Remuda: "Group of working horses bred for the ranch specifically to work and pen cattle."
To honor the contributions that ranch horses have made to the heritage of the American Quarter Horse, the American Quarter Horse Association and Zoetis present to you the Best Remuda Award. The award began in 1992 and has since recognized several outstanding ranches for their efforts in raising American Quarter Horses, an important tool of their trade.
Any ranch that has five or more American Quarter Horse mares used to produce horses for ranch work and is a member of AQHA is eligible for this award. We encourage you to nominate your ranch or a ranch you feel would be deserving of the Best Remuda Award.
To apply for the Best Remuda Award, please request an application.
Winners of the Best Remuda Award
2012 Singleton Ranches - Lamy, New Mexico
When Henry Singleton bought the 81,000 acre San Cristobsl Ranch, south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the mid-1980s, paoiple familiar with Henry had no wonder what was going on. That purchase did not fit the pattern of business that Henry had been buying.
2011 Tongue River Ranch - Dumont, Texas
It was an ususual spring, and one like it everyone hopes not to see again soon. Dry and hot. Unusually dry and unusually hot. And windy. Of course, everyone knows the wind blows during the spring in West Texas, but every day?
2010 Spade Ranch - Lubbock, Texas
In 1889, when Isaac Ellwood stepped down from the train in the Wast Texas town of Colorado (known today as Colorado City), he knew he had come to the right place. The railroad shipping pens were full of cattle.
2009 Haythorn Ranch Co. - Maxwell, Nebraska
Howard Haythorn came to Maxwell on horseback at age 13, helping his father trail in a herd of cattle and horses to their new home.
2008 Moorhouse Ranch - Benjamin, Texas
The Moorhouse ranching tradition began in the 1800s when Edward Moorhouse raised cattle in Texas and Oklahoma’s Indian Territory. Edward’s youngest son, Togo, purchased land in the 1930s that would grow into the operation that is today Moorhouse Ranch Co.
2007 S Ranch, Ltd. - Billings, Montana
Today, the S Ranch is still owned and operated by the Scott family – John Scott Jr., John Scott III, Jim Scott, Maggie Scott Brown and Sissy Scott Croft are all general partners of the 227,000-acre ranch (including leases).
2006 Tule Ranch - Tulia, Texas
The Cogdell family has made a name for itself in two areas - ranch horses and cutting horses.
2005 Babbitt Ranches - Flagstaff, Arizona
Established in 1886, Babbitt Ranches is one of the largest and most historic ranches in Arizona.
2004 Douglas Lake Cattle Company - Douglas Lake, British Columbia
Douglas Lake Cattle Company is a town of itself. It has a store, post office, school and church. It’s also the largest ranch in Canada.
2003 Lacey Livestock Company - Paso Robles, California
Almost everyone’s vision of a desert is that of a dry, sandy area, almost void of vegetation and with unrelenting heat. That’s not necessarily so — especially in the winter and early spring.
2002 W.H. Green Cattle Company - Albany, Texas
Henry Green said that when his father stepped down from the train, he was the maddest man that Henry had ever seen. And the thing about it, he was mad at Henry.
2001 Van Norman Ranches, Inc. - Tuscarora, Nevada
The Van Norman Ranches of Tuscarora, Nevada are a cow, calf and stocker operation, along with a farming enterprise in Independence Valley, some fifty miles north of Elko. The Van Norman family is a steward of the land and prides itself in continuing the traditions set forth by their parents and grandparents, the late Charlie and Della Van Norman.
2000 CS Cattle Company- Cimmaron, New Mexico
When Frank Springer topped a rise and looked down on the little village of Cimarron, New Mexico, in February 1873, two things immediately struck him -- the snow-covered peaks to the west, and the rolling short grass prairies to the east.
1999 Bogle Ltd. - Dexter, New Mexico
It’s no accident that Bogle Ltd. was named the winner of last year’s Best Remuda Award. They planned for it. Bogle Ltd. Ranches lie in the southeast corner of New Mexico.
1998 Pitchfork Land & Cattle Company - Guthrie, Texas
The 118-year old Pitchfork Ranch breeds good horses by necessity, because no modern convenience can take their place in rugged terrain.
1997 R.A. Brown Ranch - Throckmorton, Texas
When R.A. (Rob) Brown Jr.'s grandfather established his Throckmorton, Texas, ranch in 1903, one of the first things he did was to make sure he had some top horses. He had been in the cattle business since 1895, and he knew the value of a good cow horse.
1996 Bar B Ranch - Beaver, Oklahoma For more than a century, the Barby family has made its living on horseback, herding cattle on the sprawling Bar B Ranch, east of Beaver, Oklahoma.
1995 Stuart Ranch - Caddo, Oklahoma
The oldest family ranch in Oklahoma doesn't rest on historical markers or tradition. Stuart Ranch, carved out of Indian Territory in 1868, is in the midst of a renaissance, a rebirth, thanks to strategic efforts by the Stuart family and ranch personnel.
1994 Waggoner Ranch - Vernon, Texas
Turning back through the pages of Texas horse history, it may be said that in his time, (W.T. Waggoner) owned or used most of the great Texas horses of his day.
1993 6666 Ranch - Guthrie, Texas
Raising good ranch horses was always a goal with Samual Burk Burnett, legendary founder of the Four Sixes Ranch. He found his calling early, and joined his father in the cattle business in Denton County, Texas when Burk was only 19 years old.
1992 Haythorn Land & Cattle Company - Arthur, Nebraska
Few ranches in America today are as reliant on horses as the Haythorn Land & Cattle Company. Others are bigger, land-wise, but the Haythorn is the largest breeder of American Quarter Horses in the United States.
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