Stuart Ranch is the oldest ranch under continuous family ownership in Oklahoma! We’ve been around since 1868, and we have no plans to step away from our 150+ year calling anytime soon.

Just as the Stuart Ranch is a generational family operation, the decision was made, decades ago, to develop our horse program with the same goals. Therefore, it would fall to our broodmares to develop and perpetuate the legacy of the Seven S horses. In a breeding program, it falls to the next generation to be better than the last; our goals have never varied. We want a sound, athletic, pretty horse - a versatile horse not targeting a specific discipline, but a horse talented enough to perform in a variety of arenas. Good backs, good feet and legs, pretty heads, cinch up deep - all traits we value and work to keep.

By choosing our broodmares over a stallion, we know these mares as all have been ridden. We know their colts and we have a good idea of where they will fit in our industry. Our broodmares are evolving into the 6th, 7th, and 8th generation raised on the ranch. We try to select stallions with outstanding mothers, ones that have produced multiple offspring of excellence. Our goal is to use stallions whose daughter we are willing to put back into our broodmare band. Another goal is to have colts of multiple mares consistently performing at high levels, rather than multiple colts out of one mare. The decision has been one that certainly has had failures and some years the colt crop just wasn’t as good as we had hoped. We always have shown what we raised.

Today it is our opinion that we have the quality and consistency of horses that will perform strongly and competitively in all disciplines of the horse and ranching industry. All Seven S colts are ranching-heritage eligible, and we have chosen to breed to “Buckle” stallions. Our program will continue to evolve as our goal to produce quality sound horses with a generational legacy will remain. We believe in breeding horses that will fit our industry now and in the future.