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Welcome to the home of the largest genetic collection of TWHBEA Supreme Versatility Champion lineage.
At TangleWoods Walkers, we strive to produce the very animal we fell in love with: the versatile, naturally gaited, phenomenally dispositioned Tennessee Walking Horse.
I always feel the need to start at the very beginning, but I suppose many of you might care less about where we started, and more about what we have! For those of you who would like to know where started, please visit:
The short version...
We started with two TWH geldings out of Ponca City, Oklahoma. Norma Lee Grimsley of Stonewall Walkers bred them both. A feisty little woman with a passion for small horses from great bloodlines.
We spent a few years trying others, always coming up with horses who possessed a great propensity for pace. I spent a couple of years buying into the idea that it could be fixed. We bought one by a World Grand Champion who, as a friend in the industry put it, "paced the worst pace, to ever pace a pace that was a pace." I later found he had gone through two gaited trainers, who didn't have a lot of luck with him. I got him in a 4 beat gait, but not without a LOT of work and heavy shoeing.
There HAS to be an easier way, right? Enter Ann & Bob Kuykendall of Windy Hill Farm in Muskogee, OK. I had several friends who rode their horses on the trail, including the person who got us into TWH in the first place. Our friend Tom sent us to meet Ann and their horses. It was love at first sight. We bought every breedable mare they had, I couldn't let all Ann's hard work disappear.
Our versatility program is over 50 years old. Our mares go back to generations of the Kuykendall's famous lineage. You will not find another program with as many Supreme Versatility Champion lineage- it does not exist. Each one of our mares carries a minimum of 2 TWHBEA Supreme Versatility Champions. Our stallion comes from another private breeder who produced amicable trail and pleasure horses.
If you are looking for the ride of your life, you have found the right place. Not only do our horses possess the gaits that made the breed famous, they have the charisma, disposition, and versatility to do anything you wish. ANYTHING.
Below you will find the pedigrees, personal stories, and photos of our beloved herd
The Oklahoma Drifter
2019 TWHBEA Stallion
Biloxi Carbon Blues x MG Gold (Gen's Major General)
With an incredible story, that would make quite a Disney movie, The Oklahoma Drifter shows the athletic ability and natural gait we needed. He also carries a cream gene to produce buckskins, palominos, and smoky blacks. TOD has working horse conformation, color, and athleticism.
Barbara's Amazing Grace
2019 TWHBEA Mare
Gold Powered Jackson Blue x Barbara Ann Genius
A filly, who was never to be, stole my heart years before she was born. Her father possesses a wonderful disposition that he throws tremendously. Her dam goes back to SVC Good Friday K, through his son SVC Marauder K, and possessing strong Harlinsdale lineage. Her mother is a giant black beauty with "the best running walk" Ann Kuykendall has ever ridden. Now that's high remarks! Big dreams for this girl!
Pusher's Cookie Jane
2007 TWHBEA Mare
Senor Pusher x Good Friday's Cookieshine
A mare of perfect size, she comes from the late, great Good Friday's Cookieshine. Cookie was not only a great show horse, she possessed a phenomenal disposition that stole hearts everywhere she went. PCJ shows this same disposition with kindness and poise. She is the embodiment of our program.
Roxann Genius
2019 TWHBEA Mare
Gold Powered Jackson Blue x Barbara Ann Genius
A filly, who was never to be, in her second coming. Her father possesses a wonderful disposition that he throws tremendously. Her dam goes back to SVC Good Friday K, through his son SVC Friday's Marauder K, and possessing strong Harlinsdale lineage. Her mother is a giant black beauty with "the best running walk" Ann Kuykendall has ever ridden. Now that's high remarks! Big dreams for this girl!
Armed Secret Treasure
2001 TWHBEA Gelding
Dangerous Calculation x Cinderella's Secret
Though he maybe a gelding, he is arguably the most influential animal here. The Patriarch of our herd, I guess you could say. He never sired a foal, but he has left a giant impression on us, our ranch, and our dreams.