Rabboni Reining Horses opens for business...

Garth Brown and Vittorio Rabboni are proud to announce the grand opening of Rabboni Reining Horses, in conjunction with Brown Performance Horses. The facility is located on 150 acres in Valley View, Texas, nestled in the heart of Horse County.

NRHA Open Derby Champion Brown is the trainer of the operation, which develops Reining prospects for sale, as well as older finished horses. Rabboni hails from Reggioemilla, Italy, and owns the operation. He stays in touch constantly and visits the farm every couple months. The goal for Rabboni Reining Horses is to sell top quality Reining horses, and all horses will be for sale.

“We won’t hold anything back to show,” says Brown. “If it happens that we don’t sell before a show, we’ll still show the horse.”

The Rabboni Reining Horses facility is the perfect place for prospects to reach their full potential. The facilities include:

• 130 x 275 feet indoor arena, 200 x 400 feet outdoor track
• 150 feet outdoor cattle round pen
• 24 stall show barn, 15 stall general use barn
• 20 acres of lake

Despite the large number of stalls, Brown and Rabboni are cautious to only have 15-20 two-year-olds in training, along with a few older horses. “We’re dealing in high quality prospects, not high quantities,” says Brown. “This is a hands-on operation; I am working the horses myself.”

The ultimate goal of Rabboni Reining Horses is to have high quality prospects and finished horses of all prices. Everyone is invited to come and pick out their next show horse.

While the majority of the prospects will be offered for sale from the farm, some will be steered towards sales, including ranch sales. Last year, Smart Crackin Chic was sold by Brown in the National Reined Cow Horse Association’s Futurity Sale. In 2006, the Smart Chic Olena mare won the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity with Todd Crawford aboard.

A wide variety of bloodlines are offered at Rabboni Reining Horses. Some highlights include a yearling full sister to Tinsel Nic (AQHA World Champion Senior Reining), a Wimpys Little Step (NRHA Open Futurity Champion) yearling colt out of Setting Off Sparks, a Nic It In The Bud yearling filly out of a daughter of Lil Peppy and a two-year-old Reminic N Dunit colt out of Lenas Ruby Chex.