Meet our horses

Andy and Kelly are our main funeral coach horses. Andy is a spry 28 year old, Kelly is 15. 

Andy was purchased from a Montana ranch in 2007.  He is an older gentleman, but you would never know. He has lots of spunk and loves to tell Kelly what to do. He wont hesitate to tell her she is being too slow. 

Kelly was acquired from dear friends in Louisiana. She is one of the sweetest souls you will ever come across. Do you hear of how mares can be, well, difficult? Not Kelly, she is a doll. 

This picture is of Andy and Kelly transporting Deputy Garafola's body in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 

Andy and Kelly work approximately 75 days a year. 

Rough was purchased from our Amish friends in Michigan in 2015.

Rough is a 15 year old gelding. He is like Kelly, nothing but love in his heart. There is nothing rough about him. He is sweet and wouldn't hurt a fly. Wonderful around children and so kind to everyone. 

Jared was purchased from a friend of ours in North Carolina. He was a training horse for green horses to learn how to drive. This boy is nothing but heart and work. He will give you your all. 

This picture is of us after doing a funeral, one of our motorcycle escort friends is spraying down the horses to cool them off.

Rough and Jared work approximately 75 days a year.

Woodrow and Perry are our biggest team of horses. Ike is 19.3h and 2300 lbs. Perry is 19.2 and also 2300 lbs.

Woodrow is so kind. Has wonderful manners and is very aware of his size and is careful to not push or hurt anybody. 

Perry is the one horse we don't own. Perry is owned by our friends in Louisiana, where Kelly came from. We have begged to buy him numerous times over the years, but they refuse. We can use him all we want though, and we are so honored they trust us with him. He is also a babe, a big snuggle bug.

Woodrow and Perry also work about 75 days a year.

Buck and Sam are our smallest team of horses, topping out at 16h. They are like driving a roadster compared to the big horses. They are quick and tight. These horses are so much fun to be around. 

Sam and Buck were purchased from another small carriage company, like ourselves, in East Texas. They are both 15 years old and are full brothers.

These horses look so similar, it is hard for us to tell them apart sometimes. Sam has spots. He has lots of attitude, but is always in your back pocket looking for love.

Buck is a great riding horse and is so sweet. Sam pushes him around and he loves Sam so much, he doesn't care. 

These horses work approximately 40 days a year.

Mark is the black horse pictured and was the first horse we purchased for the carriage company in 2003. He was 3 years old then. Mark is a clown. He will lick you like a dog, he will prank you whenever he can. Mark lays down a lot, he scares a lot of people because he loves to lay down to sleep. You can lay on top of him, we even work on his shoes while he is laying down. He doesn't care. Another thing about Mark, he is lazy. He will do as little work as possible, unless it is something that will irritate his two legged or four legged friends - then he will go to all kinds of efforts to complete his task.

Stache was purchased in 2010 from Michigan. He is the only horse we ever bought sight unseen and boy did we pay for it. He had all kinds of lameness issues. We spent thousands and thousands of dollars to fix him. We haven't kept track, because it the total amount would probably give us a heart attack. He is probably the most expensive horse in our barn. But know, he is fine now and has no lameness issues. Stache is all business. He is not a love bug, he just wants to work. Poor Stache has to put up with Mark and his shenanigans. But it works. Mark will actually walk along while Stache does all the work. 

Stache and Mark work approximately 20 days a year. 

Salt and Pepper were given to us in 2008. Their owners heard we love percherons, how well we take care of our horses and asked if we could take them on. Their owners fell on hard times 

Salt and Pepper were extremely thin. Salt at the time was 30 years old. We didn't think he would recover, but he did. It took two years to build his weight back up. Salt and Pepper are probably the best driving horses we have. Yes, Salt is very old. But he has so much pep. We might drive them for 4 hours a year, otherwise they live on pasture. 

Pepper is about 16 years old now. He loves Salt with all his heart. They are always side by side. We worry about him when Salt dies. We can't seem to get him to bond with another horse. He only loves Salt. 

Pictured is Salt. Picture was taken January 8, 2019. Vets estimate him being around 39 years old. 

Note: We lost Salt in 2020. He was 40 years old. He is buried on our place and has left a huge hole in our hearts. Pepper is doing well and is bonding with a new mare named Belle.