Mountain Horses are what we do best at Quiet Valley Farm.
Both the RMHA and the KMSHA have established registries which require that certain standards be maintained for the breed to remain true to type. To achieve this, ALL registered horses must be examined for breed characteristics and approved by examiners prior to breeding.

We breed, raise and train registered and certified Rocky and Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horses. Our stock is foundation bred, and we focus on providing excellent trail and competitive trail horses. Many of our breeding horses are also over 15 hands and all are solidly built. 

We have orchestrated a selective breeding program for each of our stallions which ensures that this rare breed maintains it's distinctive characteristics: their gentle temperament and smooth natural gait combined with excellent health and striking beauty. It is one of the world's finest all natural breeds and can be trained for any horse related activity. They truly are the most ideal family horse, easy to keep, people oriented, confident and fun loving trail companions as well as endurance horses, they can run speed, cut cows, perform dressage and YES they can JUMP!

These horses present strength and stamina, the smoothness of a four-beat gait and the great style of its Spanish ancestry. It provides the discerning rider with a horse of superior skill, a smooth ride and great beauty. Our foals are imprinted at birth, handled daily, and kept as naturally as possible, to ensure their excellent health and vigor continues throughout their lives. We take great pride in producing the best possible family companions from the best possible stock. 

John and I Examiners for the Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse Club and are also very active with our local trail riding club, the Southern MD Trail Riders.

Our mares and stallions boast the absolute finest pedigrees in the world. Tim, Maple Squirrel, Pete and the hard to find Yankee (Ragtime) to name just a few. Between our two stallions, we have every single foundation Rocky Mountain Horse® stallion in the breed! These are REAL foundation lines that we are proud to own, breed, train, ride and occasionally sell. 

We have hand picked our 2 brood mare bands according to the individual qualities of our stallion and stud colt. We have chosen them based on their temperament, conformation, gait and color, to produce outstanding marketable foals that are premier representations of the breed. 

Most of Hondo's mares carry the cream gene, which is what makes a palomino, buckskin or smoky black and Troubadour's mares are bay and black to produce Chocolate/white, Silver Bay, Classic or Amber Champagne in addition to the base colors bay and black.

In addition to the required parentage DNA testing, we DNA color test all of our breeding stock and most foals to ensure the color identification for their registration. Color testing is also especially important as it relates to a genetic eye condition called Anterior Segmented Disgenesis (ASD), which has a suspected link to the Silver Gene which is what gives many Mountain horses that distinctive Chocolate or Red Chocolate color. All of our Chocolate/Red Chocolate foals will be single silver and have no chance of being a visually affected ASD foal.

Click here to read an extremely well written article about color as it relates to ASD by Paula Morgan from Triple S Ranch. Thank you Paula for allowing me to publicly post this!

We have all our color testing done by the Veterinary Genetics Lab at the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Their information is here: 
University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Coat color explanations:
http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/service/horse/coatcolor.html 

The Rocky Mountain Horse® was granted a Certification Mark (®) by the United States Trademark and Patent Office and is the only breed to be able to use such a mark. “THE CERTIFICATION MARK, AS USED BY PERSONS AUTHORIZED BY THE CERTIFIER, CERTIFIES THAT THE HORSES HAVE BEEN EXAMINED BY THREE CERTIFIERS AND MEETS THE CERTIFICATION STANDARDS REGARDING HEIGHT, BODY, GAIT, TEMPERAMENT AND COLOR”.

The Fleetwood Family
Quiet Valley Farm
Mechanicsville MD 20659