SMOKEY RIVER SPORTHORSES

Smoky River Sport Horses is a family based business located in Bezanson, approximately 30 minutes east of Grande Prairie, Alberta near the beautiful Smoky River Banks.

Here we have been breeding and raising horses for over 40 years, using our natural location as the perfect place for training and breeding quality horses.

Tradition: For generations our family has used horses under saddle and in harness for work, competition, or pleasure.

We have put extensive time and miles on our horses resulting in well-trained horses that have been exposed to a vast variety of tasks, obstacles and challenging terrain. It become obvious early on, that only the best type of horses (horses with superior endurance, soundness, and stamina, along with willing temperaments and courageous nature) could handle this type of work. This invaluable training and these attributes go a long way toward producing successful competition horses. We have furthered our goal by adding top bred horses with tremendous athletic ability to our breeding program. After a great deal of research, and carefully selected bloodlines we have added the renowned Trakehner breed and other carefully selected bloodlines to our existing warmblood influences.

Another reason we sought out the Warmbloods and Trakehner, is that all breeding stock has to undergo rigorous grading, evaluation, and tests to be approved, for example, only about 4% of all Trakehner colts born ever pass to become an approved stallion. These evaluations are what maintains the Trakehner's high standards. We are now producing purebred Trakehners, Performance Horse, CWHBA, CSHA, ATA, and mixed blood horses.