Check out our upcoming clinics.. More Info>>>

At Gollehon Show Horses our passion and focus is on pleasure horses...raising them, training them, showing them and selling them! We promote our own as well as customer horses. For the past 30 years we have made our living exclusively in the horse industry coaching and training in almost every event, but over the years we’ve turned our attention to what we like the best which is pleasure horses. We coach youth and amateurs plus show outside customer horses. We purposely keep our numbers down so we can do a better job with both horses and people. We show on a regional and national level at the Quarter Horse shows, NSBA as well as some of the color breed shows focusing mainly on yearling longe line and western pleasure. We have wins at the largest shows in the country including the All-American Quarter Horse Congress, ApHC World & National Championship, NSBA World Championship, Palomino World Championship, the Reichert Pleasure Celebration, Tom Powers Futurity, Southern Belle Futurity, Just For Pleasure, etc. Check out our successes in our Headlines Pages, read our Training Philosophy, etc.

We’ve been blessed with the ability to spot a diamond in the rough and have the talent to bring out its full potential which has not only been beneficial in our training program but has also helped in developing our breeding program. We absolutely love the babies and raise five to eight Quarter Horse foals a year with some of the hottest bloodlines in the industry. Our current mares are own daughters of Invitation Only, Zippos Mr Goodbar, Certain Potential, Impulsions, and Zippos RV by Zips Chocolate Chip. Our foals are by Only In The Moonlight, RL Best Of Sudden, The Invitation, A Dream Remembered, Just Me Only, Vested Assets, Ziprageous and HH Red Rock. Learn more about them on our Mares & Foals Pages. We always have young horses for sale at various ages and stages of training.

In 2008 we moved to our current location in Versailles, Kentucky taking advantage of the Kentucky Breeders Incentive Fund program expanding our breeding business. We stand a handful of stallions and offer personalized mare management. We are also a semen receiving station so mares that come here to foal can either be bred back to one of the stallions at Gollehon Show Horses or may receive semen from outside stallions. We understand the concerns of the mare and stallion owner since we’re breeders and owners ourselves and take care of outside horses as if they were our own. We offer a smaller alternative to the larger breeding farms insuring your horse won’t get lost in the crowd.

We are located on a dead end lane giving it a peaceful setting but we’re only minutes away from shopping, the Lexington Airport and the Keeneland Race Course. Everything is ’horsey’ including the names of the streets and there’s one fabulous horse place after another. With such great diversity we can have breakfast at the track in the morning, work our pleasure horses in the afternoon and watch a rodeo that night within a few miles of home. We are 30 minutes from the Lexington Horse Park, home of the 2010 World Equestrian Games and minutes from some of the most famous Thoroughbred farms in the world making this a true horseman’s destination location.

Our facility consists of two barns. The upper barn was two years old when we moved here and barely used so it’s practically new. It has 15 stalls, a heated wash rack and washroom. Each stall has a window to the outside that may be opened when the weather permits, rubber mats and a full open grate door making the horses happy, safe and comfortable. The asphalt aisle way adds greater safety and charm.

We built the lower barn in 2008 with thirty 12 x 12 stalls and three 12 x 24 foaling stalls each with a custom built stall front that not only give us a complete view of each horse but also give the horses a wonderful feeling of openness. It’s complete with an office, breeding lab, mudroom and tack room that’s over 1500 square feet and our “house” is upstairs with over 2300 square feet of living space, cathedral ceilings and a huge deck that overlooks our rolling pastures. In fact our bedroom window looks out into the barn with a view of all the stalls! Our inviting patio off the office gives you a place to sit back and relax with a view of the pastures and outdoor arena with spectacular sunsets on most evenings. In the winter months a pond and small stream line the bottom of our property adding even more beauty. Just outside of the breeding lab is a breeding mount and stocks. As horsemen all our lives, this barn is the culmination of our lifelong experience and the floor plan can’t be beat. It has truly become the place of our dreams! Farm Tour

We are the innovators of the Yearling Head Start Program, designed to give young horses a leg up on their future careers under saddle. Phase One begins with preparing them for longe line to show, sell or to determine their potential for the two year old futurities. Phase Two is our Get Ready To Ride program which is the groundwork for coming two year olds in a step by step process as they prepare for life under saddle. We not only provide that service to breeders and owners but also teach them how to do it themselves with private lessons and clinics. Our past clinics include the NSBA World Championship Show, the ApHC World Championship Show and the Hoosier Horse Fair. We hold several clinics a year at our facility in Versailles not only focusing on our yearling program but also on teaching students to better communicate with their horses under saddle. We teach what to do during the first 90 days under saddle to how to deal with problem issues with older broke horses. By popular demand an instructional video is in the works.

As a member of Team Horse & Rider since its inception in 2005, Robin has assisted the Horse & Rider Magazine with numerous articles and tips on training, sharing her knowledge and experience. She and Roger have done most of the photography for those articles as well. She has also been featured in other magazines such as Growing Up With Horses.

Years ago Robin attended a week long photography seminar conducted by renowned equine photographer Harold Campton and has been taking quality horse pictures ever since. She then taught Roger what to do when she was the one being photographed. “Our photography sideline is growing as people realize our talents. We are taking more and more photos of sale horses, show horses, etc. Contact us for more info.”