Our Mission

W e started out in 1997 strictly as a show and training program, finding and training off the track Thoroughbreds, as Warmbloods were mostly a European fixture at the time. With the opportunities to see what the Hanoverian breed was accomplishing at the highest level of jumping and dressage competition, Silverhorne bred its own show mares and began to acquire imported mares and performance testing them in the USA.  In consultation with both Germans here and abroad, Silverhorne sought out the best quality jumping blood that was attainable for its intended purpose of providing well raised imported bloodlines for the American show competition market.

As the years progressed, we saw a need to train our young horses specifically for the needs of the American rider. Out of this our Horse Development program was born. The primary focus of this approach is to start youngsters, develop them and build a foundation for effective and successful horse/rider partnerships for the competitive rider.

In the end, our hope is to develop horses that are confident, happy in their work and readily cooperative and responsive to their riders. In the process, their bodies develop to maximize the conformational advantages they inherited from their carefully-paired parents.