About Us
We are a mother (Carol Bonner) and daughter (Anna Collins) team based out of Polson, MT. Our ranch is snuggly located in the mountains on the southwestern shore of the Flathead Lake on 21 acres.
Originally we began in Los Angeles, CA but decided we needed open pastures to ensure optimum health and growth for our babies so we re-located to MT. Montana provides the space for them to run and makes the horses deal with the elements of winter much like the original trakenhners did in Prussia.
Anna has been riding for 15 years in many disciplines including Dressage, Endurance, Jumping, Western, and Natural Horsemanship. She has been training people and horses in Dressage and showing for 8 years. She has also ridden Quadrille for 7 years and was the 2001 national champion with her team The Riding Company (Click here to view championship photos).
She has been studying the Trakehner breed since she was 15 when she got her first Trakehner, Top Priority who the farm is named after. After purchasing her first Trakehner she knew this was the breed for her & later chose a career as a Trakehner breeder.
She has also done a small apprenticeship in Germany at Gestut Hamelschenburg with the Langels family and was able to work with their spectacular stallions and learn more about the breed.
She is also one of the youngest active members of the ATA.
Carol has been riding Endurance, Trail, and English for 25 years with several breeds including Throroughbreds, Arabians, Quarter Horses, and Apaloosa’s. She fell in love with the Trakehner breed when she purchased Top Priority for Anna.
She also became very intrigued by the breed due to their history of being a very adequate endurance horse.
Carol has entered several 25 mile endurance rides with her Arabians and has placed well in all events.
Our goal as breeders is to create the next generation of Trakehners. We want to improve the breed even further and extend the knowledge of the breed to all horse people so they will think of the breed when they plan to purchase their next horse or for breeding. We never want to hear another horse person say “What’s a Trakehner?”
We also want to get some impeccable bloodlines into the breed from our wonderful mares Ogellee, Ossette, Onora and Liana by matching them up to perfect stallions.
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