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Dan and Carol McWhirter welcome you
to Dan McWhirter Quarter Horses.
“Western Pleasure is Our Focus and Our
Passion”
Dan and Carol with their foresight
and outstanding management of breeding
programs have merited the proven status
of
Leading Breeders in the nation,
producing top prospects in the Quarter
Horse [AQHA] and Paint [APHA]
Associations.
NEW ARTICLE ONLINE
Read Christine Hamilton's article about
Miss Rebel Rita that appeared in the
November 2007 Quarter Horse Journal.
For an example of our
Designer Genes
in action,
check out this most recent story in The
American Quarter Horse Journal. The
Trapezoid, by Christine Hamilton.
Plan with a Mate,
then Mate with a Plan
As a service to our customers Dan
McWhirter Quarter Horses can assist in
selecting the most appropriate match for
your mare. Fill out our
Designer Genes for mares checklist.
Submit your mare information, photo, and
video. We will recommend one of our
stallions, based on her pedigree,
conformation, and movement.
We have
Broodmares in foal to our stallions,
and
prospects for sale of every age. We
also offer individual horses at
select sales events during the year.
Again, welcome to our online home.
Enjoy!
Dan and Carol
Announcing our
South Farm Sale!
Jim Berry, lifetime Nebraska horseman
and farrier, has very recently purchased
the McWhirter South Farm facility in
Hastings, Nebraska.
For the past three
years Jim Berry has trained all of the McWhirter youngsters to lead, tie, and
stand quietly while having their feet
trimmed.
Jim will continue to work with
the McWhirter weanlings and yearlings at
their Doniphan location, keep up with
his horseshoeing clientele and also be
accepting a few outside horses for
training in his new indoor facility.
Jim
can be reached on his cell phone at
402.366.3812.
Building an Absolute legacy
The power
of the Absolute Investment
legacy is readily recognized at the AQHA
World Show. With only 28 performing
foals, Absolute Investment is making his
mark with six
World Show qualifiers having earned
five top ten placings
- four in western riding and one in
trail.
ABSOLUTE INTENTIONS
(Absolute
Invesment x Chips Fancy Jaguar by Zips
Chocolate Chip)
2006 AQHA
World Show Junior Western Riding - sixth
place. Show by Charlie Cole and owned by
Jeff Buccello, Polo Ridge Farms,
Monmouth, OR.
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'Absolutely No Doubt'
Earned His Register of Merit!
Piloted
by Vicki and Brad Pitts in Western
Pleasure,
Absolutely No Doubt completed his
AQHA ROM this spring. He also has gotten
several first place wins in Performance
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Featured Horse For Sale |
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Sparkling Good
2006 daughter
of Good Asset! Going well
under saddle; she's tall and
still growing. |
P5 Equestrian
announces 'We are ready for breeding season in Kentucky!'
[From the desk of Brad Pitts]
It was not easy, but we made it! 
We fenced 63 acres into 5 different pastures and 5 paddocks, constructed
shelters for all pastures and paddocks, and renovated an old tobacco
barn into a beautiful 12 stall foaling barn with 16’x18’ stalls. In
addition, we built another 21 stall mare motel, a gorgeous 6 stall
heated stallion barn and a large heated collection and breeding area.
We also added a state of the art all new
breeding laboratory complete with the
most up to date equipment available.
Everything is lined with white vinyl for
easy sanitizing and cleanup.
Mares have already arrived and the stallions are settled in their new
home. We have been collecting the stallions
...read
more
Our move
is complete!
Absolute Investment and Absolute Asset
have joined the Kentucky "gold rush!"
To make
the get of Absolute Investment and
Absolute Asset conceived in 2008
eligible for the lucrative Kentucky
Breeders Incentive Fund. Dan and Carol
are standing them at
Brad and Vicki Pitts' new breeding facility, P5 Equestrian in Henderson
Kentucky. Winning Kentucky-bred horses
can earn AQHA points anywhere which will
pay big dividends.
New information
about the Kentucky Breeders Incentive
Fund.
Read more
about Absolutes in Kentucky in the
Quarter Horse Journal at the World.
Our Quarter Horse Journal 'Stallion Issue' Ad
 Click
here to view our full page ad that
appeared in the 2007 Quarter Horse
Journal's Stallion Issue.
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Bailey Pitts and Absolut
Martini Girl Come Out on Top for Their
First Congress
Bailey began showing at
Quarter Horse shows three years ago, but
did not feel she had a horse good enough
to come compete at the Congress.
Everything changed in March of this
year, when the Pitts purchased Absolut
Martini Girl.
Read more...
...more winners
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The best pleasure stallions in
the pleasure business:
Standing:
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Absolute Investment
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Absolute Asset
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Absolutely No Doubt
-
Think Im Good
Reference Stallions:
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Good Asset
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Whata Investment
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Investment Creditor
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Iota Invest
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The Invester
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The Big Investment
We are proud to have stood and
owned two stallions that have been
inducted in the NSBA Hall of Fame.
The Big Investment, in 1991, and
The Invester in 1994. The
Invester also became an AQHA Hall of
Fame Inductee in 2004. This
tradition and these bloodlines
continue with our current Stallion
lineup.
Recent Winners
ABSOLUT MARTINI GIRL
(Absolute Investment x Shes
Surely Good by Good Asset)
Look for Bailey Pitts and Absolut
Martini Girl at the 2007 AQHYA World
Show in western pleasure and
performance halter mares. Absolut
Martini Girl has also qualified for
the 2007 AQHA World Show in Jr
western pleasure and performance
halter mares. We wish them good
luck! Absolut Martini Girl is shown
under the guidance of P5 Equestrian,
Evansville, IN and will be shown at
the Congress and World with Brad and
Vicki Pitts. She has already
completed her Superior in Jr Western
Pleasure and has earned over 100
total points since March of this
year.
HES ABSOLUTELY GOOD
(Absolute Investment x
Shes
Always Good by Good Asset)
Congratulations goes out to Kim
Blyth and Hes Absolutely Good for
winning the 3-Yr-Old Non-Pro Western
Pleasure Futurity at the Oregon
Summer Classic June 25 - July 1,
2007.
...more winners
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