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BEST REMUDA AWARD
To honor the contributions that ranch horses have made to the heritage of the American Quarter Horse, the American Quarter Horse Association and Bayer Animal Health present to you the BEST REMUDA AWARD. The award began in 1992 and has since recognized several outstanding ranches for their efforts in raising American Quarter Horses, an important tool of their trade. Any ranch that has five or more American Quarter Horse mares used to produce horses for ranch work and is a member of AQHA is eligible for this award. We encourage you to nominate your ranch or a ranch you feel would be deserving of the BEST REMUDA AWARD. WINNERS OF THE BEST REMUDA AWARD 2007 S RANCH, LTD - BILLINGS, MONTANA
The Cogdell family has made a name for itself in two areas - ranch horses and cutting horses. Read more about Tule Ranch in the November issues of America's Horse magazine.
2005 BABBITT RANCHES - FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA Established in 1886, Babbitt Ranches is one of the largest and most historic ranches in Arizona. Read more about Babbitt Ranches in the November issue of America's Horse magazine.
Douglas Lake Cattle Company is a town of itself. It has a store, post office, school and church. It’s also the largest ranch in Canada. Read more about the Douglas Lake Cattle Company
Almost everyone’s vision of a desert is that of a dry, sandy area, almost void of vegetation and with unrelenting heat. That’s not necessarily so — especially in the winter and early spring. Read more about the Lacey Livestock Company
Henry Green said that when his father stepped down from the train, he was the maddest man that Henry had ever seen. And the thing about it, he was mad at Henry. Read more about the W.H. Green Cattle Company
The Van Norman Ranches of Tuscarora, Nevada are a cow, calf and stocker operation, along with a farming enterprise in Independence Valley, some fifty miles north of Elko. The Van Norman family is a steward of the land and prides itself in continuing the traditions set forth by their parents and grandparents, the late Charlie and Della Van Norman. Read more about the Van Norman Ranches
When Frank Springer topped a rise and looked down on the little village of Cimarron, New Mexico, in February 1873, two things immediately struck him -- the snow-covered peaks to the west, and the rolling short grass prairies to the east. It was a beautiful sight to a young man from Iowa, who had come west the year before as a lawyer for the Maxwell Land Grant. Read more about the C S Cattle Company
It’s no accident that Bogle Ltd. was named the winner of last year’s Best Remuda Award. They planned for it.
The 118-year old Pitchfork Ranch breeds good horses by necessity, because no modern convenience can take their place in rugged terrain. Read more about the Pitchfork Land & Cattle Company
When R.A. (Rob) Brown Jr.'s grandfather established his Throckmorton, Texas, ranch in 1903, one of the first things he did was to make sure he had some top horses. He had been in the cattle business since 1895, and he knew the value of a good cow horse. Read more about the R.A. Brown Ranch
For more than a century, the Barby family has made its living on horseback, herding cattle on the sprawling Bar B Ranch, east of Beaver, Oklahoma. Read more about the Bar B Ranch
The oldest family ranch in Oklahoma doesn't rest on historical markers or tradition. Stuart Ranch, carved out of Indian Territory in 1868, is in the midst of a renaissance, a rebirth, thanks to strategic efforts by the Stuart family and ranch personnel. Read more about the Stuart Ranch
Turning back through the pages of Texas horse history, it may be said that in his time, (W.T. Waggoner) owned or used most of the great Texas horses of his day. Read more about the Waggoner Ranch
Raising good ranch horses was always a goal with Samual Burk Burnett, legendary founder of the Four Sixes Ranch. He found his calling early, and joined his father in the cattle business in Denton County, Texas when Burk was only 19 years old. Read more about the 6666 Ranch
Few ranches in America today are as reliant on horses as the Haythorn Land & Cattle Company. Others are bigger, land-wise, but the Haythorn is the largest breeder of American Quarter Horses in the United States.
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Remuda: "Group of working horses bred for the ranch specifically to work and pen cattle." 
2006 TULE RANCH - TULIA, TEXAS
2004 DOUGLAS LAKE CATTLE COMPANY - DOUGLAS LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA
 
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