Miller Quarter Horses Relocates To Texas
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34 – January/February, 2025
By Megan Sacia Ulrich
There’s a new family in the town of Boerne, Texas– Keith and Sydney Miller of Miller Quarter Horses. In a 1300-mile cross country move, the family of four– which includes Charlotte, age 8, and Lincoln, age 6–said a bittersweet goodbye to their Reidsville, North Carolina farm and put down roots at Corrival Ranch in December.
The Millers are a bit of a Cinderella story. Keith grew up riding backyard horses on his grandfather’s farm and later putting miles on ponies that he’d then take to the sale barn. While there, others would offer him two or three dollars to ride their sale horses through the pen, so up into their saddle he’d go. A 4-H leader later connected him to a Quarter Horse trainer, and he was soon “completely infatuated with the Quarter Horse industry,” he says. As a teen he worked for a vet and recalls devouring the pages of the Quarter Horse Journal on his lunch breaks, reading it cover to cover and, before age 20, he’d given up his amateur card to make horses a full-time job.
As a little girl, Sydney also learned to ride at her grandfather’s farm. Her mom’s family attended local open shows and introduced her to the show pen. As her interest and talent grew, her parents lovingly kept advancing her upward, eventually into the breed shows.
Their stories collided at a 2001 horse show in York Spring, Pennsylvania, where they were both showing. At the time, Keith was just 18 and working as an assistant trainer. “I was super impressed with his work ethic even at that young of an age. That wasn’t and isn’t always the norm!” Sydney remembers. “I was drawn to the fact that he was–and has always been–just a great guy. There’s not a better human out there.”
The pair dated for eight years, during which Keith began training on his own in 2004. They married in Mexico in 2009. Fifteen years later “and we still like each other!” Keith jokes.
Off To An Amazing Start
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