Capital Quarter Horses, LLC and Rusty Green Show Horses Unveil New Partnership
By: Brittany Bevis
For the past four years, Capital Quarter Horses, LLC, and Rusty Green Show Horses have enjoyed tremendous success together with Western Pleasure mounts like Only Ever After, Only A Breeze, Whatscookingoodlookin, No Doubt I’m Trouble, and For One Night Only earning numerous accolades including back-to-back World Championships and many Congress and Futurity titles.
Now, they have decided to take their client-trainer relationship in a slightly different direction by merging into one entity Susan Roberts likes to describe as a “small, close-knit group of clients and professionals.”
“The reason we decided to do a merger is that we were moving to Pilot Point, and it makes the most sense to run our breeding program out of our own facility,” she says. “To consolidate that program and Rusty’s training operation into one facility just seemed to be the right idea.”
“We started looking in the Pilot Point/Aubrey area to find a piece of property. We came across a wonderful property on Saint John road and decided to go ahead and build our own facility. We plan to start a breeding program with our mares and possibly grow our broodmare band. Eventually, we may include studs.”
The first discussion about a possible partnership began just prior to the All American Quarter Horse Congress last year. “We were just talking at dinner one night [about the new property],” Roberts says. “We said, ‘why don’t we do this together?’ We were just laughing about it, but then Katie said it was actually a really good idea. That’s how it all started. We discussed it a little before the Congress, but we hadn’t made any big decisions yet.”
“Rusty will be keeping all of his clients and, when our facility is finished, they will move everything to our facility. We will be working out of the property on Saint John road, and we’re building a breeding barn, a show barn, a big arena, and a house. We’ve also hired breeding manager Jeanne Schneiter. I think, with the people we’ve got so far, everybody gets along so well. I think it will be a really great thing for everybody.”
The new partnership found their most recent success at the 2015 Arizona Sun Circuit, where Rusty Green piloted For One Night Only to a win in Open 3-Year-Old Western Pleasure. Hillary Roberts also rode “Sid” to a win in Non-Pro Three-Year-Old Western Pleasure, and Susan Roberts showed Sid to claim a circuit champion title in Select Western Pleasure. Then, Roberts piloted No Doubt I’m Trouble, aka “Danica,” to a third place finish in the Non-Pro Three-Year-Old Western Pleasure as well.
Looking ahead into 2015, the Roberts family is excited about the construction of their new facility, a blossoming partnership with their good friends, Rusty and Katie Green, and looking forward to the debut of new horses on the horizon.
“We will have six babies this year, four of which have been born already,” she says. “Then, this coming year, we will have the first two-year-old by Whatscookingoodlookin, named I Kissed The Cook. ‘Snookie’ will make her debut this year in Two-Year-Old Western Pleasure.”
We would like to congratulate the Roberts family and Rusty Green Show Horses on their new partnership and wish them the very best of luck with the venture for many years to come.
