LUSK RANCH

We had the pleasure of spending this Father's Day with Glenn,Tammy, Glenn's parents Durphy & Dot and the rest of the family! (Great food!!)

Below is a picture of one their rice fields!

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Zone Again, foaled here at Lusk Ranch, won again going wire to wire on May 15th at Lone Star Park. Here is the win picture.

Thursday, April 9, 2009 is a day that will not soon be forgotten here at the Ranch and all across Montague County. Lusk Ranch was caught by fast moving wildfires that devastated thousands of acres, many homes, equipment and livestock. Three people also lost their lives. 

We lost three barns, including our Stud barn and Grande's Grandslam; two training barns with 10 Thoroughbred's in training; over 50+ years of tack and equipment collected from John and his father Paul; our two horse trailers; tractors and misc. other items we haven't even accounted for.  This is a horrible loss for us and the entire county. 

We have wonerful friends who came out Friday, Saturday, & Sunday to assist in the removal and burying of our Family Members (that's what all our horses are to us!) Many that we lost were horses that John and I bred, help foal, and watched them grow and excell into what we believed to be great athletes. Sad thing is we were set to take the first group in training to Lone Star this week to start the process of getting them ready to enter to race. 

We have cried many hours over this loss of family. We have been through many hard times in the last few years and really believed things were working in our favor. God has plans that we can't control. But we know that this can not and will not hinder our faith and knowledge that we will make it through this time. 

We will continue with the promise we made to John's dad, Paul, before he died. And that was to give Lusk Ranch the chance to race again.  It may take a little longer now but we will keep going. Right now, we are trying to remove debris and hopefully will find someway to rebuild a barn to start again! 

Our 11 beautiful babies were buried in the middle of our training track so that they could keep an eye on our training and be there with us in spirit always! Thank you for your many kind words and prayers, that is what is keeping John and I going. If you would like to send a note, please email johnlusk@luskranch.com

God Bless!

John & "K"   Lusk Ranch

Photo: Paul Broussard, April 10, 2009

(Standing in front of house looking up towards 2 barns, 2 storage trailers, equipment, etc. 

Juan and wife, Elizabeth, have become part of the Lusk Ranch familly. Juan started in January 2009. We have 6 Thoroughbreds of Racing Age (2 by Grande's Grandslam & 2 by Pvt. Lynch) in the barn and are training daily.

We have 6 yearlings in the process of being registered and starting training.  All foals for sale. Foals of 2009 by Grande's Grandslam are Texas Stallion Stakes Nominated.

Check back soon for info and photos of Track Training!   

GRANDE'S GRANDSLAM

2001 Bay by Grandslam

Died along with 11 other horses on April 9, 2009.

Lusk Ranch now stands:
Helluvahullabaloo- 1999 Dark Bay/Brown Stallion by Wild Again, out of Indy Flash (by A.P. Indy)

We would like to welcome Glenn and Tammy Broussard to the Lusk Ranch family.

They are the owners of Helluvahullabaloo, a stallion by Wild Again, out of Indy Flash (by A.P. Indy). He is great looking and has a wonderful personality. 

Check out a picture of "Hullabaloo" with John and Glenn with John's Heavyweight Title Belt on his neck on the Stallion page along with his pedigree.

Lusk Ranch is now accepting mares to breed to the great Stallion.

 Pictured below are Christopher, John and Glenn and Candy and Tammy (holding the  HeavyWeight Title Belt). Taken the day they brought Hullabaloo to the Ranch.