VAN GILDER ARABIANS, LLC

Dedicated to breeding quality CMK Arabians

WELCOME TO OUR RANCH

WELCOME to our website.  We are located in North Central Oregon , amongst the wheat fields and windmills.

We encourage you to get a cup of coffee and spend some time looking through our website with its many photos of CMK Arabians and articles in the Food for Thought section.  We try to keep the site updated on a regular basis, so please check back to see what is new. 

 Please take a moment to sign our GuestBook.  Thank you.

8/3/09 I just updated the HOME Page, TRAIL PAGE, SALE PAGE page, the FOAL 2009 page. Check it out!

CELEBRATING 60 YEARS!!

 

I wish to send out a BIG THANK YOU  to all to everyone who came from near and far to our open barn.  We enjoyed meeting everyone and showing our horses to you.  The Symposium in Redmond went very well also and I heard many positive comments from people attending.  When I get some pictures together, I will share them here!

CMK, Crabbet related, Early American Foundation, Domestic, American Foundation, Kellogg related... all these terms help describe our horses. We have stayed true to our vision of a great riding horse.  We have primarily stayed with Crabbet, Maynesboro and Kellogg lines, with the ABU FARWA sons, MUHULI, FARLANE , GA'ZI and grandsons, ABU MALACAR, IBN FARLANE, SARAT THANI, and KILAUEA FIRE  having great influence in our breeding program. 

We breed for disposition, conformation, athleticism, and last but NOT least, for the preservation of old unique (CMK) bloodlines. We believe our stallions worth lies in the quality of their get as well as their pedigree.

 

1000 MILES - KILAUEA FASHION, the wonder mare, who likes to write stories of her adventures, has a "grand" story to tell!  Follow her story on her first 1000 AERC miles.  Check it out, here!

KILAUEA FASHION has done it again!  She has written another delightful story "Straight from the Horses Mouth" in the Food For Thought section.  Check it out.

 

*On our list of horses, I have mark some horses I would consider selling or leasing.  Check it out on our list of horses.  Please check in often and see what is happening on the ranch.

 

 

OSU DIAMOND AWARD

OSU DIAMOND PIONEER AWARD (2007) (click on red title)Well, it has only taken me a year to get the link to the DIAMOND PIONEER AWARD that went to my parents, ARTHUR AND MARJORIE VAN GILDER (pictured in below,dressed in blue)along with 36 other men and woman. 

MISSION

We, as preservationists, breed first to produce a good horse rather than a narrow type.  We seek the same characteristics which have governed horse breeding for centuries, in 444 BC Xenophon said, “. . . care must be taken that the colt is gentle, tractable, and fond of man when he is sent to the horse-trainer.”  We know it is the same today; a good temperament is of first importance.  We strive in our breeding program for the age-old hallmarks of all good horses:  balanced conformation; strong bone; expressive eyes; prominent nostrils to drink the wind.  We have, over many years,proven our horses' worth in rigorous performance competition. We strive to produce horses of such temperament, soundness, and athleticism a Bedouin of yesterday would entrust his life to them.