About

It’s about competing, having fun, and getting awards with these wonderful foundation bred horses.

You’ll find us all having a good time around the show and doing our personal best in the pen. We’re not showing for the money – there’s no paybacks or big purses waiting for us at the end of our run. We’re happy enough to celebrate the best cow horse to look through a bridle, take our ribbon when we win one, and hope we’re doing well enough to win some year end awards. 

Come out and give it a try. 

MI-FQHR Welcome Packet

MI-FQHR Membership Form

 

The purpose of the Foundation Quarter Horse Registry is to preserve, protect, and perpetuate the working cow horse bloodlines of the Foundation Quarter Horse. The registry is based on the foundation bloodlines of the American Quarter Horse. Therefore, the FQHR recognizes those horses listed in the first five studbooks (first 27,000 horses registered) as foundation bred.
Most individuals carrying 75% foundation blood are eligible for registration. No registered Thoroughbreds may be closer than the fourth generation. Those families known to carry H.Y.P.P are not eligible for registration regardless of generation or testing.

Description of the Foundation Quarter Horse

The Foundation Quarter Horse is easily recognized by his body shape and unique conformation. He is more horse for  the height than is found in any other breeds. Built low to the ground, much of the time he does not exceed fifteen hands, but due to his build will often weigh twelve hundred pounds or more. The pattern of his muscle adorns nearly every part of his body.

There is his small alert ear, wide set honest bright eye that windows his great intelligence and kindness, bulging jaw, neck of moderate length joined low into his sloping shoulder, topped by a well defined wither. A short back with strong loin, deep barrel with long underline, well sprung ribs with great heart girth.

The space between the forlegs is ample to supply for a wide, well developed chest, while the forearms, gaskins, and hind quarters carry the muscle that separates the Foundation Quarter Horse from all others. Seen from the rear the power filled stifles are wider than the croup.

The bones of the Foundation Quarter Horse are trim, dense, and sturdy. His rugged frame is necessary to support the bulk that provides his strength. The cannon bones are short and flat set above strong pasterns. The foot is deep with open heel, well rounded with sufficient size. When under observation, the animal displays his divine design..

-Dillion Shook