Welcome To Silverado's Colt Company
Some might say, in that great year of 1958 (Conway Twitty's "It's Only Make Believe") I was born on the back of a horse. I can remember back as far as two-years-old, waving at my mom and dad from the back of the nieghbor's horse as they drove off in the pouring rain and me still on the horse, riding round and round in the corral when they returned. As a youth, I couldn't wait to get off the school bus, from what I thought at the time was was a huge waste of my time...(school). My main concern was grounded more closely to the idea of getting out to the barn and bridling up my horse and best friend, "Scotty." We'd ride bareback across the prairies for hours and hours together. My days at school were filled with day dreams of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. Then came adulthood and the dreams stopped or did they? An injury to my back had and has made it impossible to ride anymore but my love for horses never diminished and as the song say's ....

"The Dream Never Dies, Just The Dreamer"
Becoming A Breeder!
The dream of owning horses started again around 1995, when me and my family lived in Urban Saskatchewan (City of Saskatoon), there was a rural acreage development created, called Casa Rio. At the time we had no economic means of buying into this project but on a weekly basis my wife, Cindy and I would throw the family into our SUV and tour the project, all the while, stopping along the side of the road and getting out with the family and petting the horses over the fence. We watched as the development grew into beautiful homes, stables and white rail fences, then stocked with horses (mainly APHA horses) so for sure our initial interest was in paints.

While still living in town, I joined the APHA, reading and researching my way to the basic principles and understanding, sometimes being the brunt of friendly ridicule and jokes from friends and family, mostly all in fun. However in 2000, we purchased 17 acres in the project, though still knowing that financially, building a home on the land was a stretch for us, let alone fencing, building shelters, etc.

Still determined to own horses we pursued another piece of land (100 acres) about 12 minutes from Saskatoon and set out to sell the land at Casa Rio. We sold the first piece, bought the second and created our own development, called Silverado Estates. Bound and determined to own horses, I soon found out that starting our own subdivision had its problems. So many start up costs once again put owning horses on the back burner.
However, in 2003 we met a girl named, "Jennifer" who lived down the road from us. She had a AQHA "Chex That Out" filly out of her "Solanos Peppy San" NRHA money earning mare. Jennifer agreed to sell the filly for 50% down and for the remaining balance in the spring of 2004. We thought we'd won the lottery! Purchasing that first filly was the best thing we ever did, even though we had no where to house the horse yet, it gave us the opportunity to learn from someone new who had years of experience with raising horses. Plus, she no doubt earned every penny of the sale of that filly to us by sharing her knowledge with us over the next few years.
By spring of 2004 we purchased a 60' round pen, but we did not yet have a horse trailer. So, we walked the filly home to Silverado Estates, all the while thinking that we were finally in the horse buisiness.

Although we no longer own that little AQHA filly, she was a definite positive start for our program which is currently home in Carberry MB Canada. We purchased this gorgeous 54 acre parcel in the heart of Manitoba in 2007 and proceeded to erect a home, shelters, fencing etc. We have future plans to build a foaling stable and stallion Barn to house our broodmare band which consists of own daughters of Wimpys Little Step, Nu Chex To Cash, Solanos Peppy San, two full sisters of Topsail Whiz, and a granddaughter of Mr Gunsmoke. One could say that we put the horses in front of the cart, as I believe in the power of the mares for our future, not buildings.

Silverado Colt Company mares are carefully selected with the main criteria being that they are of sound minds and disposition. Being that we are city folk gone country, we want mares that we can handle without any worry of injury and we have them! Along with disposition, other criteria is dependent on the eye. We want horses that are sound conformation wise, which we accomplished 10 fold with each and every one. As well as disposition and conformation, their lineage and papers need to read like a who's who of the Reining and Performance Horse industry which again we firmly believe we have accomplished.

Finally the biggest decision of all, whether or not all our mares had to be performers and producers. Once again another lady, this time from Texas, took some of her valuable time one afternoon and gave me some sound advice when she told me, "It's not necessarily as important what the mares have won themselves but how their offspring perform in the show pen. That is most important."

On that advice we set out to purchase our broodmare band with some of them being great NRHA earners and producers and some of which we will have to prove their offspring in the future. We then carefully selected to breed these mares to proven stallions who were or are incredible athletes themselves such as, Wimpys Little Step, Custom Crome, Pistol & Legend, Matt Dillon Dun It, Hang Ten Surprize, Who Whiz It, and Chocolate Chic Olena"to name a few.

This past year in 2008 we set out to purchase our own stallion prospect and our search ended in Nevada with the purchase of a gorgeous 2-year-old, own son of Whiz N Custom, sired by Million Dollar Sire and Hall Of Famer, Custom Crome X Whiz N Darlin by 6 Million Dollar sire, Topsail Whiz!, who is in training with Natalie Weichel in Sask. Canada and will keep you posted on this site as the show season commences for 2009.
We wish to thank many people along the way, for their endless support in giving a helping hand, and others, for answering our what sometimes seemed like trivial questions, but always gracious enough to answer them with the most notables being ....

Jennifer Balon - Saskatoon SK., Canada

Natalie Weichel at Whispering Sands Training Centre - White City SK., Canada

Irmgard Geul at Nedpoint Quarter Horses - Oklahoma, USA

Brent Loeske at Green Valley Ranch - Texas, USA

Brian & Vicki Braun at The Braun Ranch - Sask, Canada

Steve Simon at Quarter Mount Farms - Oklahoma, USA

Kit Cosper at Double Run Farms - North Carolina, USA

Dr Cyndi Kasper at CK Equine Mobile Services - Winnipeg MB, Canada

Eldon Hamilton - Carberry MB., Canada

I wish to dedicate this site to my wife and partner of 28 years, Cindy and to our wonderful children, Presley and Aimee Smith, Priscilla and Jordan Dunlop, Crystal Smith and the loves of our life, our grandchildren, Kendrah and Cole all without whom this dream would have not been possible. Thanks for believing!

We invite all who are shopping for their next performance horse prospect to search our site or stop by anytime to see what's available!

Thank You,

Kevin & Cindy Smith