Palmer Performance Horses
Palmer Performance Horses is a 25 acre Breeding and Training Facility specializing in reining horses. Palmer Performance Horses is located convenient to Exit 298 of the PA Turnpike, in the rolling farmland of northwestern Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Our facilities overview:
- Each horse has it's own girth and pad each cleaned and disinfected each day.
- Horses areclipped every 2 weeks on a regular basis not just for a show.
- Tails are washed and kept in a tail bag.
- Different turn outs, depending on individual.
- Good Hay raised on the farm
- Game Ready available to each horse
- Great outdoor track groomed everyday with Kiser drag
- Indoor arena attached to barn, groung groomed everyday
- Projected 2010 increase Indoor arena size and add viewing room
- Located in beautiful Chester County, 40 minutes from Philadelphia City and airport
- Five minutes from good hotels and restuarants
- Supplements given as needed to each individual
Matt Palmer
Born to ride…..Matt received his first pony at age 1….and his first ribbon on that pony at 22 months of age…Lead line to be sure but already developing that “sense of balance”!
Lead line took Matt on to the Devon Horse Show, a very prestigious venue in Devon PA where, on a very well trained, Dupont bred registered Welsh pony, Ebel Lenore, he garnered yet another ribbon!
By age 4 he had not only graduated from lead line but also moved past ponies and on to Quarter Horses and at the All American Quarter Horse Congress rode a Barroom Johnny son, Barroom Beau, born and raised on the Palmer farm. Now, Congress was in his blood. For the next 4 years, he showed at the Congress in walk-trot pleasure classes. At age 8 he came out of a pleasure class and declared that he was now moving up to reiners! Decision made!
At age 9, on Totally Greyhound, he won the Carolina Classic in the 13 and under…his first time in the pen at a NRHA Show! WOW! What excitement! At that show, Matt and his parents (and support team) first saw Crome Plated Berry. Well, after the Palmers saw Matt on Berry, Berry made the trip home to Pennsylvania from North Carolinas and Matt and Berry became the pair to watch. By the time he was 12, the pair won the Congress and the Derby in OKC and Matt and Berry were World Champion 13 and under. What a year! Greyhounds Last Slide took Matt to his first Bronze trophy at age 14 in Intermediate Non-Pro. The Trophy collection had begun! As Matt made an impression with a horse, the sale of that horse to customers became inevitable. And so, Matt learned that one of his jobs in life would be to “make” a horse.
The following years found Matt on many of the Palmer horses and then Hollywood Lolita came to the Palmers. The next year found both Father and Son, finishing in the Top 10, on the same horse…Hollywood Lolita! Matt and Lolita became the team to watch. Not only trophies but also championship saddles and numerous other titles and rewards culminated in a NRHA World Championship for the team. Matt was still only 16 years old!
Horses, to this point in his life had pushed his other sports interests to the background and Matt decided that, while he still had his High School athletic opportunities available to him, he should let the horses take a back burner for a while. Football, basketball and baseball played a primary role in his life. MVP on the basketball team and being named to the State baseball All Star team were among the many ways in which Matt’s all-around athletic abilities were recognized. Baseball even gave him the honor of a scholarship to college where, in his freshman year, he was named to the All Star Team. An injury sidelined him and then took baseball out of his college life. Fortunately injuries heal and, even today, Matt is still playing in a men’s league and thoroughly enjoying it. His competitive nature surfaces through his interest in sports as well as his lifetime passion for horses and the show ring.
Matt’s knowledge of sports and fitness play a large role in his training program. A daily training program for his own body fitness conditions the trainer to gain maximum use of body language in communicating with the horse.
As life brought Matt to the point of having to determine what direction he wanted to take, a profession in horses was one of the choices offered. Though several other opportunities presented themselves, Matt realized that life as a trainer of reining horses would let him satisfy his sense of competition as well as allow him the satisfaction of bringing a young horse along to the level of being “special”. It is Matt’s joy to not only take a young horse to the place where they are futurity candidates but also to bring them along in such a way that they are good Derby prospects and can go on to long careers in the reining world. Matt has earnings of $124,371.32.
Putting your young horse in the hands of Matt Palmer will insure that you will get an honest appraisal of his talent. If you feel your horse, young or old, deserves an opportunity to prove itself, talk to us. We welcome dedicated owners and Non Pros who are interested in showing at their best. We'd love to have you join our winning team!
Guy Palmer
Guy Palmer, owner and top Non Pro Rider earning of $66,753.45 Resverve Champion Futurity on Hollywood Lolita novice Open Champion on Smarty Smart World Champion top ten Non Pro on Hollywood Lolita 5 time freestyle congress champion.
Jason Franks
Jason Franks is the assistant trainer at Palmer Performance Horses. He has earnings of $2,016.51, at only the age of 21. In very limited showing Jason won rookie pro for the Eastern Affiliates 200. He also won rookie pro at the cabin ferver 2009 on Summer Aristocrat owned by John Grier.
Joan Palmer
Joan has earnings of $27,491.39 and is a top Non Pro coach to many riders in the top ten NRHA World Champions. Many girls under her instruction recieved scholarships to college while riding with silver and bronze medalist in FEI freestyle reining by invitation only.
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