A small Dutch Warmblood breeding farm that produces hunter and jumper foals and show-ready prospects from performance mares and proven bloodlines.
Mane on Fire Farm offers to the public a quiet, down-home atmosphere for the boarder who is as much seeking a revitalizing atmosphere for her horse as herself. We offer stall and pasture board, lessons, and full-time training. For the discerning owner, our horses are started and trained carefully and correctly with classical basics applicable to a wide variety of disciplines. We as much keep the h
orse's mental health in mind as his physical health, and prefer to include lessons with every training package. Also offered are a wide variety of sales horses at any given time, from foal to prospects. Horse shows are an important component of our sales plans, and we would be happy to represent your horse in these endeavors. Having spent the last several years restarting thoroughbreds from the track, we have acquired an abundance of knowledge on nutrition, healthcare, and difficult horses. If you ever need any advice, feel free to give us a call!
07/24/2025
Ruckus MFF at his very first horse show! It was alot of firsts for this sweet 4-year-old, and it was lovely to watch him grow up from Friday to Sunday.
He is for sale, if you know anyone looking for a super jumper prospect :-)
06/25/2025
Comme Prevu impressed me quite a bit as a young horse both for his unique breeding and compact type. It’ll be fun to see him in the US!
Kona’s Comme Prevu should arrive in the next month, so we’ll get a little prevu of his get 😄
03/06/2025
Looking for a new home for a couple of lovely ladies. Cutting back this year due to an announcement coming in the next week or so...
Nefertiti MFF (Bliss MF/Voltaire/Abantos) is an incredible jumper or hunter producing KWPN-NA registered mare, born 2018. She has unreal scores for free jumping and frankly jumps like a freak. She is incredibly scopey, careful, and bold. As a jumper, she is quick to the jumps, quick over the jumps, and incredible with her hind end. As a hunter, she has a textbook front end, beautiful bascule, and is perfectly consistent over every jump to every spot. Her trot is flat-kneed with that adorable toe flick when she gets going, and her dam was a 3' hunter Circuit Champion in the A's on the west coast. She also has an easy 12' stride with adjustability and athleticism to get her out of trouble every time. This is a mare that won her free jump class at Young Horse Show and was ranked very highly by both KWPN-NA and BWP/NAD when she was free jumped for them.
She is in the marebooks for KWPN-NA, BWP/NAD, and I believe (will have to check if we presented her last year), Holsteiner Verband - NA. Breed to a big, slow, gentle giant for a hunter or a leggy jumper for a jumper - she can produce either way.
Now for the downsides: she is a true 15.2 hh and was difficult to start undersaddle (though she got about the worst start you could ask for). Someone could ABSOLUTELY put her back undersaddle and get her going though, as she is 100% sound and vets cleanly. Which reminds me - her D-OC score with KWPN-NA is 104!!
She is currently in foal to Omano BC - her third foal - and we are planning on retaining this foal if it's a filly. So she could be sold alone or with a c**t option, but we'd be happy to help you get her rebred this year.
Nefertiti is truly one of my nicest mares, and I'm having a really hard time wrapping my head around letting this one go. If you're ready to step your program up, here is your opportunity.
We are offering 3 stalls for self-care board at $400/month and 2 spots for "Paddock Board" at $550/month.
Paddock Board horses will live in a paddock with a buddy, and come in out of inclement weather. They will not come into stalls daily.
Self-care is what you think it is: we have three stalls and a paddock available to the self-care boarders, the boarders provide all hay/feed/bedding and labor.
All boarders have access to our two huge arenas and a very big round pen!
Inquire for more details.
11/14/2024
The kids are growing up! First time with tack on - like a tightened girth - for this young guy!
Kaitlin Miller-Roberts
11/06/2024
10/28/2024
We received this wonderful photo 📸 of the Site Champion Mare at Mane on Fire Farm, LLC: The KWPN mare O'Hara MFF (breeder&owner Morgan Kennedy) by Rotspon - Cartier R - Regent Act xx has been approved, entered into the marebook Holstein Global 🌎 and was awarded the District Premium 👏🏼 Her score of 50 points makes her the third highest scoring mare of the tour!🥉 We will soon announce the high scorers of the Holsteiner Verband CAN & USA Inspection Tour 2024 so stay tuned❗
10/22/2024
Congrats to O’Hara MFF (aka Scarlett) for 1st among all the mares that BWP/NAD inspected this year!
10/07/2024
Congratulations to Nefertiti MFF, Telvera, and O'Hara MFF for Premium at the Holsteiner inspection! O'Hara MFF secured Site Champion Mare as well, scoring 8(!) for her gorgeous trot.
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I remember when I was young watching this gorgeous chestnut mare trot around the ring. It was a typical Houston afternoon - stifling hot, even in the covered arena - the kind of day where no amount of shade could make you comfortable. Despite that, a crowd had gathered; a new queen had come to roost at the modest boarding barn we called home. She was the epitome of what a sporthorse should be, as she possessed the floaty, ground covering trot of a hunter, the temperament of a Children’s Hunter, and scope of an international-level jumper. She was enough of a contrast to our thoroughbreds, quarter horses, and warmbloods that we found ourselves transfixed that day - even if she was “just hacking”.
‘How do I recreate this level of exceptionalism?’ Is a pretty succinct summary of our breeding philosophy. The goal is a horse that through thoughtful breeding can embody qualities an American hunter or jumper would ask for in her dream horse.
So, about three years ago, the Kennedys started to pursue that dream. We purchased a ramshackle farm in foreclosure, and spent the following six months discovering things that needed fixed at a far faster rate than fixing can happen. So we began on a seemingly endless endeavour - replacing every foot of fencing, clearing out aging structures, and building new barns - almost entirely ourselves. A year and a half later, we had earned far more life lessons than dollars, and yet the farm was really beginning to evolve into something incredible.
The Present -
And so Mane on Fire Farm, LLC was born and we began to acquire a quality group of mares. Ideal broodmare candidates had campaigned many years in the A Shows and had known pedigrees of good breeding. We were happy to take risks on fertility and registration issues, but quality was not optional.
As of this year, we’ve branched out into embryo transfers, and started focusing on more frozen semen breedings. Consequently, the quality of stallions we can choose from and foals we can produce will continue to advance. And that is our one overarching focus right now - fantastic genetics.
The Future -
Foals are the future. The coming years will bring the start to their riding and show careers - which really, at the end of the day is the point of it all. Some of them will also produce offspring of their own, so that those great genetics will be around for the next generation.
So - here’s to a shining future! We hope you’ll stick around to watch these youngsters reach their potential!