Welcome to the Short N Sweet Ranch!
At the Short N Sweet Ranch, we believe that people should relate to horses in a positive, caring way. This positive, caring approach, combined with good horse sense & reasonable limits, creates happy secure horses that want to work for us.
We chose the Icelandic Breed for their calm steady temperament, their genuine desire to be with people & their small but sturdy physiques!
Our Icy’s can carry a 200-pound man, yet are gentle enough for a 5-year-old to learn on.
Please feel free to browse around our site and contact us for more
We can help you learn to ride, solve problems or re-connect with the horse you have now, or
purchase one of our Short N Sweet Icys!
Triton is a perfect example of how sweet Icelandic horses can be when trained with loving kindness & understanding.
Triton has been taught to lie down on command as well as several other tricks. In this picture he has been asked to lie down so a brand new rider can sit on a horse for the first time secure in the knowledge that it won’t hurt if she falls off! You can’t get much lower to the ground than this!
Like most gaited horses, Icelandic need no special tack to hold their gait.
In this picture, a young beginning rider is riding Kanida (Bunny) at a slow tolt. Note that she is riding bareback with only a halter!
At Short N Sweet, our lessons are mostly taught bareback so students
learn to follow the movements of the horse.
We also use halters for beginning riders as we believe bits are used for
refinement which is an advanced concept.
