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About Star Ranch
 Star Ranch is dedicated to the advancement of the sport of reining. Located on 40 beautiful acres in the heart of horse country, the Ranch offers all the amenities needed for raising and developing top notch reining horses. Utilizing a variety of top bloodlines from the reining, cutting, and cowhorse industries, Star Ranch specializes in developing outstanding show horses. They are willing to look for talent in every horse. This philosophy not only promotes soundness and longevity, but also enables prospects to attain their full potential.
About The Owners
The ranch is owned by Sherry and Allen Adams of Plano, Texas, and was originally a winery. The Adams's purchased the property in 2004, and have been building all the amenities required for a world class reining operation. You can learn more about the Star Ranch facility here. As a small child growing up, Sherry Adams developed a deep love and respect of horses. "Their physical strength and majestic beauty always intrigued me," she explains. "I always knew that one day I would own a horse. "
In 1998 that dream became reality when Allen promised to buy her a horse on Christmas day. After a great deal of research, Sherry chose to take riding lessons first, and began riding with Tinker Buckley of Buckley Farms. Tinker later helped Sherry pick out a prospect well suited for her. During that time, Sherry was in the fortunate position to retire from a longtime career in commercial real estate marketing and business development. And after months of riding and learning more about the reining horses at Buckley Farms, she became enthralled with the sport of reining.
"The reining horses were fascinating to me. They reminded me of dressage horses, but more athletic and less temperamental," remembers Sherry. Deciding to learn more, she leased a reining horse and developed her skills in the saddle and her knowledge of the industry. Reining quickly became a passion for Sherry as she attended reining shows, bought books, riding and training tapes, and magazines. After spending a great deal of time with trainers, breeders and horse owners; she decided to do more. "I became involved with associations related to reining. I really became excited when I learned that reining was being considered as the United States Equestrian Team’s newest and only western discipline," says Sherry.
Although reining had been in existence for decades, Sherry realized that the newly formed association of reining with the United States Equestrian Team made the sport a ground floor business opportunity for emerging markets. "The fact that reining is the only western discipline adds to the market appeal. I decided it would be prudent to become a part of this new business opportunity," she explains. To accomplish that goal, Sherry developed International Equine Investments LLC in 1999, a limited liability company formed for the sole purpose of "breeding, training and showing champion reining horses for a profit." Quite simply, as Sherry puts it, the objective of the business is to breed United States and International Equestrian Team horses.
Fast forward to 2008, and it becomes obvious that Sherry is making things happen. She currently is the Ambassador of Reining for the United States Equestrian Team, and a board member of the United States Equestrian Team Foundation. This is all in addition to the full scale training operation she and Allen are developing at Star Ranch.
 The Adams' are excited about the advancement of Reining on an international level, as well as the corresponding future of Star Ranch. The ranch features a 125' x 250' covered, lighted arena with a grandstand that can accommodate a crowd and an excellent PA system. "We have been holding clinics at the ranch, and several being disciplines other than reining," notes Sherry. "One of my personal missions is to broaden the understanding of USEF and the USET Foundation within our region. Both organizations seem to be an enigma in this area. So we will be having Olympians performing clinics," she explains.
If you happen to be in the Aubrey area, please feel free to call the Ranch and stop by. Star Ranch offers outstanding reining horses for sale or Lease. Let us help you develop your own reining dreams.
Sponsors
Star Ranch is a proud to support the efforts of the National Reining Horse Association Youth Members. For the past several years, Star Ranch has been proud to sponsor the Trophy Saddle presented to the NRHyA Futurity Champion.
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