Come Trail Ride at Karma Farms!
After watering the horses, trail ride heads up the hill.


Take a healthy helping of East Texas beauty, add one of America's best known Colonial Spanish Horse breeding farms, and season with a real taste of the Old West. That's the recipe for the kind of fun our visitors have riding America's First Horse at Karma Farms.


When the riders are inexperienced or very small, sometimes riding double is safest and the most fun way to ride our trails.


The quiet, trustworthy nature of the horses we use on our "dude string" make each ride fun, whatever your riding level. Whether it's your first time in the saddle or you are an experienced horse person, we bet one of our superior horses will show you a fun time "on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony."

Mom and daughter are enjoying their ride on Buck's Girl.

Here a visitor from Minnesota and her 3 year old daughter enjoy a ride on Buck's Girl, a very rare pony whose forefathers carried the Yaqui Indians of Old Mexico.

Riding up the north side of Dairy Hill near the picnic area

Dairy Hill is the second highest hill in our county. Our riders always like to stop for a moment to enjoy the view up there, especially if the Karma Farms horse herd are grazing below in the Front Pasture.

The view is great!

Below, the rare Colonial Spanish Horses graze. It's a rainbow of horse colors. No breed of horse comes in more shades than the Colonial Spanish, a pony also called the Original American Indian Horse.


View off Dairy Hill with grazing brood mares.

When each trail ride heads home, our guests are usually tired, but happy. Where else can you ride a real piece of American history?


A trail ride heads for home on the House Pasture road.

Fees are $25 per horse for each 1 hour ride. Children riding double are an extra $5, but we must know that you plan to ride a little one double with you so that we chose the right horse. Plan on each one hour ride actually taking about 1 1/2 hours as we do a safety lecture and get each rider acquainted with his or her mount before we set out.


Cayuse Brothers

The Cayuse Brothers of Karma Farms by Tomlyn E. Speir and Vickie Ives.

The folks and horses of Karma Farms enjoy taking riders out for an Old West experience, and some of the stories we've collected became the first in a series of books written by Tomlyn E. Speir and Vickie Ives. Looking for a good children's book for the horse-loving youngster in your family (or that Mustang lover who is still young at heart?)
Send $25.00 with your name and address to Karma Farms, 7925 US Hwy 59 N., Marshall, TX 75670, and be sure to tell us who it is for if you'd like it autographed by the authors.

Indian Horses like Pontolones, Ponch is careful, but also a bit lazy.
Fernando,
Kids love to ride the small and dashing Fernanado!and Buck's Girl Girl takes care of her riders, large and small. are the main characters in a rootin', tootin' Texas adventure that also teaches about the history of the Colonial Spanish horse, both yesterday and today. Join the whole gang at Karma Farms in this spiral bound novel with full color illustrations. Email us at karmafarms@marshalltx.com for more information.


If you are planning to be near Marshall or Jefferson in deep East Texas, give us a call at (903) 935-9980 to make reservations to ride. PLEASE, NO DROP-INS WITHOUT RESERVATIONS! We are a working horse farm and don't take bookings every day. We don't keep the dude string horses up all the time, either. Call first. We'd hate for you to be disappointed!

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