Skip N General is a horse that has made a lasting impact on our program. He produced consistently competitive horses who excelled no matter where you put them and looked gorgeous while doing it!

Taylor’s first and second mares were both daughters of Skip N General and while we would have loved to breed them she was too busy riding them in a time where flushing mares was not a common or accessible practice. We recently purchased one of his granddaughters to breed so we can keep this bloodline going!

In an interview with GoHorseShow.com professional horseman Leonard Berryhill said, “The horse that influenced me at the beginning of my career was a 1980 palomino stallion my family raised named Skip N General. “General” was bred to be a performer. He was such a natural that even though I started him in May, we won the two year-old palomino futurity at the Tulsa State Fair–then the industry’s largest palomino show. His three year-old year was not only filled with great achievements, but while showing this great young horse, it helped me decide what I wanted to do with my life.

We showed him in the halter along with the western pleasure classes. Then in May, we discovered the flying lead change. I took him to an AQHA show in Drumright, Oklahoma in June, entered the western riding, and won. By the time 1983 was over, Skip N General, as a three year-old, had become the PHBA World Champion in the Junior Western Pleasure, and my first AQHA World Champion in Junior Western Riding. It was quite common to show him in halter, western pleasure, western riding, heading and heeling with great success at the same show. Even today, people will come to me and talk about how they remember me showing that great, beautiful palomino stallion, Skip N General.”