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Carter Acres
Quarter Horses
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CA Thea
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The 2025 sale has come and gone but take a look for an idea of quality you'll find here and mark your calendars for the 67th annual sale on 8/15/26!
We continue to be encouraged by the depth of versatility we're seeing in our horses. The disciplines include ranch versatility performers, youth projects being shown in local shows and rodeos, ranching prospects, elite gelding sales, reputable breeding programs, to name a few. Our goal to raise conformationally correct, athletic, kind, trainable horses that can excel in multiple disciplines seems to be coming to fruition and it's very gratifying. We invite you to check us out on the following pages. And feel free to chat if you have any questions!
CA Halo
2017 Smoky Black Mare
For Sale by Current Owner
Contact us for more info.
CA Halo - 2017 8yr old smoky black AQHA Mare, 14.3 hands
Located in Delano, MN
LJSR Sterling Roan x Marquee Diamond (Fancy Cut Diamonds)
Halo is an athletic and sweet mare with tons of experience under her belt in western, trail english (dressage), bareback, and more. She was started slow between 3 and 4yrs old and since then has gone trail riding, camping, been frequently hauled to events, and competed with an experienced young rider at various shows. Her show experience includes 4H and competitive trail. Would make an excellent fancy trail horse, camping partner, hunter pleasure horse or a dressage prospect. Rides in a western hackamore, a western curb, or a simple snaffle. She's a neck reining pro and also understands a direct rein with dressage contact.
She is a kind, calm, forward horse; responsive and easy to work with. Would be great for an intermediate or advanced rider who rides with a soft hand. She leg yields, side passes, stops on a dime, and backs. She is schooling shoulder-in and collected trot. She trailers and stalls well, turns out in a group, trail rides confidently, crossties, pickets, and is not spooky or mare-ish. Will go out alone or in a group and is not buddy sour. Stands well for the farrier and vet and for mounting. No bite/buck/rear/spook. Barefoot.
Prioritizing an excellent, long term home with an experienced rider.
DM for more information. Video available. Serious inquiries only. Priced mid-high teens.
Didn't Apache grow up pretty?? We briefly contemplated keeping him for a stallion; he probably was good enough for it, but that wasn't his calling. Currently he's solidly started as a heading horse; check out his cool video at: https://trianglehorsesales.net/consignment/?HipNumber=155
He sold at the Triangle Sale in Oklahoma City, OK on January 23rd for $24,000!
This year's Trail Challenge was not without its hiccups! Due to extremely wet conditions, we had to postpone it TWICE and then just change venues entirely! We are grateful for Butler Ridge Ranch and Sue Holmgren for allowing us to host the challenge at their indoor facility on October 18, 2025.
Yearlings had to navigate bridges, pick up their feet, sidepass and load in a trailer among other things. Riders had to navigate the same under saddle, but had some "interesting" obstacles to encounter that made it fun!
Congratulations to all who got out of your comfort zone and competed, especially our local area youth!
Above/Top - Winners in the 5+ class- 1st - Shelley Johnson; 2nd - Carol Sheridan; 3rd - Kelly Anderson
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Middle - Winners in the yearling in-hand class - 1st - Danielle Hamilton; 2nd - Jordan Erickson; 3rd - Olivia Anderson
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Bottom - Winners in the 2-4 year old class - 1st - Kelly Anderson; 2nd/3rd - Shelley Johnson
Cherokee sold at Montana's Premier Horse Sale in Big Sky, MT on July 12. This amazing gelding was RESERVE HIGH SELLING HORSE at $127,000!
Check out his SUPER COOL video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv3bOhF0hgI&list=PLd45ZBk-VbpmCi76VgNflQo3MdTq37rcY&index=20
2024 Highlights!
Wow. What a busy year! But SO fun! Here are just a few of the fun moments in pictures. 98 years young, Myron bought our high selling stud colt in 2015. Grandson, Joel and his wife Amy are enjoying him now (CA Kash). What a wonderful visit we had with them! CA Thea is too valuable at the Campbell operation to become a broodmare; you can see her getting the job done at the branding fire. Hope on Mesa and Nicki on Stella are fabulous friends that I occasionally get to trail ride with and once in awhile we can count on them to do our chores; precious friends indeed! Jordan and CA Gwinner are going to be super fun to watch on their futurity journey; I will have to work to keep up! Kelly and CA Acadia (aka Phoenix) are sweeping up in Ranch Horse Versatility Trail (among other fun things); Swagger joined Carter Acres stallion battery in November (it's a ways off, but still!) And then there are just girls loving horses. All sizes and all ages (Amy and Kash; Lilly and CA Cayuga; Michelle and Little Red (aka CA Rusty) Aaaahhhhhhh, makes our hearts happy!! This is our WHY. What's yours??
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Who We Are
Set in the picturesque rolling hills of west central Minnesota, we have been breeding, raising and training Registered Quarter Horses for over twenty years. We are so fortunate to have a valuable heritage in that we are affiliated with the Lazy JS Ranch in Bowman, North Dakota. Nada’s father, Russ Silha, started raising Quarter Horses many years ago. In fact, the ranch hosted its 65th annual production sale on August 17, 2024, making us one of the longest running Quarter Horse production sales in the country. We do our best to follow in the family footsteps and raise horses that are structurally correct, athletic enough to go to the arena or the ranch and have trainable dispositions that most people can get along with. And, if you’ve noticed that our brand resembles the Jesus fish symbol, that’s on purpose as we strive to follow His teachings, keeping the Golden Rule at the top of our list.
If you are already a satisfied customer and have some photos you’d like to share, we’d love to showcase some of our horses in action! Please email any photos/comments to nadacarter@gmail.com. Enjoy the site and please feel free to contact us with any comments or questions. Our door is always open if you are in the area. We’d love to have you stop by!
Carter Acres Quarter Horses
Dale or Nada Carter and family
26708 County Road 10
Starbuck, MN 56381
320.424.2959 or 320.424.2957
nadacarter@gmail.com
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