Breeders of world class Paso Fino horses for competition, show, trail, stud and pleasure.  Fairwind Farms has horses from inutero to aged available for buyers with discriminating taste,  please contact us to find the right horse for you! Breeding Paso Fino horses at Fairwind Farms are bred for many attributes. First and foremost is that the animal GAIT. The unique four beat gait of the Paso Fino is what sets them apart from other equines, if they don't gait they aren't special anymore! With that in the foreground of breeding parameters, Fairwind then breeds for:   Intelligence Conformation Brios Size Temperament

 
Not necessarily with any one taking precedence in importance, but seeking to combine all in one horse! The process of breeding the "perfect" Paso Fino will never end. However Fairwind Farms has been breeding Paso Fino horses for 12 years and the offspring we produce are beginning to fit the ideal very nicely.

Gait
Paso Fino horses can be bred to ensure that the offspring will gait. Careful selection of matings will produce horses that exhibit gait consistently. Sloppy and poorly gaited animals have no place in a breeding program. Fairwind foals will gait as a matter of course. By selective breeding, we strive to ensure that this will always be the case!

Intelligence
It doesn't cost anything more in time or money to maintain an intelligent horse. So why deal with a dumb one? An intelligent horse can learn more rapidly and is a joy to be around. So Fairwind feels that it is an important characteristic to strive to produce!

Conformation
Form to function, how many times have you heard that? A horse doesn't have to have show ring Bella Forma conformation to be a quality horse, but some conformation faults will prohibit soundness or function in a horse. Therefore Fairwind breeds for conformation as it applies to ridability.

Brios
Brios is the heart and fire that are so much a joy in the Paso Fino breed. A Paso Fino with no Brios is like food without and salt or any other form of spices.
Not everyone enjoys spicy food, but few can enjoy a BLAND diet! So just like a good chef, a good breeder strives to produce Paso Fino horses that can suit any pallet. We have the "hot tamales" and the "mild" versions!

Size
Paso Fino horses are not ever going to be huge. But that doesn't mean that the breed can not be bred to increase the size and still maintain the other qualities so unique to the breed. In the United States everything has to be bigger and better! Many Americans wish to be mounted on larger horses than the sizes most commonly found in the Paso Fino. With this in mind, Fairwind has tried to to breed for a larger horse, when the opportunity presented itself.

Temperament
A horse needs to be as much a pleasure to handle as it is ride. Fairwind breeds for a "user friendly" horse! Fairwind horses are people oriented and enjoyable to be around. Imprinting at the time of birth helps to ensure the individual will be acclimatized to human handling. Horses of poor temperament are excluded from the breeding program.
 

Fairwind Farms has horses from inutero to aged available for buyers with discriminating taste, please contact us to find the right horse for for you!

Articles By Beverly Whittington
Foals - The Future

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