North Country Quarter Horses
Ranch Raised Performance Horses
About Us
Located near Big Sandy, Montana
North Country Quarter Horses (NCQH) is a family-owned ranch in North Central Montana, owned by Fred and Linda Finke. The ranch is located just west of Big Sandy, MT; 30 miles west of the Bear's Paw Mountains and 45 miles south of the Canadian border. NCQH grazes our horses in rough, rocky, flat terrain year-round; and with this, our herd is exposed to extreme heat and bitter cold. This environment helps to create hardy, tough horses that can thrive anywhere. NCQH also run a commercial cattle business. We raise our horses to not only perform in the arena at all levels of competition, but to work cattle and cover ground on the ranch.
The stallions at NCQH are well bred AQHA horses that possess good feet and bone, great dispositions, speed, agility, and conformation. We strive to establish excellence in all aspects of a working or performance horse; stamina, eye appeal, talent, and substance. Our focus is on breeding performance bred stallions to mares that are both performance and ranch prospects. We select mares to complement our stallions in order to find the perfect balance of speed, performance, cow, and foundation lines. Our mares must have keen feminine heads, friendly dispositions, quiet minds, good withers, solid feet, big bone, and size.
NCQH cattle are run on big native pastures year-round. We calve in May and June and wean in early December. With a strong conservation ethic here at NCQH, we work very hard to enhance the natural beauty of the area. Striving to be good stewards of God's creation, we mimic a migrating herd by rotating cattle through many large pasture paddocks. We move and work our cattle using our stallions and ranch raised horses, using traditional methods for branding and herd management in which our horses are used extensively. We not only raise these horses; we use them ourselves on a daily basis.
NCQH invites you to come take a walk through our pastures and look at our broodmares and meet our stallions. If you are in the market for quality horses that can be used on the ranch or to win at any level of competition, this is the place to look. We hope to see you soon!
Ranch Raised AQHA Performance Horses
We pride ourselves in raising AQHA registered horses that are suited for a variety of jobs.
Come and take a closer look!
Our door is alway open! Give us a call, we'd love to have you see our horses for yourself.
The Boss Ladies
Black In Da Cash as a yearling
Bill Johnson and Gambler
Mares and foals in their late summer/early fall pasture with the Bears Paw Mountains on the horizon.
Bill Johnson and Gambler
Black In Da Cash as a yearling
Bill Johnson and Gambler
Gambler was one of our stallions that we sold many years ago. He was a beautiful sire and threw such beautiful foals. We had the opportunity to see him again and he was just as kind as ever.
Black In Da Cash as a yearling
Black In Da Cash as a yearling
We purchased "CASH" from J-T Performance Horses, Broadus MT in 2011. Since then he has sired many a colt for us. He throws them good and throws them plenty!
LF Twister
Jacob Wang at University of Wyoming on LF Twister
Bill throwing a dally or two while movin' the herd.
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LF Gamblers Love
Haven Wolstein of the Montana State Rodeo Team on LF Gamblers Love
LF Big Iron
KT A Dashing Gent running barrels
KT A Dashing Gent running barrels
LF Big Iron - Dappled grey pickup horse owned by the Ranstrom family of Pingree, ID
KT A Dashing Gent running barrels
KT A Dashing Gent running barrels
KT A Dashing Gent running barrels
Our stud "Jack" running barrels with the trainer Traver Rains.
LF Hancock Silverboy
KT A Dashing Gent running barrels
Bill and his horse, Blackie, moving mares to the ranch.
Amanda Hennessy competing in barrel racing with LF Hancock Silverboy
Bill and his horse, Blackie, moving mares to the ranch.
Bill and his horse, Blackie, moving mares to the ranch.
Bill and his horse, Blackie, moving mares to the ranch.
A horse of many talents!
Bill and his horse, Blackie, moving mares to the ranch.
A horse of many talents!
Paige riding KT A Dashing Gent while moving cattle across the ranch. He's not just a barrel horse, we have used him for multiple jobs on the ranch as well.
