Masongate Farm, owned by Richard (Dick) and Hattie Martin, has been a lifetime dream for this couple who started out as “Childhood Sweethearts” and married very young.

Dick and Hattie started in horses with their daughter, Jill, over 30 years ago. In the beginning, they had a grade horse and attended the local ETI Corral shows. They soon graduated to a beautiful Quarter Horse mare that Jill showed successfully for many years. Jill grew up and moved on to other things buy Hattie’s interest never wavered. She purchased her first Arabian horse in 1987 and has never looked back! Hattie’s main interest is in breeding. She says that she “loves the new beginnings”.

Dick and Hattie breed their collection of mares to a variety of top stallions and they have had definite objectives in mind from the start: their goal is to product foals that have great athleticism, beauty, correctness and quality. “We have wanted from the beginning to breed and show the best horses that we can. We have been patient and selective and we can honestly say that we’re very pleased with our success in this business,” says Hattie.

Hattie looks forward to each springtime when the new lives begin and unfold into individuals with hope and wonder. Among the horses that Hattie and Dick have bred are HM Abracadabra, a multi National Champion in several disciplines and Inkredible Heat, a double National Top Ten halter gelding.

Although Hattie’s main interest is in her horses, she also loves to paint and to care for her roses and flowers. Hattie plants and maintains all of the flowers on the ranch.

Dick is a recently retired contractor enjoying renovating the ranch, playing golf and working on his Hot Rods.

It may have taken Dick and Hattie a long time to get Masongate Farm to where it is today but nobody will deny that it has been built with the labor of love!