Do you need someone you can trust to retrain a horse with issues?

If so, you have come to the right place. 

Richard Matthews’s knowledge and experience of training horses has come from his years of practical experience in common sense horsemanship. He continually perfects his breaking and training style and has always incorporated many of the techniques professed as the new resistance free/natural horsemanship. He consistently produces horses who lead productive careers in dressage, cutting, and pleasure riding.

Richard and his family live on Mulberry Farm, just outside of Winder, GA, a short jump from I-85, centrally located to Chateau Élan, Atlanta, Commerce, and Conyers, GA.

 In 1969 Mulberry Farm was established by Jack and Virginia Matthews as a recreational farm for the enjoyment of their three children. The operation of the farm was passed to Richard 1987, who has since turned it into a working horse operation which now includes cattle and hay production.

As a three year old in Tucker, GA, Richard would sit atop a fence watching the horses next door. When he was six, his family purchased a barn-sour, paint gelding that would rush back to the barn to dump him and his siblings!

Undaunted by his tough beginnings, Richard, at age ten, acquired his first registered Quarter Horse from Jack LeCroy. It was a weanling Palomino filly that he halter-broke and started under saddle himself. Eventually he traded that youngster for an experienced cutting horse that sparked his passion for cutting which continues today.

 While at Lipscomb University on a gymnastic scholarship, Richard continued to enjoy cutting. Gymnastics proved to be an added benefit to his riding. It helped to develop a naturally balanced seat and ability to ride fractious, bucking horses.

After college, Richard pursued his career in horse training when he was given the opportunity to work with Randy and Sharon Butler at Broken B Ranch in Gainesville, Texas. While working with their many young horses, he learned the basics of reining, and began to see its connection to dressage. Later when Richard settled back onto the family’s fifty-acres, he developed his own business of training horses in multiple disciplines. He always appreciated the basics of dressage and started taking lessons with his long time friend, Dr. Carole Ludwig DVM on his cutting horse. Since then, his interest in dressage has grown and he now continues to train and show thru 3rd level dressage.

Richard has started over three hundred horses under saddle. They have ranged from Quarter Horses, to Thoroughbreds, and Warmbloods, with various disciplines of cutting, jumping, and dressage.

Richard is joined by his wife Angela and step-son Cameron. Angela is an accomplished dressage rider in her own right and has been riding for the past 20 years. They now enjoy showing and competing together.

We welcome inquires and visitors to our farm and frequently have client’s horses for sale.

We welcome your interest.