About Us

Karma Arabians is an Arabian Horse breeding and Show facility nestled in the central Texas Hill Country just south of Waco, TX.  We have 60 acres and a 16 stall barn with an indoor riding arena as well as vet and breeding areas.  We are able to work with cooled or frozen semen and are starting our Embryo Transplant program this year.  Our show horses are trained both at home and sent out to selected trainers as needed.

We specialize in Performance horses- both purebreds of Spanish and Skowronek bloodlines and "Designer" colored Half Arabians and Anglo Arabian horses.  We compete successfully in both the "Main Ring" and the Sport Horse Disciplines and show in both open and amateur classes.

Karma Arabians—How did we start?

My mother swears that the first time I asked for a horse I was 2 yrs old—When I was 4 my grandmother called me to her window to see a man riding by on a mare with her foal at side—“LOOK, Karlan- there is a man on a horse outside and a little  pony!”  In the authority than only the young have, I drew up to full height and clearly remember her expression when I corrected her—“Mammaw- they call it a COLT!!”  Why horses?  Who knows.  No one in my family had horses- all were town folks and my dad was in the Air Force.  I just knew from an early age that my life was to be inexplicitly bound to these wonderful animals.

In elementary school a friend had an Arabian mare and we rode her up and down the dirt irrigation lanes in Lubbock.   I was usually on the back—but even that was what dreams were made of.  Looking back over her rump at that flag of a tail waving proudly in the breeze is a memory I cherish.  A friend had a birthday party at the local rent stables and when I realized you could RENT a horse to ride my ice cream days were over.  Every penny I could get my hands on was hoarded and when I had 50 cents I would go ride for an hour.  My dad had been in French Morocco with the military and he had a brief bit of movie film he took at the local horse races and sent home to me—There was an Arab on a grey horse who rode in and had the horse REAR—I knew when I saw that that I wanted not only a horse—but an ARABIAN horse!

Dad was transferred to Idaho—Everyone else was sad about the move- but I was ECSTATIC—there were STABLES on the base!!!  Never tell a horse crazy kid they can have a horse when they can pay for it unless you mean to own horses.  Suffice it to say that a grade mare with a Half Arabian colt at side soon became a member of my family.  I rode and showed horses for anyone who would let me.  I ran barrels, tied goats, and spent hours out in the desert alone with my horse.  We swam in the Snake River- jumped sagebrush and once scared everyone to death when we discovered an old forgotten ammo dump and I brought home a live shell!  My dad had me set it in the yard on base and called the equivalent of a bomb squad to dispose of it—they  insisted that I take them out to show them the dump which was then removed.  After that we just goofed off at the old stage coach stations!

I was fortunate to learn about bloodlines from Vivienne Ruliene- one of the early founders of AHA—and other old time horsemen and Arabian breeders.  I read every cavalry manual in the base library.  At shows some of the old time great trainers offered suggestions for the horses I trained myself—no one but the very well to do had trainers!  I was lucky enough to know horses like Fadjur, Surf, Azraff and the other *Raffles sons and daughters, Bask, Bay Abi, Ronteza, - the Babson horses—the Van Fleet horses- *WitezII, *Pilot , Sureyn, the early Kellogg horses-  and *Serafix with his great top ten daughters--  the Draper imports and later the Spanish imports by the Steens.  The Arabian world was much smaller then and these were horses- not just names on paper.

When I left for college the horses stayed behind for a year—then my Arabian Stallion Pi-Ko (*Pilot X Kolann) got to come to school—He unfortunately died of Colitis X that summer- and I was horseless even though my folks still had some. (You cannot have “JUST ONE HORSE” so my family ended up with several)  I rode anything I could and loved all of them- Then- my senior year of Med School my husband said he thought I should buy myself a horse for a graduation present.  After I called Vivienne and told her I wanted a stallion to ride, show, and start my breeding herd, Wezy moved from Idaho to Galveston, TX.

Of course everyone knows you cannot own a stallion without owning at least one mare—so my husband Mark-( from Massachusetts who had never even owned a dog) gave in after being suckered by a newborn foal and called one day while I was on ER Duty as a Surgical Intern to announce that he had found “THE MARE” in the Arabian Horse World classified.  It was all I could do to get him to wait till I got home to look at the details.  Unfortunately she was NOT the mare—But another one was and we now had a “herd” of 2. Other mares were added- predominately of the Skowronek and Crabbet lines I had loved in Idaho. 

I went to breeding programs I respected and bought older mares that I could afford—Tish Hewitt, Bazy, Gina Manion, Vivienne Rulien, & Lois Selby Perry provided great mares as well as out second stallion- PHP Azaad++ bred by Lois and Asil Aristocrat bred by Alice Payne and obtained from Lois.  Azaad and Aristocrat were great horses and their pedigrees were just what I wanted to cross back and forth on Wezy daughters.  Bill Munson and I met and became friends—Many nights Bill and I stayed up all hours at the Shalimar Ranch kitchen table—Mark and Mae having given up the ghost hours before, talking about pedigrees and horses.  Bill decided to disperse his herd and sold me the broodmare band- 20 broodmares and the Stallion Great Circle—I agreed, but only if Bill would keep them till they foaled, rebreed them and let me bring them back to Texas in several loads in return for the foals they were carrying.  He agreed—and God vetoed his cutting down, because almost every mare had a filly for him!  Asil Aristocrat  died and Lois found Confortation- a son of Asil Legacy for me in California as a replacement.

Mark (the other half of Karma) and I had an amicable divorce and I kept the horses.  Some years later I moved from the Hallettsville area where I had gone into practice to Chilton, near Waco, and my new husband Ray soon became as enamored with the horses as I am.  We are in the process of finishing the barn I wanted for most of my life—with an indoor riding area and breeding area! Ray has started showing his Half Arabian Pinto mare “Hazel” in Trail and soon possibly in Western Pleasure.  We have a really great bunch of young prospects coming up that we are both anxious to ride.

I had gotten Los Angeles, a ¾ Spanish stallion, from Bazy and I was so taken with his foals that I got the Classical Spanish mare Spanish Splendor from Paul McDannald—The foals added what I wanted to my horses- The young stallion KMA Last Wezsh- by KMA Ibn Wezy (Wezy X KM Constellation by Confrontation out of PHP Star Gida) out of Spanish Splendor was everything I had hoped for and we started looking for more Spanish blood.  We have recently leased the wonderful young *Sasaki son Zazzaki,  and Splendor is in foal to *Sasaki for 2010.  We have leased several Spanish and Spanish related mares to breed to him.  We have also bred colored Half Arabians (due to one of my interests- color genetics in horses) and Anglo Arabian Sport horses.

Our horses have won at the Class A, Regional and National level in many different disciplines- both main ring and Sport horse with wins as diverse as Reining, Cutting, Trail, Halter, Costume, Hunter, Jumper, Dressage, Sidesaddle, English, Park, Pleasure and Carriage Driving, Western Pleasure, Hunter Pleasure and Jr Exhibitor classes. We have exported horses to Mexico, Alaska, and Venezuela .

Ray has started showing this year and is doing well with his Half Arabian mare "Hazel" aka Smoke N Mirrors in trail classes. He plans to show in some pleasure classes and has been showing and winning with horses In Hand in the Main Ring and Sport Horse classes. I look forward to cheering him on at Nationals. He is retired and is a very important part of the day to day running of our farm. His patience and quiet non-threatening attitude as well as the cookies in his pockets ensure that the horses all come to visit every time he goes into a pasture.

Our goal is to raise beautiful, typy, correct, athletic horses that would love to share your tent! Our motto “Where Type Never Goes Out of Style” is as true today as it was when we started in 1972. We would love to have you visit with us and “talk horses”. We may just have the horse you have been dreaming of!