King Clip Bar is an eight year old palomino stud.  Mark & Diana looked long and hard to find the color, conformation and bloodlines they felt would cross well on their race bred mares.  On King Clip Bar's papers are the legendary horses King 234, Three Bars and Otoe.

King Clip Bar - or "Chip" as they call him - is producing babies that have a lot of color, bone and are good minded.  The Melvins' young horses are all eligible for the Bold Heart Roping and Barrel futurities and other performance events.

King Clip Bar
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Our Brood
Mare Band

During the fourteen years the Melvin’s were at the race track they trained multiple high point, high money won and year end award winning quarter horses and thoroughbreds. A high light of the Race track years was earning the Quarter Horse Breeder Award for the state of South Dakota. Many friends were made and the mares that they campaigned are now the Foundation of their Brood mare band. (The original brood mare band of about a dozen mares were all multiple race winners, stakes placed horses and track record holders.) A few of these mares are still producing babies.

Champion 3 year old qualified for every derby. Won the Ft. Pierre & Aberdeen quarter horse derbies.  Set an arena record in 4-H barrels, 2nd fastest time in Fizz Bomb Barrel Futurity.

Speed Nails on his way to
victory and many more.