~Our History~

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Quality Pleasure Horses is  made of two friends, Kari Wolfgram and Julie Huffman. We each have been involved in horses for many years. Here is each of our histories and how Quality Pleasure Horses was created.

Julie got her first horse when she was a little girl and has had one ever since. She started out doing 4-H and showing at the local shows, as well as the larger shows around the state with her Quarter Horse mare . In 1990 Julie and her mom got into American Saddlebreds. They breed and raised many Saddlebred babies and had much sucess in the show ring. After about 10 years they decided they had  enough, and got out of them. Julie then got back into Quarter Horses, and now Paints.

Kari has been around horses her whole life. She started out showing 4-H and local shows as well. She then got her first Quarter Horse western pleasure gelding at the age of 13 and has been "hooked" ever since. Kari started showing at the quarter horse shows as a youth. After High School she took a short break from showing, but Kari  shortly bought her self a new horse to show in the Amateur division, a Quarter Horse mare named Hotter Than You.  Kari was only able to show her a few times and put a few points on her, as her stifle injury ended her show career. It wasn't until we bought A Sudden Option that Kari was really finally able to get back into the pen again.

Quality Pleasure Horses was created in the fall of 2007 when we went to our first paint show. We got such a response to our weanling filly, A Good Rumor, that we start planning right then and there at the show to get into paint horses. We spent that winter figuring out what Paint stallions would be a good cross for our Quarter Horse mares and bred them the following spring. That spring we bought A Sudden Option and started showing her in the fall at the Paint and Pinto shows here in the Northwest. By the spring of 2009 A Sudden Option and Kari had earned their Amateur Western Pleasure ROM, and had earned 18 APHA points in HUS and Western Pleasure. They also earned over 130 Pinto points and were multiple Futurity Money and Hi- Point winners.  In 2009 we also got two amazing foals out of our Quarter Horse mares, Natural Potential and Hotter Than You for our first foal crop.  In 2010 Julie showed the Natural Potential daughter the Reserve Champion in the Oregon Triple Crown Futurity, along with putting lunge line and in hand trail points on the filly. Not bad for not being in the show pen in over 10 years.

Our partnership works because we each have our areas that we are knowledgeable about and enjoy doing. Julie has foaled out many mares over the years and enjoys working with the babies. Where Kari has spent more time training and showing the older horses. We both enjoy doing the work ourselves and seeing the horses that we have bred and raised being shown.

Julie hopes to get back in the saddle someday and back into the show pen. Watch for her in the spring in the yearling longeline classes and futurities here in the Northwest. While Kari will hopes to continue to show in the amateur events and futurities with the babies that we raise.

Watch for this team of amateurs that likes to do it themselves and believe in only breeding to improve the a breed no matter what breed it may be!

Kari, Julie, and A Sudden Option