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Tradewinds Farm

Promoting and breeding quality Percheron horses as well as a few well broke riding horses suitable f Operated by Tyrel and Amy Frey.

We are a small family farm raising and promoting our homebred Percheron horses at the National and World Levels. We attempt to stay away from the pedigrees more commonly found at sales and show barns around the country, hoping to produce quality outcross horses who are capable of showing and winning at any level and produce the next generation. We must be doing okay, our horses are competing in mu

ltiple disciplines and excelling! We are very proud of what we have accomplished and hope to continue to produce attractive, well conformed, well mannered Percheron horses that anyone would be proud to own. We're always happy to show off the residents here at the farm, please feel free to give us a call and set up a visit

07/21/2025

Now that breeding season has wound down, we have turned our focus to refreshing some neglected skills.

Hemi was started lightly in harness last fall, but didn't get a lot of opportunities to show off those skills before we jumped right into breeding season this spring. He is enjoying the added attention that comes with lessons each day and his people are very pleased with his retention of all the new skills we introduced last year! We're eagerly looking forward to building his skills the rest of this year.
It will make the wait until his 2026 foals begin arriving pass quickly, we're sure!

06/27/2025

Sometimes the weather cooperates and makes newer skills really attractive to some of the youngsters. Or maybe we're just making lemonade out of this heatwave we're all enduring?

Boston (Tradewinds Flint x Lauricia Black Bess) has become very professional in his response to bathing. He decided very quickly that having the sweat and dirt rinsed off each day with cool water is wonderful.

When the current real-feel is 95 with 70% humidity a cool bath is a very enticing option!

06/21/2025

We've consulted with the residents here and they are in unanimous agreement - the weather today is Too Hot!

Baby Steve was especially emphatic regarding his opinions of the weather. He was most appreciative when the humans came to the gate and took his field to the barn so they could spend the day with the worst of the heat under fans.

We didn't have the heart to break it to him that this is just the beginning!

06/11/2025

Now that breeding season is winding down, we're getting more time to spend with the foals of 2025.

The weaned babies are taking to their daily lessons very quickly and are a pleasure to spend time with! Pictured is Tradewinds Boston, our January foal by Tradewinds Flint and out of Lauricia Black Bess.

He is available if someone were looking for a future partner for riding and/or driving. He is pssm1 n/n via parentage and is expected to mature in the 17hh range like his parents.

Please pm us for further info.

05/03/2025

Took this guy out tonight and took a quick photo in the sunshine and green grass.

We are very pleased with how Hemi has continued to grow up and mature! He has settled into his 'career' really well this year and has a few mares confirmed in foal for 2026 here at home and in clients barns, with a nice variety of mares booked to ship to yet this season.

This is Tradewinds Herrick (Eaglesfield Brigadier x Tradewinds Horoscope, by Lucasia Zodiac).

05/02/2025

We took a few minutes yesterday to visit with a client and inspect their new foals by one of our junior stallions.

It has been incredibly fun to see foals by stallions we bred and raised this season! They're all a bit different from each other, but it's exciting to start cataloging similarities to their siblings and also to aunts and uncles who are still in our program.

The c**t pictured is days old, by Tradewinds Flint (Blooming Grove Midnight x San Lan First Degree, by Raona Commanding Knight) and out of DLF Lucarne (Lucasia Zodiac x DLF Lo**ta, by Cedarfarm Ontario)

04/30/2025

We turned a pair of old ladies, and their token young friend out on pasture to enjoy the beautiful grass fields for a couple hours this morning. The old ladies? Were too busy eating to pay the new digs any mind. Their young pasture mate? Celebrated the space and ability to make friends with every mare and foal who came close enough to the fence.

This is Tradewinds Wynona (Lucasia Zodoac x RyanDay Flash's Willow, by Mount Joy Flash) playing in the field while her grandmother, Lucasia Lady Destine, and Lauricia Black Bess ignored her antics in favor of eating.

04/24/2025

We turned the 2yo mares out with a couple of the mature ladies this spring. They have more room to run and play and a couple supervisors to keep them from getting too bossy.

It also means we get to take 'family' photos like this one. The mare on the right is Tradewinds Diamante, the better-than-half sister to the dam of the filly on the left, Tradewinds Saphira. By all appearances, Saffy seems as if she's going to be a big mare and if she matures to look like her dam and Auntie, we'll be thrilled!

04/15/2025

The stork dropped off a special delivery here a week ago!

Tradewinds Jubilee presented us with this big, pretty grey c**t by Tradewinds Benchmark on the morning of April 4th. Jewel got him out and up with no trouble, but they had a couple issues to work through. Things are looking good now; we are enjoying them meeting Shine and Steve.

Introducing our newest resident - Tradewinds Jimi Hendrix (Tradewinds Benchmark x Tradewinds Jubilee, by Blooming Grove Midnight).

04/10/2025

It is so difficult to take new full-body shots of this guy! Baby Steve is convinced that his humans were put on the earth just to give him help to reach the itchy spots. If an unsuspecting person wanders into their field, they are immediately pressed into service. Don't even think of walking away; he's just going to follow you.

04/06/2025

These three have been spending their days together more and more often recently. This is Lucasia Lady Destine (R), with her daughter Lucasia Barb (L) and Barbs daughter, Tradewinds Bristol (center). We're confident that Bristol will one day grow into yet another quality mare from one of our favorite families.

04/02/2025

Welcome to the world, little guy!

Shine laid down to foal this guy early this morning. It quickly became apparent she needed some help; the foals' head was off to the side and the nose was down instead of up in the normal 'diver' position. Thankfully, after a few tense moments, we managed to shift him enough to assist her with delivery, and he safely made his entrance into the world. Even with his less than conventional entrance into the world, he has hit all his milestones so far!

Ty insists on calling him 'Steve', and since he did the heavy lifting on getting him out and upright, I suppose we can give him this one. So, meet Steve (who will likely get a slightly more professional registered name) by Tradewinds Benchmark and out of Tradewinds Shine (Blooming Grove Midnight x Tradewinds Sizzle, by Cedarfarm Ontario).

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We are a small family farm raising and promoting our homebred Percheron horses at the National and World Levels. We are attempting to stay away from the pedigrees more commonly found at sales and show barns around the country, hoping to produce quality outcross horses who are capable of showing and winning at any level. We must be doing okay, our horses are competing in multiple disciplines and excelling! We are very proud of what we have accomplished and hope to continue to produce attractive, well conformed, well mannered Percheron horses that anyone would be proud to own. We have recently branched into the occasional Percheron cross, they will be held up to the same standards that we have come to expect.