Homesick Angels Farm is a small, family-owned and operated sporthorse breeding farm, nestled in the foothills of the beautiful Cascade Mountains in western Washington. We are Rick and Kate Triplett, and our horses are our life's passion. Rick's business for well over a decade has been in construction and renovation of riding arena footings and equine facilities. Improvements Plus, Inc., has grown slowly to be known for quality work and customer satisfaction, due primarily to Rick's extraordinary customer service and problem solving capability. Please check out a few of the finished projects on the Improvements Plus pages! Rick also specializes in retraining horses who have developed "problems", with an emphasis on working with the horses with their owners - retraining the human is just as important as retraining the horse! We have been raising and selling sound, sane, athletic and talented horses for over twenty years, using Appendix Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred mares selected for mind, conformation and pedigree to produce youngsters suited to go on as hunters, jumpers, event and dressage horses - or anything else their owners care to do with them. We first began seriously targetting the sporthorse niche in 1994, with our champion colt, RK Paratrooper, lovingly remembered as "Troops" . We still own and love his older full brother, Pokey, our senior stallion. In 2004, we went all out, purchasing a purebred Irish Draught stallion prospect, ManuForti's Touch Down, from ManuForti Farms. "Oliver" is bred from the best of the Irish Draught, being a son of the very successful stallion, Touch of the Blues and out of an outstanding Select Hornby Premium mare. In 2005 we made the "jump" to an all Irish Draught Sporthorse breeding program,and all our broodmares have been bred only to approved Registered Irish Draught (RID) stallions since then. In September of 2007, Oliver was inspected and approved as RID - Registered Irish Draught - by two Inspectors from the Mother Society in Ireland. This provides full breeding approval for his get to be registered with the Irish Draught Horse Society of North America (IDHSNA) and with the Irish Draught Horse Society of Canada. Oliver is of very traditional Irish Draught type, with a kind and loving disposition, tremendous bone, correct structure and movement, and a lovely refined head. He is truly a joy to live with! See Oliver here. We now have several wonderful young Irish Draught Sport Horses of various ages, ready to go on to new homes. Please see our "For Sale" page and check out the youngsters who are still not of age to leave. To see a few of the horses that we have bred, raised, shown and sold over the past several years, take a look at our "Success Stories" page. All our Thoroughbred pedigrees are available at http://www.pedigreequery.com, which is a TB-only database. The non-TB pedigrees are on http://www.allbreedpedigree.com. Visitors are always welcome, please call for an appointment to visit and view our horses; or email us, if you're too far away to just "stop by for a visit". Rick and Kate Triplett Homesick Angels Farm, LLC Improvements Plus, Inc.