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About 6666's Ranch

Established in 1870, the historical Four Sixes Ranch is located in Guthrie, Texas. Today the Four Sixes encompasses nearly 350,000 acres in West Texas and is the largest individually owned ranch property in the State.

Much about the Four Sixes Ranch has not changed since it was founded. The cattle, numbering in the thousands, are still worked by horseback and the broodmares and foals lead a natural life roaming the many pastures. Somehow both slow-paced and swift-moving at the same time, the 21st Century seamlessly blends with the time-honored values, traditions and methods utilized for the past 138 years.

The Sixes breeding program, lead by Dr. Glenn Blodgett, has consistently produced and developed Quarter Horses which are sought for their high levels of performance and marketability. The Four Sixes' Performance Quarter Horses have included sires like Joe Hancock, Hollywood Gold, Grey Badger II and Tanquery Gin. Top sires in the race-bred lineup have included Dash For Cash, Special Effort and Streakin Six. The Four Sixes Ranch was the 1993 recipient of the AQHA Best Remuda Award.

The Four Sixes has one of the most sophisticated breeding and fully equipped veterinary facilities in the country. Attended by three full-time veterinarians and a number of staff, the ranch provides veterinary services for their own horses and those from local ranches. The reproduction division accommodates the ranch's 20 stallions and breeds >1,200 mares annually. The laboratory is equipped with all of the latest technology such as a Hamilton-Thorne IVOS computerized semen analyzer, controlled rate cell freezer, Nucleocounter fluorescent sperm counting device and all other equipment required for providing state of the art semen processing. The ranch is considered second to none in its dedication to quality.

In addition to on-site breeding and mare management, other reproductive services offered by Four Sixes Ranch include cooled and frozen semen, all aspects of embryo transfers both on-site and shipped embryo implantation and an innovative cooled semen courier service known as Sixes Direct, that serves the Aubrey/Pilot Point and Weatherford areas of North Texas. Through its affiliation with SBS, The Four Sixes will provide semen freezing services for the stallions standing at the ranch in Guthrie as well as for stallions in the immediate surrounding area.
 

Staff

Glenn Blodgett, DVM Dr. Blodgett completed his DVM credentials at Texas A & M University and had a busy private practice in Spearman, Texas before being enlisted as the Four Sixes Ranch Equine Division Manager in 1982.

Ashley Maly, Equine Reproductive Technician Born and raised in East Texas Ashley was transplanted to West Texas when she attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas where she graduated with a Bachelor in Animal Science, emphasis in Reproduction. In 2007 Maly completed a internship at the 6666 Ranch and later joined the staff as the Equine Reproductive Technician.