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UPDATED APRIL 08, 2012 ~ CHECK OUT OUR WINNERS PAGE
 Olson Performance Horses is a family owned and operated horse boarding and training facility located
25 miles east of Denver in the beautiful Rocky Mountain State of Colorado. We are
dedicated to bringing our clients and their horses excellence in care and training at the
barn, resulting in success in the show ring. We specialize in both Western and Hunt Seat Futurity
horses. As a family, we feel blessed and privileged to be able to work in the horse industry,
and it is our belief that with hard work, good horses, perseverance and God's help, great things
are possible. We appreciate that our client's have a choice when it comes to the care and training
of their horses and so we endeavor to give every client and every horse the best possible
opportunity to succeed in whatever path they choose to follow. We believe that attention to
the smallest detail brings the greatest success.
 Gerald Olson (Jerry) was born in London, England. Jerry moved with his family to Colorado in February of 1997. His Mother is British and his Father is a native of Colorado.
He and his family own and operate "Eagles Wings Ranch," home of Olson Performance Horses, a horse boarding and training facility.
The facility is located just 25 miles east of Denver in the beautiful Rocky Mountain State of Colorado. When Jerry graduated from High School, he was recognized by the National Merit
Scholarship Board for having S.A.T. scores that ranked in the top 2% of the nation. As a result, he was recruited by some of the top Universities in the country, including Harvard, Air Force and MIT.
Jerry was accepted into the prestigious Denver University believing that this would afford him the opportunity to be close to the business and do what he loved most, work with and train horses.
As Olson Performance Horses started to take off more quickly than first anticipated, Jerry soon realized that he would have to make a choice in the direction that his career would take him.
 He chose his first love, the horses, believing that this is the path that he was meant to follow.
At the young age of 23 he has already experienced success in the
horse industry having numerous horses and clients in the top ten at some of the major shows in the US including The AQHA World Show, The Reichert Celebration,
NSBA World Show, and AQHA Congress. He specializes in training both Western and Hunt Seat Horses. Jerry's first Quarter Horse Congress win came
when he was named the 2009 Congress Champion (NSBA) and Congress Reserve Champion (AQHA) in the Green Trail on his (then) 5 year old filly 'Shes Bens Mercedes'.
"It was great to hear my name called as Champion and Reserve Champion at one of the most prestigious horse shows in the world and
hopefully this is the first of many Congress wins". Another of his most recent successes was placing 3rd at the 2010 AQHA World Show
in the Junior Trail class, showing the 2006 filly 'Ima Lopin Ytoo Slow' (owner, Mary Ellen Honeyfield). "I thought we had a good pattern,
my main goal was just to make it into the top ten considering it was both mine and the horses first appearance at the World Show, to be 3rd
 and finish in the company of the best trainers in the business was definitely rewarding and very exciting." Both of these videos can be viewed on the winners page of our website.
His young Hunt Seat horses are also experiencing success including 'Only Blue Prints' who, with Kathryn Olson, Jerry's youngest sister in the irons, was
the 2010 Reserve Congress Champion NA HUS, Top Five in the Limited Non-Pro Maturity and Top Ten in the Open Non-Pro Maturity, and all this in Kathryn's first year as an amateur exhibitor! Kathryn (who was also Reserve Congress Champion in the NA Trail and Top Ten in Amateur Trail showing 'Shes Bens Mercedes'), says of her brother/trainer, "It's awesome riding with Jerry because not only is he family, but he is fully committed to and invested in each and every one of his clients and works so hard to help you reach your goals and achieve success! I couldn't ask for more"! So what makes it worthwhile to Jerry? "When I not only have personal success, but when I see my clients succeed it makes all the hard work worth while, plus I love working with the young horses and to see them develop and succeed is extremely rewarding to me." Jerry is an active member of the AQHA, APHA, NSBA and USEF.
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