Moana Morgans was established in the 1970s by my grandfather, Marvin Radtke, who bred Morgan horses for working use on his cattle ranch in Hall, Montana. His bloodlines are still alive in our broodmares, as is his great passion for horses. This breeding program has been a generational adventure as the Moana and EMR Morgan prefixes have been passed down through four generations of the family. These programs have become more defined in their purposes but the core value is still there, to produce quality Morgan Horses.
This passion not only for Morgans, but simply for the horse and all things equine, has been a labor of love for our family. We want to not only produce talented Morgan sport horses, but also to share our knowledge of horses with our clients. We have established a positive, supportive and inspirational atmosphere at our barn that creates a solid platform for accomplishment and enjoyment. We want our clients to feel they are a part of our team, and for them to accomplish every goal they already had, and to envision and achieve new ones!
To help accomplish our mission of creating a balanced and sustainable training life for both horse and rider, we have established a program of bringing in clinicians multiple times a year. This helps not only the client and horse, but also gives us as trainers insight in helping you and your horse move forward together. We also offer schooling shows at our barn multiple times per year, and we compete at USDF-recognized shows as a barn family. Over the years, this program has proven to help our clients achieve their goals and to inspire new goals they didn’t see possible. From a coaching perspective, we have found it to be important for clients to find a suitable program, set goals, commit to the program required to achieve those goals, and to let us help them reach further in their riding careers than they thought possible!
In addition to having had great success with our training program in coaching clients to their goals and beyond, we have created a breeding program from over 50 years of thoughtful breeding that has connected talented bloodlines of Morgans and produced progeny who have competed to Grand Prix dressage. Not only do we have the honor of breeding these beautiful creatures, but we ride and train what we produce, which gives us a unique perspective. Our horses are not only talented, but they possess temperaments that make them trainable and enjoyable for both the adult amateur and trainer alike.
We hope you’ll join our team, and discover yourself reaching goals you didn’t think attainable!