At The Heart Of Honest Success, There Is
Trust, Commitment, And Hard Work.
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ony Steiner has been a part of the Arabian horse industry since attending his first Arabian Nationals as a youth in 1976. Growing up in Minnesota, he saw the evolution of the Arabian halter horse through many of the breed’s premier breeding horses and programs. This beginning sparked a passion and a desire to learn everything about the Arabian halter horse. Through years of hard work and commitment to the breed, Tony became a compassionate and dedicated individual with a signature way of training, breeding, and presentation of Arabian halter horses. His experience and training style carried over into the show ring as Tony garnered top awards at the National, Regional, Scottsdale, and International level. He also holds the prestige of handling the youngest horse ever to be named supreme champion in Argentina. While Tony treasures each of these accomplishments, his passion lies in something even more important that he hopes to leave the Arabian world. From his perspective as a leading halter trainer, he takes pride in being able to transfer his abilities into the hands of amateur handlers. Working with amateurs and enhancing their abilities to show the Arabian halter horse has become something of a trademark for Tony—something that does not always come easily to horse trainers. His amateurs have attained top awards at regional shows and national events as well as top amateur futurity shows Minnesota Fall Festival, Iowa Gold Star, and in Scottsdale Signature classes. Many other handlers have experienced their first horse show or won their first blue at a Class “A” show—equally important feats. For Tony, one highlight was one of his handlers being named APAHA Junior Halter Showman of the Year for their efforts at Youth Nationals. 364 | ARABIAN HORSE TIMES
Through promoting a sense of community and building a relationship with the horse, Tony’s mission as a horse trainer goes beyond the desire to receive major accolades. In his training, the horse’s future remains at the forefront of concern—an integral part of the program. And this proves as asset as countless halter horses trained by Tony have gone on to have long and successful performance careers. Another aspect of horse training that Tony’s lifetime experience has afforded him is his ability spot a potential champion. He is inspired by the possibility of finding some of the very best horses out there and then developing their careers. A few of his discoveries have been the straight Egyptian stallion, The Elixir, top sire Express Male, all-time leading NSH sire Sting Ray, all-time leading harness horse Bey Fire Express, leading sire of national champion half-Arabian halter horses Color Of Fame and national champion lC Simply Radiant. Most recently he has brought Skoroneek IA + to the Arabian horse worlds attention by being winning the bronze championship at Scottsdale and us national champion 8 and over stallion. For all your needs in training, showing, lessons, evaluations, breeding, and marketing of the Arabian horse, contact Tony Steiner. Through all the years and all the evolution that the Arabian halter horse has seen, the one quality that has not changed for Tony is his love of the Arabian horse. Being entrusted with the livelihood and future of these incredible animals and working every day to develop a relationship between horse and owner, Tony’s system of trust, commitment, and hard work makes every day at the barn a day in which he can be proud.