Paul Gonya
Owner
Paul purchased the ranch in 2006. A successful businessman from San Diego, California, Paul has a diverse background in banking, real estate development, and custom home building. His love and interest in the horse business began some 15 years ago. He has been actively involved in showing, breeding and raising Quarter Horses. While owning the stallion Manwiththemoves, Paul was involved in Stallion Row at the All American Quarter Horse Congress and served on the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Association Board. Paul has shown his horse, Docs Pleasure Drug, with much success to include wins at the All American Quarter Horse Congress and multiple top ten finishes at the AQHA Select World Show. He has two beautiful daughters and three grandchildren.
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Becky Shelton
Ranch Manager
Becky Shelton is stepping up to manage Oklahoma Stud Ranch. With her background as Assistant Controller for a large food company and a lifetime involvement in owning, raising, and showing Quarter Horses, managing the day to day operations of the ranch as its emphasis shifts back to being a training facility is a natural fit. Becky is comfortable behind a desk on the computer, sitting on a horse, or driving a tractor, and brings both business and horse sense to the job. She earned her BS degree at Kansas State University. She is a fierce competitor in the show pen and just retired her AQHA mare, So Suddenly Good (April), and is busy bringing along her new all-around horse, Ruby Due Good, and a western pleasure prospect, April's first foal, Impulsive Barpasser. Becky is the proud mother of two children, a daughter in dental school in Kentucky and a son who is a professional polo player.
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Nicole Johnston
Trainer
Trainer
Nicole Johnston has been in the saddle since she was eighteen months old. Her first competition was at the age of two, winning the year end award for lead line and halter divisions in the Rolling Hills Saddle Club. Nicole was competing in the Georgia Hunter Jumper Association (GHJA) walk trot canter divisions by the time she was four. Nicole won the GHJA regular member short stirrup year end champion award . Moving up to small ponies she qualified her small pony in the GHJA pony equitation finals and USEF pony finals, winning eighth over all in small green pony division. The following year she qualified her medium pony for USEF pony finals, winning fifth over all in the medium green pony division in Fairfield, Connecticut. Nicole moved on to horses and won the Stateline Equitation Challenge. Nicole qualified and competed in the Mcclay at regionals. Competing all over the south, she won the high point champion GHJA regular member children adult jumper division for two years straight. Nicole has been successfully training for the last several years using natural horsemanship and her own past experience. Nicole provides her clients with the knowledge not only to succeed in competition but the knowledge to become an accomplished equestrian that respects their mounts and colleagues. Nicole trains and schools ponies and horses not just for the show ring, but to be all around safe mounts for their riders.
Contact information:
Phone: (404) 513-2037
E-Mail: nmctag87@aol.com
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