1659 X Avenue Ames, Iowa 50014
Cell: 515-231-8805

Twinbrook Arabians

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Twinbrook Arabians

Our farm is located west of Ames, Iowa, three miles south of the #142 exit off highway 30, where we raise corn, beans, hay and a small herd of Angus cattle and Arabian horses. Our farm is located where I grew up and where we purchased additional land that my Grandparents had purchased in 1902.

In 2024 we received the Century Farm award for which we were very proud to have achieved.

Video by: Lonny Hitchen | Audio by: Lois Selby Perry

Dick retired in 2000 from Iowa State University where he worked for 45 years. Most of those years were as the contract and grants officer. He passed away September 24, 2024. His pride and joy was the horses we have bred over the years.

We got involved in all parts of the Arabian Horse world by chairing horse shows, serving as delegates to the National conventions and Region 11 activities. We were founding members of the Arabian Horse Society of Iowa and the Azraff/Ferzon Breeders group. I have served on the boards of the horse clubs as well as the Eastern Crabbet Arabian Horse Society.

In 2007 we received the Lifetime Achievement Award from them. Most importantly in our lives are our two sons Michael and Daniel and our grandsons, Colin and Ryan.

In 2007 we received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Eastern Crabbet Arabian Society (ECAS).

Photography and preserving and documenting our family history and Arabian horse history with pictures and videos as well as our horses has been my passion. Dick’s has been the pedigrees and historical research of the Skowronek bred horses and preserving those lines. An emphasis on preserving as he was always looking for a horse to buy or breed with lines he felt were being lost. Later he became obsessed with including the bloodlines of Ragala (*Mirage x *Rifala) in the horses we bred or purchased and at this time we probably have more crosses to her than anyone to date.