WELCOME TO DOUBLE B ACRES

     

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Our trainer, Randy P. Melton, was born in Houston, Texas, September 19, 1974.   He was raised in Missouri but spent a few years as a young boy in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Ball Ground, Georgia, where he had his first experience being bucked off.   (But Butterscotch didn’t sway him from his future course.)

Randy discovered his love for horses when he was very young, and it has grown as the years went by.   He began training horses when he was a freshman in high school.   He went directly into the Army after graduating from high school.

         

In the Army, he became an Airborne Infantryman with the 82nd Airborne Division 3rd Battalion of the 505th.   During his time in the Army he began pursuing a rodeo career, as well as learning to sky dive and scuba dive.

   

He missed riding so much while stationed in Ft. Kobbie, Panama, that he found and bought a horse to ride in the jungles and on the beaches of Panama.

When Randy returned to the States, he was stationed in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.   There he began to pursue his rodeo career.   He rode in bull riding and bareback bronc riding, qualifying for the finals in two different associations:    the Southern Rodeo Association and the Circle T Rough Stock Roundup Rodeo.

After his time was up in the Army, he returned to Missouri and began his career in horse training once again.   He still remains active in the rodeo circuit in saddle bronc riding.  

A Rodeo Cowboy's Prayer

Randy is a member of the International Professional Rodeo Association and the Missouri Rodeo Association (MRCA).   He also holds memberships with the American Paint Horse Association (APHA), American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) and the Missouri Equine Council.

         

His training methods center around pressure and release, patience, light hands and instilling trust.   When Randy was asked if he thought he had a gift, he told us, "No, I just know how to read the horse’s body language and try to relay the right body language back to the horse that I am working with."  We think others would say as we do, that Randy most definitely has a gift.   Along with our clients, we appreciate him sharing his gift with us here at Double B Acres.