Welcome to Flying M Paints and thank you for visiting our site.

We are located in Ulm, Montana, near Great Falls, and overlooking the Missouri River and the Rockies.

We raise Paint horses, both tobianos and overos; with around five foals each year.  We stand our own stallion, Duke of Eclipse, a sorrel overo; We are also offering Chamois Doc Jack, a palomino tobiano stallion. We also breed to outside stallions occasionally. While our horses do not specialize in any specific venue or category, we prefer to raise all-around useful, intelligent, friendly animals.

I always have a tough time learning to re-calculate the age of my horses, since they all magically became a year older on January 1!!  We are expecting 8-9 foals in 2008, out of 5 different stallions, including 2 from Chamois and 4 from Duke.  It should be fun.

OnTimeIs WhenIGetHere ("Baron") was born on Jan 3; sired by Duke Of Eclipse.  Hmm, looks a lot like his half-sister, born on March 9th....

  Duchess Of Eclipse was born on March 9.  She is out of Sonny Cher, (a daughter of Mr Norfleet), and by our stallion Duke Of Eclipse.  Again, pretty darned nice weather - it didn't get down to freezing overnight, and the ground is dry.

Calypso Eclipse is a sorrel tovero colt, out of Dandy, and by Duke.  I'm three for three on both color and terrific weather!  Well, okay, there was a light rain shower during the night, but Dandy couldn't hold out any longer waiting for a good spring storm!  She had the option of going into the barn, but noooo......  He was born on April 15.

Quincy is a quarter horse (so the fact that there is not a single white hair is totally acceptable!)  Her dam is Watch Doc Jodie and her sire is Beau Bar Prestige, owned by Wendy Brandt of Rocking Diamond B Quarter Horses.  Both she and her sire are buckskin duns.  She was born on April 25.

This is a dun tobiano colt named "Ish".  He's Hunnidun's son (by Chamois Doc Jack, our palomino toby stud).   He was born on April 28; another beautiful, warm, dry day!

This is "Cutter", a solid buckskin with greyish undertones, that will possibly become grulla.  He has blue eyes, so should be striking, even without the paint color.  He is out of Sweet Promenade (our black overo), by a buckskin quarter horse Leos Golden Buckshot, owned by Dave & Susan Ostler.  He arrived on May 6.

Last but not least, Tanka finally arrived on May 14.  He is a palomino toby, out of Peanut, sired by Chamois Doc Jack.

Our facilities include a 4-stall barn, a 3-horse foaling barn with pipe corrals and field, eight 100' long pipe corrals with shelters, a hay shed with attached pipe corral sporting a 30-foot covered feed trough - plenty of room to belly up to the bar, fields ranging from five to thirty acres, a 100x185' pipe arena and 2 round pens.

We are members of Rocky Mountain Breeders Association, where Gail is currently serving as Secretary/Treasurer.  We are also members of Montana Paint Horse Club, where Gail is Webmaster and Past President.

The "Flying" in our name reflects Bob long-time interest in flying small airplanes.  To yield to his interests, we also have a grass airstrip and hangar where he keeps his Kitfox (unless it happens to have my horses' hay in it instead!).

Since Gail apparently doesn't have enough to do, she is helping to start up a new Paint horse club - Central Montana Paint Horse Club -  with the goal of offering more regional, varied events that MPHC doesn't offer, such as Omoksee-type speed events, cowhorse events, more informal trail rides - whatever the new membership wants to help with and participate in.

Thanks for dropping by; Bob and Gail Morris

Central Montana Paint Horse Club