ART GAYTAN

    Mr. Gaytan has been a professional horse trainer for forty years, and is now retired, to the Pahrump Nevada area.  He has handled and trained as many as fifteen different breeds for all disciplines such as Western, English, Jumping, Trail, Gymkhana, Parade, Cow Work, Reining, Driving and Dressage.  His credits include three World Championships and many California Championships.

  He traveled to Australia several times to conduct horsemanship & safety clinics.  His clinics include Israel, Costa Rica, Thailand, Philippines, Spain, Germany and throughout the United States, to render advice on conformation, training techniques, safety measures and the psychology of the horse.

   Mr. Gaytan is also an accredited horse show judge (over thirty years), with the Pinto Association, the International Andalusian & Lusitano Horses, USEF, Appaloosa, Ponies of America, International Buckskin, American Buckskin, United States Equestrian Federation, American Miniature and the Freisian World show.

Art has shown in all the arena events in Western-English-Reining-Working Cow Horse-Cutting-Roping-Games-Jumping-Working Hunter and Polo. In 1975, he received the honor of having the Hunt Seat World Champion, Saddle Seat World Champion, and High Point World Champion, all on one horse.

Mr. Gaytan has had articles in several horse magazines such as: Horse Illustrated, Equus, The Australian Quarter Horse, The Horse of Kings, etc.  The Los Angeles Times and Herald Examiner. He is particularly well noted for his seminars on horse psychology and on horse behavior. His expertise is in the safety of handling all types of horses.

For more than thirty years, Art Gaytan has been judging pinto horses. Judge Gaytan has left his mark of accomplishments way beyond the realm of "judging". It just so happens that the first horse he ever trained was a Pinto and he showed him at the fairs in and around Ventura & Santa Barbara counties in California. He has continued to promote the Pinto horse throughout his equine endeavors. In those early years, he was a buckaroo in Battle Mountain, Winnemucca, Paradise Valley, and Elko, Nevada. He felt fortunate to have worked with men who were interested in making good horses, the vaquero style, and willing to pass the information on and from that he realized his desire to start training horses as a profession and in 1970 he opened Gaytan Training in Huntington Beach, California.

He has trained thirty celebrities and made three horse movies. He has provided horses for eighteen different commercials and has been a mounted Marshall in the Rose Parade for thirteen consecutive years. He has been to Australia, Israel, the Phillipines, Costa Rica, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Thailand and throughout the U.S. giving seminars on horse psychology and horse behavior. Art Gaytan’s equine talents have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Horse Illustrated, Equus, the Australian Quarter Horse, The Horse of Kings, The Hollywood Reporter .several equine magazines in Israel, as well as various books, tv shows and videos.

Mr. Gaytan is an accredited horse show judge with the Pinto Association (over thirty years), the International Andalusian & Lusitano Horses, USEF, Appaloosa, Ponies of America, International Buckskin, American Buckskin, United States Equestrian Federation, American Miniature and Freisians. He has judged the Pinto World, the Ponies of America National show, the Andalusian National show, the Freisian World show, the American Miniature World show, and the International Buckskin World Show.