The "IT" brand was one of the original Pring Ranch brands when Jack's grandfather Ed Pring settled in the Colorado Springs area.  The Pring ranch was not only a cattle ranch running at times  up to three hundred pair .  They also raised thoroughbred horses and sold them to Camp Carson now Fort Carson as Calvary mounts.  The family was noted for quality horses and cattle.  Some of the horses were also used as polo pony's.  With the progress of the growth of Colorado Springs in this area the Ranch has went from a large ranching operation with Willett (Jack's father) & Roy Pring to a smaller horse ranch owned by Jack & Dixie Pring.  Now instead of specializing in furnishing remount horses for the army and polo pony's performance horses are raised and carry the brand. 

All the horses we raise trace back to one man TM Jones and his horse PA JONES.  TM knew a good horse.  TM had the amazing ability to pick out of a pen of colts which one would be just a little better than the rest.  I hope he has passed that ability on to us.  Sitting around the supper table at the poor farm (what TM and Minnie called their home in Dill City OK) Jack and I would listen to TM tell of the great horse's he had handled while he worked for Bud Warren.  Now how I wished I would have taped those times.  Jack & I met TM after we had purchased a little Pa Jones horse named Dutch Deck.  Dutch was only 13 hand's but could run with the best of them.  He was 5 when we bought him and had only about 60 day's under saddle.  I put him on barrels and in six weeks entered him in the GRA Barrel Derby. Which he won.  Jack & I decided we would like to breed our mare to Pa Jones.  I contacted the Quarter Horse association and that is how we met TM.  I will never forget when Jack called and asked TM if Pa Jones was still around and could we breed to him TM told Jack we could bring our mare down to his place and if he liked her he would breed her but if not we could just take her back to Colorado.  So we drove twelve hours not knowing if he would breed our mare to PA JONES.  He did like our mare and the rest is history for us.  TM offered us a partnership in the colts after Little Fred Jones a little red horse out of Flit Flite the first fillie born to Flit and sired by PA JONES had won consistently for us with only limited   training on the barrels.   I had thirty days of barrel training on Fred when I entered him in his first race and he set an arena record.  Fred went on to win over $60,000 in barrel racing.  Our partnership lasted for over 19 yr. until he passed away on July 9, 1999.  When people would ask TM how our partnership worked his answer was.  "I don't tell them how to train and ride my horses and they don't tell me how to raise them." TM bred some of the best horses for over 50 years.  He was proud to receive the certificate from the AQHA for being a breeder for 40 years and was close to receiving one for 50 years of breeding quarter horses.  TM was the stallion manager for the legendary Bud Warren.  Bud bred and raised some of the greatest if not the greatest horses the quarter horse world has seen.  Such as the legendary Leo, Sugar Bars, Otoe, Croton Oil and the Greatest of all Jet Deck the sire of Pa Jones.  Pa Jones a son of Jet Deck out of Sugree Bars was TM's breeding foundation.  Pa Jones was not bred to the best of the best mares but he produced champions in spite of that.  Bud Warren took TM under his wing and taught him the horse business.  TM left us the horse flesh to prove that he had paid attention to his lessons.  Since TM passed away we have the Stallions and one of the original Pa Jones ("Toya Pa") mares which is the foundation of our breeding program.  We bred Toya to Firewater Flit. (Firewater Flit and Little Fred Jones were related and I wanted to get as close to Fred's breeding as we could.)  She had a beautiful palomino Stud colt we named after Little Fred Jones .  Firewater Fred Jones we hope will carry on the Pa Jones line for us as well as be an asset to Firewater Flit's off spring.  When you see the                              

brand you know it is not by accident these horses are here but by a breeding program with its foundation going back to Bud Warrens foundation by way of TM Jones a man we miss very much.

Directions to Pring Ranch

From I-25 take exit 149 Woodman rd. apx. 13 miles east to Hwy 24 (Woodman rd dead ends into Hwy 24). Turn right to first light (apx. ¼ mile to Meridian turn left on Meridian 1 mile to Falcon Hwy. Turn left on Falcon Hwy 12 miles to stop sign at Ellicott Hwy.  Turn right on Ellicott Hwy. 1 mile to Garrett Rd. Turn left on Garrett rd. go three miles to ranch.  Garrett rd dead ends into the ranch.

Call 719-649-0092 or 0090 if you need directions.

Coming from Springfield I think it might be shorter for you to go up thru Eads to Hwy 94. take hwy 94 west to Ellicott. Turn right (north) at Ellicott Hwy and go 5 miles to Garrett Rd. turn right on Garrett (east) 3 miles.  Garret rd. becomes our drive way.  If you have any question just call. Look forward to seeing you