Doug Smiley, Five Star Farms owner and trainer, wasn't born on a Tennessee Walking Horse but he certainly grew up on them. Doug came by his love of Walkers honestly. His father, Doug Smiley Sr. has bred, trained, and shown the versatile breed for many years. Doug has been training, breeding, and successfully showing Tennessee Walkers since he was a small child. He has also been educated by working with some of Tennessee's most famous Walking Horse trainers.

Doug's degree in psychology gives him unique insight into the psyche of the horse. His training methods, based on working with each horse as an individual, allow Doug to bring out the very best each animal.

Doug was head trainer at Walkers West, in Kaufman Texas, for several years before leaving to pursue his lifelong dream of a training and breeding barn of his own.

Doug Smiley is well known and highly respected by those in the know in the Tennessee Walking Horse and Spotted Saddle Horse industries. And he is admired and respected by all who have brought horses to him for training.

Like father like daughter. Doug takes little Lenox on her
first ride aboard the Spotted Horse Stallion, Powder River.