
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.