Lazy K Five Ranch

Lazy K Five Ranch

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In 1958 Mike Knapp registered the Lazy K brand with the state of California and started running cows in the Fresno area. In the fall of 1959, while attending Fresno State, Mike met a young “aggie” named Sherry. Mike knew from that day on, she would be his partner in their future cattle business. Sherry even owned her own cow named Bernadine but little did Mike know they would also end up in the horse business. According to Sherry, “Early on, we were having trouble finding good horses that could gather cattle off of 45,000 thousand acres at elevations up to 6,500 ft, so we started raising our own and one thing just led to another”.

Nearly 60 years later, Mike & Sherry along with their children and grandchildren are still running cattle in the San Joaquin Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains as well as operating an extensive horse operation. Lazy K Ranch has become known for its unique pairing of good-minded, athletic working mares with the best ranch and performance horse bloodlines in the country. When you see a horse with a Lazy K on its hip, you know that horse can do an honest day’s work and carries the bloodlines from some of the top money earners, including High Brow Cat, Shinning Spark, Peptoboonsmal, Kay Cee Leagure, Doc O Lena and Peppy San Badger.

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