Our Mission Statement

Our mission is to preserve the historical significance and physical integrity of: to offer for community use; and to present Simmons’ Stables-a nationally significant historic site– to current and future generations that Mexico, Missouri was known as “the Saddlehorse Capital of the World”.

L.B Splint Barnett up on Red Chief (owned by OH Brown of Mexico, MO) Circa 1911

Saving a Major Stable and Saddlehorse History

Built in Mexico, Missouri, in 1887, Simmons’ Stable is the oldest known building in the United States that was continuously devoted to boarding and training champion American Saddlebred horses. Simmons’ Stable was a working stable until 2001 and ended a long, distinguished history of horses, trainers, and owners that classified Mexico as the original “Saddlehorse Capital of the World.”

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