Welcome to 3G Farms

 

Three G Farms Equine Center, Inc., is an equine facility located three miles northeast of Ames, Iowa.  Our goal is to provide premier services for carriage drivers in Iowa and the Midwest.  We train all breeds to drive, and offer driving lessons and clinics for beginning, intermediate, and advanced drivers.  We are home to schooling shows, driving trials, and driving events sponsored by Best of Iowa in Traces Society (BITS) (For more information about BITS, please check www.bitsiowa.org.) 

Our vision is to be the center of carriage driving activities in Iowa. 

Our mission is to take the very best care of the horses that have been entrusted to us, and to offer services to their owners that answer their needs for quality care, clinics, lessons, and places to enjoy their animals.

We are always asked, "What does Three G stand for?"  Before we found carriage driving, we raised and raced Trottingbred ponies, a breed developed by crossing Standardbreds with Shetlands, Hackneys, and Welsh ponies. We got involved in this activity because Earl’s dad, Walter Morris, who lived in southwestern Michigan, was racing the Michigan-Indiana Trottingbred circuit. One summer almost 30 years ago we took leaves of absence from our jobs to travel with Earl’s folks to the races. Earl’s son, Brian, also living in Michigan at the time, purchased a young trotter, which he named “Three G Summer” in honor of the fact that three generations would be racing together that summer. The pony is long gone, but the name lives on in our farm name.