Marilyn's Tack Shop is surrounded by the 600 pastoral acres of the Kelvin Grove Stock Farm in Hillsboro, Oregon. There has been a tack shop at Kelvin Grove Stock Farm since 1954. Conveniently located on Oregon Highway 219 between Newberg and Hillsboro, Marilyn's is just a quick, beautiful drive from most points in Oregon.

The Tack Shop is open from 1:00 pm until 6:00 pm Thursdays thru Sundays. Especially for trainers with more free-time in the beginning of the week, Marilyn is happy to open her shop by appointment for serious clients. On an appointment basis, Marilyn's services become truly personalized when a client comes with their horse to use the indoor arena to check the saddle fit for both horse and rider. Marilyn has extensive experience in problem saddle fitting.

Marilyn is fussy about the way that her saddles are put together and she has a true devotion to quality. Because of this, Marilyn's Tack Shop offers a variety of high-quality products, including her own brand of hand-crafted saddles, specialty bits and a wonderful selection of equestrian gifts with true western flair! This is the place to find products to make life with your horse easier, such as rolling tack carts, coiling hoses, and more.

Marilyn was raised on a working cow outfit in Northern California, and she has always been involved with horses. A clever lady, Marilyn has years of horse lore and wisdom to impart and a special love and knowledge of the American Quarter Horses she and her husband, Jim, breed and raise at Kelvin Grove Stock Farm.

For a time in the 1960's,Kelvin Grove Stock Farm was the largest Arabian breeding farm on the West Coast. Now Kelvin Grove raises Quarter Horses. Jim Brown was an early supporter of the Quarter Horse Breed - he attended the first-ever meeting of the Oregon Quarter Horse Association. The Farm features King Fritz bloodlines with a number of daughters of Bueno Chex in the broodmare band. Marilyn remembers King Fritz himself and likes the trainability, conformation and the way his descendants "like to do their job." To outcross with the line-bred King Fritz horses, they use a grandson of Doc Bar and a son of Peppy San out of a Magnolia Bar daughter. Doc Hollybug Gold, their stallion, has confirmed the success of Kelvin Grove's breeding program by siring show-pen winners, including a Non-Pro Reining Winner in 2000 at Quarter Horse Congress.

Marilyn Brown of Marilyn's Tack Shop truly loves what she does: raising good horses, meeting wonderful people and hopefully, being of service to their customers and friends.

Source used in the About Us story includes direct writing from an article written by Diann Conser of the Cascade Horseman, published in June 2000 and January 2001, and an unidentified article published in 1996. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - Marilyn's Tack Shop, Kelvin Grove Stock Farm, Diann Conser and Cascade Horseman

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