4 LAZY P ~ "COLOR~CLASS~CONFORMATION"

Site Updated 06/10/2010

2010 Foals!! Mares Page!!

We would like to Welcome to our breeding lineup...

His sire is a full brother to High Brow Cat

Standing at the Rockin J Bar S Ranch in Phoenix for the breeding season.
Contact Jean Simmons at 623-581-7492

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The 4 Lazy P Ranch raises halter, performance, and cutting prospects from some of the finest stallions in America. Their horses are versatile anywhere from the show ring to simply working on the ranch.

The 4 Lazy P Ranch is home to Craig and Karen Steele. They have been raising Quarter/Paints together for over 37 years.Craig is a well known Arizona business man and Karen a noted tattoo artist. Karen has tattooed some of the finest horses around. She can be seen in the Paint Horse Journal August 2000 edition. She has a true passion for bringing relief to those horses that don’t have the natural dark area around their eyes.

The 4 Lazy P Ranch currently stands Karen’s BearKatt (known to most as Bailey). Bailey is the Arizona Paint Horse Club HIGH POINT Champion Aged Stallion for 2006 and 2007. He has been shown successfully in Amateur Halter by Craig Steele and in Open Halter by Armando Hernandez. His foals are eligible for the APHA Breeder’s Trust and Arizona Paint Horse Club Futurities.

The 4 Lazy P Ranch continues to be under the expertise of Central Arizona Equine. Attending veterinarians include Dr. Jim Bleak DVM and Dr. Tim Delaney DVM.

The 4 Lazy P Ranch also has a few up coming stars from bloodlines including Color Me Smart, Freckles Playboy, Smart Lil Highbrow, Like a Diamond, Wild Thing, Teninas First, Bob's Hickory Rio, It's Just about Me, Juan Bat Cat and Karen’s BearKatt.

We may have the horse for you. Feel free to contact us.

We wanted to share the history behind our brand and where it originated. In the early 1900’s Craig’s great grandfather, Neils Peter Anderson, drove a freight wagon between Price, Utah and Myton, Utah. The trip was around 60 miles each way. With a distance that far and the heavy freight wagons, there were several places along the way to change out the team of horses. Pete Anderson had four young boys and on occasion they would ride in the wagon with their dad on these trips. On one trip Pete pulled into the station to change the team of horses and the four boys were all asleep in the back of the wagon. The station master was amused at the boys and their laziness. On the next trip the boys did not accompany their father and when he pulled into the station, the station master asked where the four lazy Pete’s were as he didn’t know the four boys names? Great Grandpa Anderson was so tickled by the comment, he decided to make a brand representing the four lazy Pete’s. He started branding his sheep and cattle with the 4 Lazy P brand. He passed the brand down to his son Eugene Anderson and he in turn passed it to his grandson, Craig Steele. The brand has been in the family over 100 years. We plan on passing it to our children and grandchildren in hopes the brand will stay in the family for many more generations.

My Great Grandfather and his freight wagon. The picture is from around 1908

Visitor# Since 05/29/2007

Attending Veterinarians:
Central Arizona Equine
Dr. Jim Bleak DVM and Dr. Tim Delaney DVM

Photo Credits:
Action Photography, I Shoot Horses, Amber Anderson, Kim Osterland, Mary Christiano and Tami Gramont.