David Pitts trains world class roping, reining and working cow horses. The Double P Farm in Cantonment, Florida, owned by David and his wife, Mirka, is a facility designed for complete training of young reining, roping and cow horse prospects all the way to their early show careers as amateur and professional mounts. David's philosophy, that a solid foundation results in sound minds, bodies, great performances and longevity, means that the youngest prospects are handled using natural horsemanship methods. Usually Mirka, a Parelli Natural Horsemanship Level 4 Student, starts the young horses. As 2-3 year olds, they begin their development as performance horses.

    As both trainer and coach, David has trained several of these horses and their riders to World Championships. ( see Highlights below). David's success stems from more than 35 years of daily commitment to learning, working, training, performing, and showing. The spectrum of his background is broad; his experience is priceless. He got his first horse when he was 7 years old and has been riding and working with horses ever since. As a 12 year old, his gift with horses earned him jobs excercising western pleasure horses and starting 2 year olds under saddle. At 13, David started his roping career, winning his first roping competitions when he was 14 years old.

   As a young man he was the assistant trainer in three western disciplines, working wih cutting trainer, Russ Deason, roping trainer, Cliff Chancellor, and western pleasure trainer, H. L. Graham, all in the Pensacola area. During this period David also enjoyed a 2-year stint as a Professional Rodeo rider, calf and team roping.

    David spent a year in Ocala apprenticing under farrier, Pratt Perry, and 2 more years as an assistant trainer on an Ocala thoroughbred farm. Moving on to Mississippi, David confirmed his knowledge as a cattleman operating and owning a feeder cattle business. After apprenticing under reining trainer Jesse Chase, David started training reining horses and working cowhorses in 1995.

   In the last 7 years David has trained a Reining World Champion Paint horse, Right On Robin and multiple Top Five and Top Ten Paint and Palomino horses for his clients; he coached the 2007 rider of the Reserve World Champion Buckskin Cow Horse, Amateur World Champion Buckskin Cow Horse and Reserve World Amateur Buckskin Reining Horse, PR Smokin Tom Cat.  David's current clients are focused on reining and working cow horse classes at APHA, AQHA, NRHA, NRCHA, in the Southeast United States, and annually attend the Palomino, Paint and Buckskin World Championship Shows as well as the Dixie National and the Regional AQHA Show. David is a knowledgeable trainer and enjoys coaching novice and advanced students who aspire to improve their horsemanship and scores.

A Few Highlights from David Pitts' Career

1982 P.B.R.A. Steer Stopping Champion 

1991 Ples George Roping Heeler Champion

1997 A.C.A. Calf Roping Open Champion and Reserve Team Roping Champion

2001 Steer Stopping Top Ten Paint World Champion

2001 G.P.H.C. High Point Cattle Horse

2002 M.P.H.C. Heeling Champion

2006 M.P.H.C. Heading Champion

2007 M.P.H.C. Open Heeling Champion