Jansal Saddlebreds

About Us

Welcome to Jansal Saddlebreds, owned and operated by the D'Amato family of Mocksville, North Carolina.

At Jansal, we are dedicated to the loving care, breeding, raising, and training of the American Saddlebred horse.

Located on 55 acres of pristine North Carolina countryside, Jansal is a full-time state-of-the-art training facility with spacious stalls, indoor and outdoor arenas, large pastures, turn-out paddocks and extensive safe and scenic trails. In addition to first class breeding, sales, and training programs, Jansal offers top-notch private and group lessons taught by our acclaimed instructors for riders and drivers of all experience levels.

Kathy D'Amato Melious manages Jansal Saddlebreds. Kathy is a NC Certified teacher and heads our lesson program. A lifetime of owning and showing horses combined with twelve years of certified teaching and coaching middle and high school give Kathy quite the resume for an instructor.

Janelle D'Amato is one of our resident trainers. She puts the "Jan" in Jansal. She has 9 years of award winning showing and amatuer/owner trainer experience behind her. She has now joined the professional ranks and teaches in our lesson program as well. Janelle spent her junior years under the tutelage of Smith Lilly.

Robert "Bobby" K Jones is also one of our resident trainers at Jansal. Bobby specializes in starting young colts and fixing problematic horse. Bobby hast started, trained and shown World Champion racking horses for many years. In 2006 he fell in love with the American Saddlebreds and promptly decided to deal exclusively with saddlebreds, hackneys, and roadsters. He has studied under Claude Shiflet and Lewis Eckard.

The staff members of Jansal Saddlebreds are proud members of:

United States Equestrian Federation
American Saddlebred Horse Association
American Saddlebred Horse Association of the Carolinas
American Hackney Horse Association
United States Trotting Association
United Professional Horsemen's Association
Saddlebred Rescue

Kathy Melious, and her parents,
Fran and Sal D'Amato