Pinetree Quarter Horses: Three Generations Of Horse Lovers
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70 – May/June, 2025
By Brittany Vermeer
Nestled in the corner of Northeast Florida is a small town called Lake Butler. It’s a peaceful place where pastured horses roam under a canopy of oaks dripping with Spanish moss. This is the home of Pinetree Quarter Horses and three generations of the Collier-Augsburger family.
Andrew, Lori, and their daughter, Cheyenne “Scoot” Augsburger, live on 80 acres along with the matriarch of the family, Doris Collier. The story of their legacy begins, like most do, with a child’s wistful longing for a horse of her own.
“When Mom was 16, she wanted a horse. Her father bought her a boat instead,” Lori says. “When she and my dad, Jimmy, got married, he went to an auction and bought her a $25 pony. That’s how it all started.”
When Lori and her two siblings came along, Doris and Jimmy knew the kids would need lessons. They fenced off some property, built stalls, and the family’s journey in the horse industry had officially begun.
Meanwhile, Andrew Augsburger’s family had a background in agriculture, so his dad always had a work horse at the farm. Andrew grew up in 4-H, and his first horse came from an unlikely place.
“My first horse came from a landfill,” Andrew says. “My dad picked him up in the back of a pick-up truck with cattle racks on it.
