X7 Performance Horses

11/06/2024

..... Hugo would have that figured out purdy quick 😒🙄

10/08/2024

🐎 😃

09/17/2024

🤔😳😲🤩

08/05/2024

This 👇🏼🤌🏼

08/05/2024

🙌🏼🧡💛

“Only those whose dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
- Robert F. Kennedy

08/05/2024

08/04/2024

What he said. 😆😆🤣

08/01/2024

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒅...
We all have that image in our heads. The new winner wraps their arms around a sweaty horse with gratitude as they catch their breath. The dust from the winning shot still lingers in the air while the crowd cheers and photographers rush to capture the flood of happy emotions.
What we don’t often see captured in the photos is 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲. What we don’t often see in the photos is 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁. What we don’t often see in the photos is 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. We all know it, and we know it well. Whether it's team roping, another discipline, a business, whatever, failure, if you're doing anything is, at some point, inevitable. Why? Because as Billie Jack Saebens stated, “You're going to lose way more than you win. We all think about the winners when they win," he reflected. "We don't think about the losers when we win.”
Billie Jack had six runs in the highest paying Rope Horse Futurity in history on Saturday, and he didn’t catch one steer. Not one. He was mounted on some of the best heel horses in the country. He was prepared. His horses were prepared. Yet, he didn't get one score. This is a guy who works sun up to sun down. A guy who ropes nearly every day. This is a guy whose word matters. A guy that does right by his customers and right by their horses. A guy who recently ranked in the top 10 on ARHFA’s list of Top Riders for 2024. But on this particular day, he just could not get it together. He, by definition, failed.
So what goes through someone’s head after a day like that? For Billie Jack, failing is fuel.
“I have to get better. It’s that simple. I need to work harder," he said the morning following the event. "Yes, I’ll go back and watch the videos and try to see what happened and where I can improve, but for me it comes down to work. I’ll work harder. It’s easy to beat yourself up, and I’ll do my fair share of it. I have an 18-hour drive home to think about what I did wrong. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s ok. My horses were good. They felt as good as they ever have going into this deal. It just didn’t work out.”

Something else that wasn’t captured in a photo that day, something else that won't go into a database with a chart value or dollar sign on an ad was a valuable memory.
“I was walking Bigs back to his stall, and this kid came up to me and asked for my autograph," Billie Jack recalled. "He said, ‘I’m sorry you didn’t have a good day.’ His dad said they were thinking about breeding to Bigs next year, and we visited for a minute. It was pretty cool. Things like that will remind you real quick what’s important.”
We felt it was important to share this and give people an insight not just to the wins, but also the losses. It isn't the losses or the failures that define us. It's the comeback and it's the lessons we learn along the way that shape us.🖤
📷 EC Equine Marketing

07/31/2024

07/21/2024

It's "let's blast the cold hose & stand in the shade awhile".... kinda weather.