Flying G Performance Horses

02/19/2025

Dial A Challenge (Challenge) at 28 years of age out romping around. The old man still has some s***k.

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02/09/2025

So today marked years of designing, planning, and finally removing the center post that held up the center piece while the trusses and purlins were being installed.
It originally started with me getting the power poles that were being replaced on my property by the power company, and used conveyor belt from my work, to putting on the siding, and finally getting the roof put on.
We still have to get the roofing tin installed the rest of the way, as well as the polycarbonate around the topside of the walls, but we are getting there, if the wind would just behave itself and not blow.
I want to thank everyone who has been involved in my crazy dream. Without them, it would still be a dream and not becoming a reality.

12/28/2024

Just wanted to share some pics of Playing Aces N Vegas (Ace) and Streakin NTaMoonlite (Buckshot) from when we competed at Christmas Cash in Amarillo, TX right after Christmas.
While we fell in the cracks as far as payout goes, I was happy with how both boys worked.

12/26/2024

Merry Christmas from our family to yours. May 2025 be a year filled with many blessings.

11/17/2024

Streakin NTaMoonlite (Buckshot) and I made our very first performance run yesterday and it was the first time that I really hustled him on the barrel pattern to see if he'd handle the lead change to the second barrel. While it wasn't the prettiest of runs, I sure was happy.
This was a futurity sidepot and he ended up 1st in the 2D and won some money.

09/18/2024

Ace (Playing Aces N Vegas) and I competed at the Fizz Bomb the 1st weekend in September and we won some money in the Wendy Larsen senior race.

09/18/2024

So Ace (Playing Aces N Vegas) and I had a really nice weekend at the Jody Motley Memorial barrel race. We won checks in the open and novice horse, as well as being 5th in the average in the Novice Horse 2D.
We also took checks home in the Diamond Classic side pot.

08/17/2024

Got some really nice pictures of Ace (Playing Aces N Vegas) and I from the Royal Crown barrel race last weekend.

08/17/2024

Ace (Playing Aces N Vegas) and I competed last weekend at the Royal Crown barrel race in Rock Springs, WY.
While we didn't quite have the runs that I was hoping for, we did win some money in the Royal Crown Senior sidepot as we were 3rd in the 4D.

07/31/2024

I also did testing for Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome on eight of our mares.
I did have some questions about doing this test, and I emailed UC Davis to ask them about testing my mares, as several of them are either daughters or grand daughters of my mare Plaudit Starynite (ApHC).
I had done testing on some of her daughters and granddaughters before I got their response and come to find out, if a mare is negative, her offspring will be negative since a producing stallion can't carry the gene.
Here is my email and UC Davis' response back to me:
Hello,

I apologize for the delayed reply.

A male horse that has the AR variant for AIS is expected to be phenotypically female and sterile, so if the stallion is phenotypically normal and has produced foals, he would be expected to be N/N (normal/clear) for AIS. If a female horse has been tested and is N/N, there would be no need to test her offspring. Verifying parentage of the offspring to the mare means that the offspring should be clear as well.

For additional information about AIS: https://vgl.ucdavis.edu/test/ais-horse

Feel free to reach out if you have any additional questions.

Kind Regards,

Diana Djalili
Customer Service Representative
Veterinary Genetics Laboratory
University of California, Davis
(530) 752-2211

07/31/2024

I finally have the EJSCA results back on my two mares, Big Duke's Comet (ApHC) and Fabulous In Diamonds (AQHA). Both mares are negative for Equine Juvenile Spinocerebellar Ataxia.

Here is the link for the study on EJSCA: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11099776/

07/18/2024

I ended up doing Equine Juvenile Spinocerebellar Ataxia testing on 12 of my horses through UC Davis.
Today I received results on 10 of them, plus I received an additional email from UC Davis that on 2 of my horses, the testing has been delayed.
Here is the results on 10 of them, including our senior stallion Dial A Challenge and our two junior stallions Playing Aces N Vegas and Streakin NTaMoonlite (ApHC).

07/04/2024

Happy 4th of July. Let freedom ring!

06/24/2024

Ace and I had a great run yesterday at the Greeley Stampede barrel race.
Overall, they had 244 horses entered.
We ended up 1st in the 3D in Novice Horse.
I had run him that morning at another race and won some money as well, and then ran him that evening at Greeley.

06/21/2024

A couple of candid shots that were taken of Ace, and one of them with my husband in there as well, by Julie Liska.

06/03/2024

Here is a great picture that Julie Liska took of Ace and I at the True West barrel race last weekend.

06/03/2024

Ace and I went down to a True West barrel race in Longmont last weekend.
At times I feel like it's been a long road getting to this point as I didn't get to attend many barrel races last year because of work and turnaround, and having shoulder surgery, but it seems like we are finally making some strides together on improving our runs.
Here was his run on Sunday.