09/11/2022
“How long have you owned this horse?”
For the few people that it bothers that we haven’t owned a horse for years, I have news for you.
This is our job, this isn’t a side hustle. We don’t have a 9-5 job somewhere else and then come home and brush ponies after dinner. This is how we make a living. 7 days a week we wake up, go feed horses and go from there. Whether it’s riding them at home, other indoor/outdoor arenas, doing day work at a neighboring ranch, Trevor going to the sale barn on Wednesdays and working cattle, going to ranch ropings, team pennings, trail rides, rodeos etc. Our lives REVOLVE around these horses.
But Tom, Dick, and Harry with the over weight and out of shape gelding that has sat and gone to waste in their pasture for 8 years- THATS the person you want to buy from because they surely know that horse inside and out? Right?? Have at it!
Just understand that the last 8 years they have gotten that horse out 2-5 times a year. Maybe for a pack trip here or there or the grand children come out to visit and want to go play on a horse. That horse has become family hasn’t it! Absolutely it has, and that means the spoiled and rude tendencies it has adopted has become “cute” and isn’t a problem to them. That horse has a routine. He gets the same bit put in his mouth that he doesn’t know how to pack, he uses the same pad and the same saddle, rides the same trail, sees the same people and gets away with the same crap. When that horse leaves that same environment he’s probably NOT going to be the same horse. I’ve seen it TIME and TIME again.
Our horses that we offer to the public get rode by Trevor, Myself, our employee, and children if they’re suitable. They go through multiple bits to see what suits them for what they’re being used for. They get exposed to numerous environments, being rode by themselves, in a group, riding away from a group, different trails, different arenas. Every day we’re looking to find triggers in these horses that need addressed. We push them to find a breaking point. We train them. Every day. We don’t ever sit on a horse and “joy ride”. Every day there is a purpose and every day is TRAINING.
We find their vices, we try our best to correct them. And when we offer them to the public we make that known.
We buy, sell, train and consign. We are “horse traders”. That’s what puts dinner on our table and clothes on my daughters back. There’s nothing crooked or wrong about it. We are honest.
If you need to know how they ride off after they sit for a year and a half, Couldn’t tell ya, this isn’t a vacation for them. If you need to know how they winter on a pasture in below negative temperature. Couldn’t tell ya. They were being rode.
Moral of the story, if you want a horse tuned up and ready to go be apart of your family and your program, here they are, whether we’ve owned them for 2 years or two months.
