Gunshy 00

06/21/2024

Ok, so excuse the foul language while I was fussing at my dog. I realize this doesn’t seem like a big deal, but to my knowledge- this was my 15 year old studs second time with a flag around him. It’s much smaller than what he’s expected to carry at rodeos for The Western Horseman Club - but we gotta start somewhere regardless.

06/20/2024

Just a quarter pony stud, his flag, and a blue sky.
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06/19/2024

The wind, is absolutely terrifying. So this week we’re going back to the basics and doing a lot of groundwork in high winds. As to be expected he was a champ and even had his first experience with a flag.

06/14/2024

So pushy about it, my guy 🫶🏼

06/12/2024

We may have been a bit unsure of our new feed bucket yesterday 😂
He got over it pretty quickly

06/11/2024

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06/07/2024

As a stud owner, understand this - I will NEVER, under ANY circumstance - live cover mares with Gunshy.

As a mare owner, I’d hope you would prefer to AI for the safety of your mare.

The safety of the handlers (myself, mare owner, veterinarians) and horses involved much greater outweighs your lack of willingness to pay fees.

This pic from this afternoon says it all - and I’m not willing to lose him to a broken leg because you as a mare owner didn’t want to pay the veterinarians AI fees.

05/12/2024

Happy 15th birthday to the little gray stud!
Here’s to at least another 15 years, Gunshy!

03/05/2024

My best boy is spending this week at the 6666’s being collected.

Oh, Gunshy 00🩶

This is a horrible photo, but he’s still the best little stud pony

12/24/2023

🎄🌲Merry Christmas🌲🎄
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Gunshy 00 wishes you and yours the merriest and brightest of days.
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10/28/2023

I rode today. For the first time since I hurt my hand in June. He was perfect. All I wanted was to walk around the yard - and he acted like I was on him yesterday. Find me a better stud. No headstall or saddle needed.

08/13/2023

Gunshy 00 finally got his own t-shirt…. Go get yourself an “I like big butts and I cannot lie” t-shirt now, on the T5 website!!!

Multiple colors available!

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08/13/2023

Will forever contribute to publicizing any of Gunshy 00’s c**ts for sale! Be sure to check out Cholla Shy Freckles, September 16th at The Legacy Ranch Horse Sale!!

08/08/2023

Six of Gunshy 00's offspring are being offered for sale this year, September 16, at The Legacy Ranch Horse Sale - including a 3 in 1 package of an own daughter, who has a c**t on her hip and one confirmed in utero. His particular offspring in the sale are ranged in age from 1 to 6 years.

There area multitude of other great horses coming available at this sale - but obviously, we're a little prone to the Gunshy 00 c**ts...

You can bid online or in person. Check out the catalog here!

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05/03/2023

Especially don’t discourage the little grey stud 😁

05/01/2023

Long post warning, but worth the read…

I was recently told it’s maybe time to consider gelding Gunshy because we’ve had no interest in breeding this season. And I won’t do it… at some point he will prove himself as a show pony, I hope, and until then, the inconvenience of a separate pen, isn’t a big deal…

The never ending quest to turn Gunshy 00 into a show pony.

This little stud is amazing - you’d never know he was a stud. He stood all day, for three days, next to a bunch of mares - never looked at them, nickered at them, nothing. Even in his stall, he stood quietly.

He’s a world champion at home, soft in the mouth, responds to my seat - if I want him to stop all I say is whoa and he’s dead still. He tracks a cow well, without really any effort from me, and he’ll get down on his shoulder to cut one. But we have a ways to go when we’re away from the ranch.

We took second in ranch riding - an improvement as at the last show he got scared of the bleachers and we didn’t make it much farther than that in the particular class. I think that’s part of what I like about VRH, you can OP your heart out, but you don’t DQ.

We actually entered reining, we’ve avoided this as I wasn’t sure he was quite ready - day 1 was a royal sh*tshow (everything in the arena was terrifying), day two was better.

We got blessed with two great judges that were understanding, and didn’t get upset that each time we entered the arena (something that’s big and scary), I talked to and pet my horse with my free hand - after all - it is VRH, and at home, when we’re working - I talk to him and pet him all the time.

He wants to please, he tries so, so hard, without fail every time I get on his back to do what I ask.

He hates men. He’s unsure of a lot of women. But we click.

I can’t talk to people about this horse without starting to cry, I can’t control it.

I’ll use the term mistreatment - its funny in that when you put two living beings together who have experienced hell, you tend to come out on the brighter side of Heaven.

The more I learn about his past, the more I feel sorrow, but at the same time happiness. I swear Divine Intervention is the only reason he’s with me. He was almost starved to death at 5 years old, he was repeatedly hit with a hot shot, he was roped and it was cinched so hard around his neck that it caused permanent damage to the muscle in the right side of his neck leaving an abnormally large “prophets thumb” scar. It’s like he wasn’t given a chance to prove he was nice, just assumed he was aggressive because he was a stud - to the same tune maybe he was aggressive - but there’s ways to fix aggression without capital punishment.

When I bought him I asked if I could go in his pen… and I was told to watch it because he was in a bad mood. I whistled and he looked at me, I threw my arms around him - and he nestled into my back.

If you know me personally - and even if you don’t it doesn’t take long to figure out my past wasn’t all sunshine and daisies. And there have been more than a few men that decided they needed to “put me in my place”. I regularly carry a lot of anger, but not when I’m with him.

But like I said, when you put two living beings together that have experienced hell, you tend to come out on the brighter side of Heaven.

He has the potential to be a great show pony, we just have to learn that there’s no difference in working in the show pen and working at the house…. Except the 50+ other horses, loud speakers, banners, and more than just me, him, and the cows.

Don’t give up on the goals you set, it may take you all your life to accomplish them, but you’ll get there.

We make a good team, me and the grey stud. And we’re working through our traumas together. I’m a different person with that horse, and our small 3 show record might not be great, but it’s progress, and progression in all things is the goal.

04/28/2023

It’s been a day getting on the road, but away we go on down to the next show. Jackpot Ranch here we come!

04/08/2023

About a week ago, Steve Kutie, owner and trainer of Anti-Gimmick Horsemanship posted a quick two minute read. One that truly resonated with me, and also validated my own feelings that my idea of “success” in the equine industry isn’t totally crazy. The general gist of his post was all too often we lose sight of what our “success” is - thinking in the horse business success is only winning championship titles, and why we got into this in the first place.

Gunshy 00 and I, with the help of our sponsor, Erikka Paige of Crooked W Consulting have the goal to make it to the WSVRH championships in Vegas in October, and then to go to the AQHA VRH World Finals in Guthrie, OK in 2024. But that’s it our goal at those shows IS NOT TO WIN! The success for those shows is just in the going.

Read that again… showing up to a show 18 hours away and competing IS OUR SUCCESS.

Take the success in the showing up. Take the success in the fact you actually get to just go. Take the success of knowing that each time you go, you as a TEAM get better.

Our first show - he had NEVER BEEN IN A SHOW RING…. HE WAS SCARED TO DEATH OF THE LOUD SPEAKER! Our second show - we took 3rd in the cow work and the loud speaking wasn’t a problem.

Our second show, we had the successes of placing in all the events (not dead last) and not being scared of the speakers. But we got scared of the bleachers…. BUT WE STILL WON.

To paraphrase Steve in my own words… when you show up, that by itself is success. Stop getting lost in the buckles, money, trophies, and titles and just remember it’s about you and the horse and the way just being next to them takes you back to your happiest childhood memories.

Yes - that is me… hugging my stud… in the middle of a show ring.

02/09/2023

Add it to your list of things to improve on this year! 💪

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