Gipson Performance Horses

01/14/2025

01/13/2025

We are just a little over a week from the close of entries for Keatchie little britches rodeos. Get entered! Red River Little Britches Rodeo Association.

For all questions on the rodeo please contact Toby Martin and the number below

01/10/2025

Great break down!

12/29/2024

Toughness, it seems, is proportional to heart.

“The ones that last so long just have a lot of try,” Clay Tryan said. “People or horses that seem to go longer, they’re just wired different.”

That wiring plays into their personalities, too.

“Slim was tougher than nails,” said Luke Brown, who won two of his three NFR average titles on the old sorrel. “He was a little snorty and he never bucked, but he’d run off. He did not like strangers or concrete—you had to shoe him on the grass.”

Walt, too, would almost run off going to a steer before he’d ever get quick. Very free, also, was Doyle Gellerman’s 15-hand, 1,200-pound dun, Coyote, that he finally retired at 22 or 23 after riding him at eight NFRs. The gelding wasn’t an all-time great, he said, or even the best horse he ever had.

“But he was the toughest horse I’ve ever owned in my life,” recalled Gellerman. “He could take all you could give. The more you used him, the better he was. Jesse James was at my house once when I was practicing reaching on him. He asked me, ‘Do you ever just kick him up?’ I said, ‘No, he gets too free.’”

Then there’s Bob, the horse that kicked Riley Minor when he walked up to put on a splint boot.

“We’re buddies, but Bob’s a strange animal,” Minor said. “Some days he’ll snort at you. Not being sweet and kind, I think that’s what makes him tough and good—he’s watchy and catty.”

What keeps elite heading horses so sound of body and mind they can live a full decade on the highway? We picked some brains on just how the likes of Scooter and Walt, Marty and Bob have done what they do for so long ⤵️ https://bit.ly/3HznfMo

12/28/2024

Have three great geldings in the barn for sale!!
9,9 and 16!! All priced right!!! Gentle and ready to go. All 20k and under!!!

12/26/2024

We reflect on the 2024 NFR with five of our favorite conversations on The Short Score the 2024 NFR team roping.

12/25/2024

ISO 10 solid black heifers. Fresh RTR!
Delivered or in Texas.

12/20/2024

Had a lot of questions about our feed program here with Viper and Iceman from Vegas. Both performed and gave me every opportunity to win. Nuggets twice a day and feed + supplements at night!!
OptiWize Equinety Purina strongid2x

12/11/2024