Dakota Performance Horses

02/06/2024

For the first year on record, the Black Hills Stock Show and Rodeo judged team roping was sanctioned by the ARHFA.

01/29/2024

Here’s how our stock show ended up for Dakota Performance Horses. Sold lot 190 $30,000. Lot 150 $25,500 and lot 30 $24,500.

Gumbo Quarter Horses “Zipanic Freckles” AQHA World Show qualifier 2024:
1st in short round and 3rd in the ave of heading futurity.
BHSS Circuit champion in AQHA ranch riding with 14 points.
AQHA heading 7 points
Heeling 14 points
Performance halter 1 or 2 points

“High Rey Robber” BHSS circuit champion senior cutting. 5 or 6 points

“Blue Blood” RHBC steer stopping champion and AQHA tiedown points.

I missed a couple calves and some heel loops, but God blessed us with a great show!!

01/26/2024

Friday is the day to come watch this pretty Palomino gelding in the preview. “Cosmic Radiance” is very athletic. He can break away and heel steers, but heading on him is really where it’s at! He’ll be good in the box, and run to cattle nice and flat. He’s a nice big country ranch horse that could easily go back to the barrel pen also.

01/25/2024

Gralyn Elkins does heel them down and stop the clock even on the head duckin, heavy ones!! Thanks to you and Dakota for the great help this week. One more day to go.

01/24/2024

Very blessed to be riding this stud! Third in the open heading futurity at the Black Hills Stock Show!! moved from seventh up to third on this run.

01/22/2024

Gumbo Quarter Horses Zipanic Freckles is having a great Black Hills Stock Show so far with several days to go. He has shown to two judges in the halter with one reserve grand, 5 heading points, 2 heeling points, sitting decent in both futurities, Has shown twice to five different judges in the Ranch riding placing four firsts and a fourth.

01/07/2024

Something to think about going into the new year. I have worked all my life to get this little place. It’s nothing fancy but it’s efficient and designed to make working my horses easier. But hear me out, this is not what makes me the horseman I’ve become. It was all those times when I didn’t have a decent place to work a horse. Places that made me think of a better way to get the job done. Places that made me think outside the box. This place is an accumulation of ideas I learned from working at all those other places. Yes this place is nice but I wouldn’t trade what I learned from those other not so nice places for all the gold in the world. You see don’t look at your situation (poor fences, sloppy conditions, poor footing, whatever) as a curse but rather as a blessing. These situations will teach you what you want or don’t want and they will help you become better horsemen and people if you learn to appreciate the lessons being taught. Anyone can feel confident in place with big doors, beautiful pens, enclosed alleyways. But take a barely halter broke weanling through a mud path with no fences for containment and try to get them through a walk through door into a dark musty smelly barn. I’ll guarantee you will learn more about how to handle a horse compared to if you didn’t have to worry about a c**t getting away from you and being gone down the road because it was in a safe, secure and enclosed area. Kinda of like riding in an arena where you feel more confident than riding outside but in an arena you’re really only riding half the horse where outside you’re riding the whole horse.Blessings and curses come in all wide variety shapes. What looks like one may turn out to be the other……..Happy New Year everybody!

01/03/2024

Cruise is bred to be a big time open athlete, but he turned out to be a big, beautiful teddy bear too. Very mature young ranch/heading horse, with all the ability you need in a quiet, gentle package. Absolutely ready to go straight to work! 605-441-9271 https://youtu.be/_0jwatxKhS0?si=bxLRQWftlIQeBcS5


12/30/2023

BLUE BLOOD IKE has a champions pedigree, and moves like one! He’s a ready to go heel/breakaway/tiedown gelding that had a cowhorse start. Run and stop! Lot 190 BHSS Sale call 605-441-9271

https://youtu.be/TOJkTMRP8rI?si=XiBtBhm0wXmBXS7v

12/25/2023

What a great year! God has blessed us greatly. Merry Christmas to everyone from the Grimes family and Dakota Performance Horses. Batten down the hatches, it’s fixin to come a goodun!

12/24/2023

We have had Christina Stroh's nice gelding here through the summer roping, fall work, and heading a lot of steers. "Cosmo" is a great traveler outside, great in the box, and has plenty of run and ability. Very mature, broke, sound horse for most anyone. Lot 30 BHSS Sale (605)441-9271

12/03/2023

What tracking system does anyone recommend for automatically videoing rope horses that actually works well? Consistent zoom etc…

11/07/2023

Daltons saddle showed up in the mail. Made him pose for a picture. He enjoyed a great fall with 17 touchdowns and a great last jr high season with his friends. Must’ve lost a little weight here playing hard.

11/05/2023

First time back to the AQHA world show In 9 years. Congratulations on a nice stud Gumbo Quarter Horses / Sharon Herron. First run placed 3rd in world in level 2 (intermediate) and got into level 3 (open) shootout. Second run just ticked the barrier on a quite a bit slower steer to be first or second in the shoot out and make open finals. Still ended up top 25 in a class with a lot more NFR type guys than there used to be in the quarter horse deal. Stud marked some 74s to 76s on these runs. Pretty great trip with Dalton too.

10/27/2023

How many legends are sitting in awe of this great song? Classic!! Maybe even better than Taylor Swift.

09/06/2023

keep getting asked “is he quiet, Is he gentle?” Dillon thinks so. Lot #22 Pitzer Ranch 2023 Fall Sale at The Pitzer Ranch this Friday morning. (605)441-9271

09/05/2023

“Zipanic Freckles” is qualified for the AQHA world show in heading heeling and ranch riding this fall and might be going to the versatility world show next year. Sharon Herron and Gumbo Quarter Horses new junior stallion. He’s a great one!

08/03/2023

08/02/2023

"Vanilla Ice" is Lot 22 on Pitzer Ranch 2023 Fall Sale. What a pleasure he's been for years of shipping cattle, branding, sorting, head/heel at jackpots, turnback at cuttings, help horse at shows, calving in blizzards, flagging rodeos, and even modeling. Videos to come. FMI call (605)441-9271