Sundance Horse Ranch

01/10/2025

how awesome is this!!!!

11/23/2024

copied and not my words
but agree 100%. took a lot of miles to make my trusted saddle horse n he ain’t perfect but he does what i need! years n miles

To replace a good horse!
The best horses are built over years of hauling, hard work, tough times, good times, bad times, big spooks, little spooks, their mistakes, our mistakes and continual love and care.

No, your breaker can not turn your young prospect into your old faithful in 30, 60, 90, or even 365 days. It takes years.

I’m plagued with the problem of trying to impress on people how long it truly takes to build that dream partner. There’s not a smooth paved path. Your green horse will embarrass you, frustrate you, and maybe even hurt you. For some of you, buying a $20,000-$30,000 horse is going to be worth it and SAVE you money. Even that more finished horse will take a year or more to sync up with.

Cheap rate for horse training is $1,000 a month.
1 year of training: $12,000
2 years of training: $24,000

Many of you won’t believe this but your dream horse is on the other side of two years of training. In reality, it’s likely around two years of training and two years of seasoning (hauling them to town). Will that horse still make mistakes? Yes, they all make mistakes until the day they die. But that horses mistakes probably won’t put you in serious danger and that horse will probably pack your grandkids around.

If you’re trying to decide between a $3,500 prospect or a $15,000 proven horse. My advice is to do an internal inventory and figure out what you want. Buying that prospect is like the first roll on the Jumanji board. You’re entered up, get ready for a journey of ups and downs (possibly quite literally!) If you’re buying that finished horse decide what you really want, get ready for a lot of shopping and painfully overpriced sh💩tters. Take a friend or a trainer on this journey with you and try to double your budget (that’s right, 30k). Be smart and buy something OVER 8 years old. Don’t buy that pretty 5 year old they only want 20k for. He isn’t old enough to be proven for you. Lots of horse traders are trying to flip horses, anything under 8 is likely twice as green as he looks in the video. Maturity, both mental and physical will be key when looking for a safe horse.

If you want a project and a challenge I’m not hating, that’s what I want in a horse too, so I buy young ones. If you need a safe one, bring lots of money and quit thinking you need a 6 year old. You probably don’t have what it takes to mentally support that 6 year old through new situations.

The biggest reason I bring this up is because as folks retire their old faithful they are so far removed from when that horse was green and did dumb stuff. They forgot how tough those two years were back when he was 4-6. They only remember the amazing horse he was when he matured. The 3 year old they just bought is YEARS from filling that horses shoes when it comes to training level and safety level. I see people hate on trainers because the trainer couldn’t make their young horse, “finished” in 90 days. It’s honestly the biggest reason I like taking colts for 30 or 60 days. The expectation is shockingly lower than when I take one for 90 days. It’s weird what people expect from a 90 day start. Most people should commit to sending their young horse out for a full year. Two years would be even better.

Green horses do green horse things, don’t blame others for the challenge you bought yourself. Accept the challenge or pay the price for one further along. No matter which path you choose with horses, it’s going to cost you.

(I didn’t write this one I’m not sure who did, however every word of it rings true)

09/27/2024

no one says it better and yet few truly understand to this day!

Decades before 'natural horsemanship' and 'horse whispering' became big business, Ray Hunt was out there in an old pickup with a two-horse trailer, hoping to make enough gas money to get him to the next fairgrounds.
"I didn't see any commercial value in it", says Ray. "If I had, I probably wouldn't have done it".

The horse world didn't exactly welcome him.
"I was working with the mind", Ray explains.
"A lot of people didn't want to believe the horse had a mind.
'Get a bigger bit'. 'Get a bigger stick'. That was their approach'".

Spectators watched as untouched colts were saddled and ridden for the first time with hardly a buck.
In a matter of a few days the young horses were ready to go on the payroll, meaning they had enough faith in their riders and had learned enough of the rudiments to be useful on a ranch.

In this atmosphere of trust and understanding, with no hobbles or snubbing posts, no external devices, except for the now widely imitated orange flag, it was hard to see what Ray was doing to get such extraordinary results.
Accused of using ringers, drugging horses, even hypnotizing them, Ray laughed it off and kept going.
"I was there for the horse. People were way down the list."

On a recent visit to the Hunt's North Texas ranch, Pat and Linda Parelli stop by and the conversation soon shifts to something else that seems to have been on Ray's mind most of the day.
Can you be in it for the money as well as for the horse?
Pat tries to convince Ray you can. Pat doesn't succeed.
With Ray Hunt the horse comes first and anything that threatens the horse's status will always be a moral dilemma for him.

Excerpt from an article titled 'For The Horse' written by Patti Hudson which appeared in the 'Eastern Oregon Equine Magazine'.
Image of Ray is by Eric Sines and is from the same article.

08/27/2024

stolen from a friend Phill Randall

Driveling through the Black Hills today, I see an Eagle take flight. I stopped to watch that Eagle as he went up to soar.
I was reminded of the story of the left wing and the right wing.
In short. Something to ponder.

The left and right wing belong to the same bird and in the middle is the brain. The left and right wing cannot fly by themselves and they do not have control of the direction they fly.

It is in the middle that the power is held for the left and right wing cannot talk to each other without the body of the bird in the middle.

The world is filled with opposite views. Yet the true power is found when one does not get lost on one side, but uses the power of each side to direct life.

The left wing is powerful, but it is not balanced.

The right wing is powerful, but it is not balanced.

Use your left and right wing wisely picking when to use one or the other. If you only build up one side of a building it is not a stable structure.

I missed the chance to get a picture, so, I borrowed one.

08/21/2024

da boys weighed in today at 78 lbs and 69 lbs

5 month olds on the 24th 😳😳😳

we are long lining and perimeter training
chips
collars with name plates
GPS collars arriving soon
new fencing

don’t get these pups if you can’t afford fine dining!!!

love my poncho n lefty
anybody wanna come spend time while we are away?

08/12/2024

Season one
Episode 2

shopping i’m off to go shopping…….

my boy needs a pool!!!!

08/10/2024

08/09/2024

season one
episode one

hombre ( the smaller of the two) decided he did not want to stay in this pen tonight. see that tiny hole on top of gate, it can be wiggled through easily by a 60 lb youngster whose a tad willful! might be part malinois 😳🤣🤔

08/07/2024

He peeps what kind of dog ramp do you recommend for big dogs into back seat of trucks????

08/07/2024

Got tired of loosing yard birds and decided i needed more dogs instead

they currently at almost 5 months old are bigger than all but my adult male GSD!

Never had names, off a working ranch with sheep n chickens, just started taking meat.

challenge accepted!!!!

08/04/2024

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07/25/2024

So terribly sad that this is a struggle for our military!!!

Some airlines are no longer allowing dogs to be shipped on the same flight with their owners back to the states due to new U.S. CDC rules.

07/24/2024

this sweet pup is up for adoption
neutered with all his shots n heartworm free!
good no great with kids
walks well on leash
he’s a people pup
wants to be the mayor!!!
LONE STAR PAWZ saved him and he is our foster! please share n help find him his forever home. If you can’t adopt please don’t shop. please donate to his health n well being through Lone Star Pawz CATfé or Lone Star Pawz website

thank you

07/20/2024

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