Old South Performance Horses

03/22/2024

10/12/2023

Available to try at SBF! Has been in training and is coming along well. No video at this time. Call Stephen Freeman 334-740-9527

07/21/2022

Being a champion isn't buying the most expensive horse, having the most expensive barn, trailer, or tack. Being a champion isn't winning a class or a buckle. Being a champion isn't always glory and great times.

Being a champion is love, passion, hard work, dedication... It's tears and screaming, it's not always easy. It's working no matter what conditions you have to do it in. It's late nights and early mornings, it's horses before yourself, before your friends, often before your family. Its sore bodies, bruises, and cuts. It's vet bills and last dimes to make sure they have all they need. It's crying in their mane when you had a bad day. It's smiling when they finally get that thing you've been trying to teach them for a month. It's having the best network of people to care for them and to support you. It's farriers, vets, dentists, chiropractors, feed store owners, husband's, wives, family, friends and even enemies. It's learning how to take the good with the bad and never knowing what each day may bring. It's the happy and the sad. It's the highs and the lows. Its wanting to give up but never doing so. Most of all, it's the love that you feel every time you see those eyes and hear that nicker. Being a champion really has little to do with victories in the show pen as it does with victories on every road to get to that show. Being a champion is living for what you love and loving what you do and who you do it with and NEVER giving up. The victories are many and the ribbons and the buckles are icing on the cake so to say. But being a champion is so much more than just winning... And once you can learn that, you too will be a champion.

~• Author Unknown ~•


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04/27/2022

Meet Streak of Old South Performance Horses.

This portrait of him was taken in Fall 2020, and I just edited it to add a black background.

Streak looks deep in thought. What do y'all think he is pondering?

03/31/2022

“The horse, with beauty unsurpassed, strength immeasurable and grace unlike any other, still remains humble enough to carry a man upon his back” — Amber Senti

“Fresh Mounts” painting by Tim Cox. This classic is sold out, get your favorite before it is gone at www.TimCox.com

03/19/2022

TULARES BLACK PEARL, 2016 AQHA mare. She was a regional champion in the limited open hackamore last year. Currently showing in the two rein, this mare would make a great non pro mount for NRCHA or AQHA versatility classes. See her at the April VOLRHA show in Memphis. Call Stephen 334-740-9527 or pm me with other questions. Video available.

FAQs:
Located in Millbrook, AL
$1081 in NRCHA earnings
She stands 14.3
XRAYS are available
She is on adequan, and she's had one set of injections.
She is not mare-ish and not on regumate.
She wears pads with her front shoes as she is a bit low in the heel.
Thirty five thousand.

02/24/2022

🔥Check out this clinic & show!

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01/27/2022

08/02/2021

Occasionally I write things. I’m
not very good. I certainly did enjoy writing this, however…

I’m often asked what the most satisfying part of training performance horses is? The answer follows:

I despise going to horse shows. I’d much rather stay home and train than go to a competition. Unfortunately, competition is an essential part of what I do.

(This next part may sound as if I’m bragging. That’s not my intention. I’m using it as a necessary aid to answer the proposed question, so please forgive it’s unintended brashness. I’m sure there are tons of trainers capable of making similar claims.)

I was at a competition this weekend. A friend pointed out that I had done the primary training on 3 of the top 4 finishers in the Derby. I’d shown the winner myself, and the two other horses were shown by another competent trainer who has been continuing on with them for some time. I then realized I’d also done the primary training on 3 of the top 10 Worlds Greatest Horseman finalists this year. A few years ago, I was lucky enough to have 6 horses entered in the Worlds Greatest Horseman that I’d trained at least through their 4 yr old year. Three of these made the finals as well.

In 2017 I was at the National High School Rodeo Finals with my daughter. There I found 6 horses competing in reined cow horse and/or cutting that I had trained for at least two full years. Many of them weren’t top level horses for Open competition but had become champions on a high school level.

All these mentioned horses’ success is not, however, what I find “the most satisfying part of training performance horses”. The most satisfying part is knowing that my work, to a great degree, has possibly assured that horse a good life. A well trained horse fulfills dreams and brings happiness. That horse is valuable both monetarily and sentimentally. I guarantee the high school rodeo kids and their parents have experiences and memories associated with those 6 horses that are irreplaceable. I guarantee that all three of those mentioned horses from this week’s competition cannot be bought for twice their purchase price. People take excellent care of things that make them happy. There is great satisfaction knowing both a person and a horse has a better quality life because I did my job well.

Pictured is the Reymanator. He is a perfect example. He is actually owned by Mr. Sandy Semanik of Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. Semanik graciously lets Reymanator live with us. Reymanator was a champion in the arena and is now currently raising his third Davis’ kid in rodeo and show competition. We’ve often joked how every material thing we own can be credited, in some way, to what this horse has done for me. The great family memories associated with him are innumerable. He is appreciated, revered, and receives excellent care. One day, hopefully a long time from now, I will respectfully bury him in my yard behind the house he bought for me.

07/10/2021

The Eastern Derby, presented by Mars Equestrian, starts showing tomorrow! Here are some information points to know:
--> MAIN ARENA CLOSED - Daily at 6:30 a.m. for dirt work. It reopens when the show begins at 8 a.m.

--> SHAVINGS/HAY - Sign up in the Horse Show Office for a delivery. Sign ups by 10 a.m. for a noon delivery; sign up by 3 p.m. for a 5 p.m. delivery.

--> Draws, Scores & Results are online at www.NRCHA.com!

--> PRACTICE PEN - please see the schedule below!

We are excited to see everyone here in Tennessee for the 2021 Dom Conicelli Memorial Eastern Derby, presented by MARS Equestrian!

07/04/2021

On June 28, 1776, British warships advanced toward Charleston with the intention of conquering the port city, thereby isolating the South and cutting off a key supply route for the rebellious colonies. If successful, the British would strangle the nascent rebellion before it had a chance to blossom....