Show N Color Performance Horses

01/27/2025

AzQHA & AzRCHA 2024 Year-End Awards Night
Congratulations to all the Winners and Thank You to our Sponsors.

01/27/2025

01/23/2025

All of us at Show N Color Performance Horses are honored to sponsor 2024 Arizona Quarter Horse Association/ Arizona Reined Cow Horse Association Year-End Awards Celebration being held this Saturday at Kimes Ranch!

Congrats to all the winners! We hope to see you there!

01/23/2025

Bowden Leather Co knocked this one out of the park. I called Arlen and told him I had a 13.1 hand mutton withered wide as she is tall mare to fit, he said bring on the challenge! I absolutely love these saddles and they ride so nice from day 1!

01/22/2025

HORSES IN TRAINING…

You pay that hefty training bill for the month.

You look to have you horse in training as little as possible so it doesn’t break the bank.

You’re disappointed when after 30 days or 60 days or 90 days, there’s still more work to be done or the goal hasn’t been met. Worse yet, it looks good, you take the horse home and it unravels piece by piece. All that money “wasted”.

When you pay a trainer, that money isn’t paying for a result, it’s paying for someone’s skilled effort.

At least for me, when someone gets unhappy that their horse “isn’t fixed yet”, or comes “untrained” after it’s been home a while, makes the task of training horses for other people, discouraging. Discouraging because the efforts are being made, usually my best efforts that are filled with compassion, determination and lots of ruminating on how to fix complex issues a horse may have. Their disappointment becomes my failure basically. I know that’s not an actual truth but it’s never rewarding when someone is disappointed due to their own expectations.

Training a horse is NOT like being a mechanic on a car. Its not a tune up, it’s not the simple replacement of a part. It’s an animal with thoughts, feelings, emotions, habits, talents, etc. You don’t just program them, tune them up or replace a faulty part and send it back good as new.

You arent paying for results to happen within your timeline, you are paying for the time it takes to reach a desired result. The more complicated the project, the bigger the investment. The more baggage a horse has, the more effort it takes to unravel the mess. The bigger the goal, the greater the investment.

People send their horses to certain trainers because they want the outcome that trainer proves they can achieve. The problem is, people want that result in the shortest time frame possible because time, again, is money. It takes the time it takes to create the vision and time costs money. People who have a diy mentality, value the effort so much more when they themselves invest their own energy into a horse rather than just paying for it. I really feel that those who do it themselves, come to appreciate the efforts it takes far more than those who sign the check.

Be nice to your trainers, they work hard. :)

Credit goes to unknown author.

01/16/2025

Piper and I took the Champ title in Limited Open Hackamore for 2024 and Bing and I took 3rd place! Was a fantastic year learning and gaining ground. Now on to the next year and the two rein!!!

2024 Arizona Fall Championship
WestWorld of Scottsdale
September 18-22, 2024

01/09/2025

Due to unforeseen circumstances we have another training spot open.

C**t start, specialized, or tune up! Shoot us a message to see how we can help!!

01/01/2025

We have some training spots open!

1 regular opening for start/riding horse.
C**t starts or tune ups!

2 openings for yearling boot camp.
They get a good ground handle so they can be mentally ready for what life tosses their way!

Located in Queen Creek, Az.

12/27/2024

12/23/2024

CONGRATULATIONS to our very own Jessica Leifson & LADY HAWK DOWN!!!

2024 AZRCHA Year-End LIMITED OPEN HACKAMORE CHAMPION

CONGRATULATIONS to all the 2024 AZRCHA Year-End CHAMPIONS and RESERVE CHAMPIONS!!!

12/09/2024

We had a good three days at Arizona Quarter Horse Association Dorn Parkinson Memorial Show. Everyone made improvements, learned something and took things home to work on.

Lisa and Piper made big improvements in their run downs and spins! They also tried cutting for the first time and held their cows the whole time!!!!

Linda and Joey significantly improved their ranch riding and had some good trail classes. To top their weekend off they were circuit champs (placing first under both judges, both days) for the Rookie Amateur Reining!!!!!

Jolene and I made some big strides in our Ranch classes and she is figuring out how to mature.

11/23/2024

Ranch Trail lessons






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