08/18/2024
Just something about those summer nights after a good splash of rain. 🙌
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Just something about those summer nights after a good splash of rain. 🙌
This one’s for the rebels and the get-stuff-done-ers; the rugged, the tough-as-nail-ers; the kind and young old-souls.
They’re few and far between but the good ones are sure worth their weight.
Here’s to the Cowboy.
God Bless America 🇺🇸
Who knew princesses could be such good workers. 👑
💥 Taking Orders for Bulk High-Quality Alfalfa Cubes 💥
Last June, we transitioned the whole barn from loose hay to alfalfa cubes. We’ve seen a great response from every horse in our program.
We are looking for other local folks who would be interested in buying these cubes in bulk.
- They come in totes and bags, so you would have to be willing to get at least one ton.
- We are working toward getting a semi load delivered to our house, so you would pickup accordingly. Ideally, we’d be ordering every couple months.
- These cubes are additive and preservative-free, which makes them much softer than most alfalfa cubes (see video in comments). The horses eat them like candy.
- The price per day to feed is very comparable to a loose hay and grain program. Feed as a primary forage, or supplement other forage with the high-quality protein and buffering benefits. You would pay the manufacturer directly; we are not making any money off of this.
We’ve been really pleased with the manufacturer of these cubes. Good, honest folks who work hard to produce a quality product.
If we get enough people committed to purchase, we’ll be having them delivered in the next month or so.
If interested, let us know. We’d be happy to share more about our experience with them.
So much to be thankful for this year, including each of you reading this.
So humbled by the Lord’s blessings in our life and business.
We hope you’ve spent the day with your favorite people, just soaking up the goodness of God.
Happy Thanksgiving, friends!
It’s now dark at 5 o’clock. At least the views are sure pretty.
Enjoying the last day of 70 degree weather for awhile. 🍂
A lot of life is spent dreaming. It’s a pretty wild thing to wake up and realize you’re living one of those dreams.
Training out of our own barn is a dream come true. One that’s been an incredible journey of growth and development, and we aren’t done yet!
But there’s not a day that goes by that we don’t realize how blessed we have been by our incredible clients. Without your continued trust and support, we would be nothing.
The Lord is so faithful and kind to us.
And to our clients, we just want to say thank you.
The cutting pen ground is ready for a nice shower this evening.
The pen will be the easy part now that the ground is right. 👌
“Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.”
- Wilt Chamberlain
Correct and soft is the goal. 👌
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
Team work makes the dream work.
Money Man is ready for the show tomorrow. 👌
You’re becoming today who you’ll be tomorrow.
Make it something good.
It’s bittersweet when the fun ones leave, but so grateful for the opportunity to start this filly and build her foundation.
Nelly was in our program over a year and she sure is something sweet.
So excited for her to officially start her career at her new home in Wyoming. Looking forward to cheering on this new partnership!
Praise the Lord for His Love! Thankful for the Hope we have in Jesus. Happy Resurrection Sunday. ✝️
May we never miss the sweetness hiding in our "every day".
COMING SOON to the Grokett Performance Horses facilities:
- a 125ft cutting pen -
This will be in addition to the 60x60 covered riding pen and the 110x300 arena.
Excited to have a pen specifically for working calves. 🐮
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started [correctly].” - Mark Twain, mostly.
“The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand.”
Psalm 37:23-24
It starts with you wanting to help them achieve their potential and turns into them helping you achieve yours.
Watch that b***y D-R-O-P down L-O-W.
First step in a true collection: lift the belly to naturally drive the head lower. Break them at the poll with your hands to give them that pretty show look. 👌
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🔥 SHESA METALLIC KITY 🔥 This filly is quiet, easy to be around and hunts a stop. Having exceptional expression on live cattle, she is on track for 2023 futurities. Finish her as a cutter, cow horse or your next outstanding rope partner. She has been in training with Connor Grokett since April. She is shapey, extremely athletic and correct in all movement. She is eligible for the North American Reining Stakes and Michigan Foundation Futurity Program incentives. 📍 Winter Triangle Horse Sale, OKC 🗓 Selling Thursday, January 26, HIP 1️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ 🐄 She will be shown on live cattle on sale day 🩻 We have clean X-rays to be reviewed, by request 🏦 Financing, transportation and absentee bidding information at trianglehorsesales.net Let us know if you’ve got any questions or if you’d like to see her before sale day.
🔥 MOUSE 🔥 DUAL SMART PLAYGUN AKA “Mouse” is an exceptional own son of the legendary DUAL SMART REY, out of PRF PLAYGUNS STAR, NCHA earner of $26K. He is one who will give you his heart on a cow, in the show pen or out in the pasture and then turn around and babysit your kids. Talent is this horse’s middle name. His potential is limitless regardless of the direction you take him. Don’t miss out on the rare opportunity to own the perfect combination of cow, show, disposition and eye. Available via private treaty. PM for more information. Come try and ride him!
☀️ Hay Day ☀️ Watch until the end to see if it stands… 🫣 Grateful to have hay to get us to next hay season, despite things being dry. Sure makes it easier to sleep at night with a barn full.
Don’t mind us as we casually lope away from the 4 inches of rain expected tonight. We know there are lots of folks out there needing rain, so we aren’t going to complain. At least all the ponies are nice and dry under the barn.
✅ Dentist visit ✅ Horse teeth grow continuously for most of their life, up to an 1/8” every year (just imagine how sharp and long they can get!). So routine dental care is important to ensure horses are given every opportunity to perform well, young or aged. Horse teeth take up more space in their head than their brain. So this is a friendly reminder to keep those toothers in tip-top shape so you are working with your horse instead of against them. 🦷
Hunting that circle like it’s the first day of Season. 👀 This Once in a Blu Boon son is wanting to do his job. 👌
Peep those mile-long elevens 😍 Mouse (affectionately named because he’s “as quite as a church mouse”) is a 3-year old own son of Dual Smart Rey out of a money-earning daughter of Playgun. He’s on track for the Clovis Horse Sales Fall Futurity and we’re excited he’s packing the GPH brand. He’s one of the good ones, for sure.
Tell me I’m not the only one who can watch this on repeat. 😌 The horses say winter’s over. ✌️ #horsesheddingstressrelief
Dixie’s Day 1 on the flag. When it’s all said and done, Dixie will have spent 90 days in our program. She came to us unstarted. She’s got plenty of sting and has progressed nicely into learning how to funnel that energy into her job as a cowhorse. So grateful for clients who give us the opportunity to lay a solid foundation for untouched young ones. Excited to watch her future unfold!
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