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Location: Cypress, Texas | I'm looking to buy a competitive horse in the state of Texas. When I say competitive I mean jackpot 1D/2D and possibly enter up in some rodeos. I've been looking in Texas and states bordering, I haven't seen or found anything that wows me. So I'm thinking of looking into other states. How competitive are other states jackpot horses compared to Texas horses? |
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| I think there are great horses in every state. I know of 2 here in Texas that fit your description. Both just sold by word of mouth and were 60k plus. |
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| Depends on how much money you can spend! There's amazing horses everywhere, but they're not usually advertised. You have to go turn over rocks and find out to talk to, or who's sister's friend's aunt's trainer is switching out horses with his grandmother's neighbor's breeder uncle who has this one really nice one that is already made but they love him and he won't come cheap. Either that or go to the big names and see what they have on the shelf. |
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Location: Loco,Ok | Oklahoma and Tx either.From Ft Worth to OKC up I35 may be the toughest place in the world to get a check. |
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| Its true, Scientists are still trying to figure it out but only horses that live in texas can run. They do however suspect that the texas border might have some magical aspects. |
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Location: SE KS | Whiteboy - 2016-04-05 1:56 PM
Its true, Scientists are still trying to figure it out but only horses that live in texas can run. They do however suspect that the texas border might have some magical aspects.
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| There is a gal here in Montana that always has nice jackpot horses |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Whiteboy - 2016-04-05 1:56 PM
Its true, Scientists are still trying to figure it out but only horses that live in texas can run. They do however suspect that the texas border might have some magical aspects.
Now this is so true, and most of the horses here have Unicorn bred into them for these magical aspects. |
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Location: Montana | ShortnRound - 2016-04-05 5:42 PM There is a gal here in Montana that always has nice jackpot horses
I can think of a couple here in Montana that have good horses, and 1D/2D horsees, but not sure what they have right now. |
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| I think competition is tough anywhere. Of course I live in Oklahoma near that I 35 and horses here are tough ;) |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | You need to be checking here on BHW ads, I have seen some really nice ones latley that may be fitting for you.  |
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Location: MD | I can promise you that I have one for sale in TX right now who was a solid 1D horse here locally and had been at the TOP of the 1D up and down the East Coast. From the minute that she arrived in Texas, she has been at the top there too. She evn does super well at Pro rodeos. I don't care where you are, it's tough to pull the top checks at any kind of real barrel race! |
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Location: North Dakota | You're going to find tough competition in every state. Two of my good friends from North Dakota hauled to Waco for the 2014 WPRA World Finals and came home with the reserve world champion Futurity and the world champion Derby buckles. Both horses were "made" and patterned in ND. A lot of people limit themselves to surrounding states and that just causes them to "settle" on a horse instead of finding the right one. A few hundred extra miles and some determination could be the difference between an OK horse and THE horse. |
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Location: Moving soon..... | Whiteboy - 2016-04-05 1:56 PM Its true, Scientists are still trying to figure it out but only horses that live in texas can run. They do however suspect that the texas border might have some magical aspects.
Now that's funny and I am born and raised Texan. |
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Location: East Texas | WrapSnap - 2016-04-05 11:24 PM
I can promise you that I have one for sale in TX right now who was a solid 1D horse here locally and had been at the TOP of the 1D up and down the East Coast. From the minute that she arrived in Texas, she has been at the top there too. She evn does super well at Pro rodeos. I don't care where you are, it's tough to pull the top checks at any kind of real barrel race!
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I AM being nice
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Location: MD | Unfortunately, they just don't pay school teachers near as much as they should. |
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| If they can do well in California, they can do well in Texas. And vice versa. California is tough!!! 
Edited by gypsykalgirl 2016-04-07 1:28 AM
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Location: Texas |
I think that you need to know what you like in a horse. I live in TX but the last two horses I bought were from Florida and Nebraska. They definitely needed to have a little work done on them, but they are both pretty consistent winners.
It's not so much the horses that are tougher in Texas, it's more the competition that is so dang tough. There is a concentration of great trainers, big barrel races, and rodeos all over TX and Ok. That means if you want to place in the 1d or the 2d around here, you better get good at barrel racing. The more competition there is, the better you get, the better you get, the better your horse becomes. We've all heard the expression... You're only as good as your competition.
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