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scwebster
Reg. Mar 2013
Posted 2019-04-29 10:24 AM
Subject: Diamonds in the rough



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Tell me your stories of the diamonds in the rough. The horses that weren't supposed to be great or were an unlikely canidate. Sometimes you just never know what may be standing out in your own pasture. 

A couple of mine:

A local young lady bought a bucking rope horse several years back and put him on the barrels. He now is a winner from ameature to the pros. 

A close friend of mine was given a half thoroughbred/half cutting horse gelding, trained him and began hauling. He was doing fair. During a futurity, he bled so bad that she took him to a HIGHLY reguarded vet in tx. The advice she was given was that he be retired from running barrels. She sold him as a rope horse project for like a thousand dollars...   He left that home and fell into a rodeo family. I looked up during the American qualifier to see him running and hitting a barrel to qualify. Did some reasearch and found that he not only is running barrels again but is WINNING all over the place from Oklahoma to Canada. Imagine the shock we felt when we saw the horse we knew to "never race again" laying down such a competitive run. Its almost like he found his way to the person he needed to bring out that full potential and that could work with him despite his quirks. From what I hear the current owners are pretty pleased with him as well, not expecting that this cheap reject rope horse with less than impressive papers would one day be her first string rodeo mount. Moral of the story, my friend had no idea what she had/sold and the current owner had no idea what she had bought. :



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bbennington
Reg. Nov 2009
Posted 2019-04-29 11:14 AM
Subject: RE: Diamonds in the rough



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scwebster - 2019-04-29 10:24 AM


Tell me your stories of the diamonds in the rough. The horses that weren't supposed to be great or were an unlikely canidate. Sometimes you just never know what may be standing out in your own pasture. 


A couple of mine:


A local young lady bought a bucking rope horse several years back and put him on the barrels. He now is a winner from ameature to the pros. 


A close friend of mine was given a half thoroughbred/half cutting horse gelding, trained him and began hauling. He was doing fair. During a futurity, he bled so bad that she took him to a HIGHLY reguarded vet in tx. The advice she was given was that he be retired from running barrels. She sold him as a rope horse project for like a thousand dollars...   He left that home and fell into a rodeo family. I looked up during the American qualifier to see him running and hitting a barrel to qualify. Did some reasearch and found that he not only is running barrels again but is WINNING all over the place from Oklahoma to Canada. Imagine the shock we felt when we saw the horse we knew to "never race again" laying down such a competitive run. Its almost like he found his way to the person he needed to bring out that full potential and that could work with him despite his quirks. From what I hear the current owners are pretty pleased with him as well, not expecting that this cheap reject rope horse with less than impressive papers would one day be her first string rodeo mount. Moral of the story, my friend had no idea what she had/sold and the current owner had no idea what she had bought. :


My favorite place to shop for these types of horses are on Craigslist. I m always looking for that special horse that just needs some TLC and usually people don’t know what they actually have.

  1. First was Ted a 16 + hand grey gelding. I could see every rib with a full winter coat on, they hauled him in a small two horse trailer backwards (yes his head was hanging out the back of the trailer). They won’t tie him to the trailer and could barely get the saddle on from him dancing around the whole time. I looked at my dad and thought what did I just get myself into. I got on him and just felt and knew this horse knows way more. We bought him and wow what an awesome horse he really was. Here is a video of him! https://youtu.be/Q8dlww5MsmY
  2. Then there was Dallas. A 15 hand cremello gelding that was that was left at a dressage barn since the owners didn’t pay their boarding fee. I was told that they thought he knew the barrels and poles but they knew nothing about that industry, they used him a little for some lessons. Bought him for $500 and I did some digging and turned out he had won a bunch out in AZ with the previous owner. With some groceries and some love he turned out to be another fantastic horse.https://youtu.be/8O8RFwCunes
  3. Next is my current gelding Fred. The lady’s daughter went off to college and she just needed to sell some horses. She had no videos but for some reason just trusted everything she told me ( won lots of barrel races including places in the 1d at BFA). She said he was really hot and had a little gate issue. Bought him for $1000. I can ride him bareback and is quiet for me and haven’t had any gate issues. We are running 1/2 second back with lots of room for improvement. I feel like I needed him just as much as he needed me. https://youtu.be/cd9QDQlxrd4
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Kay-DRacing.
Reg. Jun 2009
Posted 2019-04-29 11:17 AM
Subject: RE: Diamonds in the rough



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I have been lucky enought to have had 2 diamonds!

My first one was a weanling that was bought out of sale barn for $300. I bought him from my best friend for $2k because he was ugly, toed out, accident prone, and they never thought he'd make anything. He was consistanly at the top of the 1D by the time he was a 4 year old. My friend really wished she had never sold him! He was tragically hit and killed by a truck in 2009 at 7 years old. People still talk about him in my hometown which makes my heart happy.

 

My second one has a similar story! Little Wayne is my main mount these days. He was traded for a 2 horse rusted out bumper pull trailer, as a long 2 year old. Skin and bones, pot belly, with hair a mile long in the middle of a GA summer and was the size of a yearling. He was owned by a guy who thought 'horses were pretty' and had no clue how to take care of them. We took him home, immidiately wormed him and threw him out to pasture to grow. His growth was stunted but he is now a 15H beautiful, stocky, slick and shiny paint. Fat and sassy. Also a 1D horse in tough competion.

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Stride
Reg. Jan 2007
Posted 2019-04-29 7:39 PM
Subject: RE: Diamonds in the rough



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A little different diamond the rough mare--

I bought an Executive Menace daughter for $600 as a mousey grey unbroke 3 year old. She was pretty wild in hand and knew nothing. I started her, put her on barrels but then I made some discipline changes due to some unrelated experiences. I had been dabbling into the showpen for a while with a friends horse and saw some all around potential in my mare. In the past 9 months she's made a nice little walk-trot pleasure, trail, horsemanship and showmanship horse. We're still learning but she's making to be a pretty nifty novice horse so far. She's not bad for a hot blooded Chicks Beduino mare (: 

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