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| Does anyone have experience with Oklahoma Fuel bloodlines? How does that line do in the world of barrel racing? Are they typically on the smarter side or do they
tend to lack in the brains department?
I want to know the good, bad, and ugly. |
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  Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | My boy is out of an Oklahoma Fule mare, and he is super smart. Very easy going.
Have been running him for 3 years now and we are 2-4D in local races. Have hit the 3D but mostly 4D and sometimes 5D at big TX races. But that is all my mistakes/ timing not his. He listens very good to my queue's... sometimes too good... lol...
Can get a little bit naughty every once and a while, but when I get on him about it he is like... "oh ok, I am sorry..." and goes back to being the easygoing dork he normally is. |
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 To the Left
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Location: Florida | I have an Oklahoma grandson, he is not very motivated and has a nasty personality toward other horses. He is quite athletic, just doesn't much care to use it.
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Extreme Veteran
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| Vickie - 2017-01-21 10:44 AM I have an Oklahoma grandson, he is not very motivated and has a nasty personality toward other horses. He is quite athletic, just doesn't much care to use it.
How's he bred on the other side?
I'm looking at a granddaughter with small-name run on bottom |
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Location: Durango CO | I had a daughter of Two Timing Fuel for about 2 weeks. She was 6. I traded my yearling gelding for her. She was super quiet on the way home and even patiently waited in the parking lot of a Ford dealership whip I had my axle looked at.I got her home and started to work with her and a WHOLE DIFFERENT animal came out. I went to pick up her foot holding a rag in my hand to clean her foot with mud on it and she kicked me across the barn. I took her to the round pen to work her, that didn't work. I brought her back into the barn and went to pet her shoulder and she kicked me again!!!! I fell and hit my head against a corner feeder sitting on the ground. I tried working with her for a cpl more weeks and sent her back. The hauler who took her back to the seller told me she double barreled her trailer multiple times without provocation. That mare wanted to hurt you and she wild strike and kick and come at you.Im sure she was not the norm but I will never again have an OK fuel horse. |
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Location: South Dakota | Pete Oen has had great success with the good looking stallion, Strait Dallas Fuel...he sure looks like he loves to run barrels. |
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Location: southeast Texas | I have a son of Oklahoma fuel. To break he was a pain in the a**. Buck buck buck buck. Always giving you the stink eye. And a litany of behavioral issues. Finally got him broke by a cowboy in Oklahoma. If you didn't ride him every day he would try to launch you. Thru the years I would try different diets. Finally found a post on BHW about PSSM and he fit a lot of the symptoms. Started him on a PSSM diet. Saw improvement. He tests negative for PSSM 1 and suspect type two. With an alfalfa/jigs hay plus renew gold diet he is a new horse. He was still having a slight problem and on FB I had been reading about golden paste. A totally brand new horse. Before he was inconstant not sure what you would get that day. Now he is a happy horse, nickers when he sees me. If I don't ride for a week I don't worry about getting bucked off.
People have seen the problems I've had with him and now they come up to me remarking what a nice horse he has become and wonder at the years I've stuck with him. He is 17 now |
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To the Left
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Location: Florida | My boy is Seco McKay on the top and the bottom is TB tracing back to War Admiral. |
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| Boy, you all have said enough to make me run the other way and I am not even in the market. |
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| I have a granddaughter of Oklahoma Fuel with her bottom side going back to driftwood and doc bar. She was super easy to break, runs 1D-2D in tough oklahoma competition, very smart but stubborn at times. She's not a fan of men and has quite the attitude towards them. I've heard stories of people saying they are buckers but mine only crow hops about two steps and that's the end of it. I think it all depends on what the other side of the bloodlines look like. Family friends have her siblings some full and some half, they all run barrels and rope, they are hard working horses.
I wish I had 10 more just like her!
Edited by okbarrelracer 2017-01-21 10:37 PM
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 Quarter Horse HIstorian
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Location: Aubrey, Texas | Sorry- double post
Edited by cloverleaf 2017-01-22 5:07 PM
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Quarter Horse HIstorian
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Location: Aubrey, Texas | I have a (retired) granddaughter of Oklahoma Fuel/Sonny Dee Bar cross. She was wicked fast, quick-footed and perfectly balanced- smooth in her turns. You could send her from the back forty and she would nail the first barrel. She is the most athletic horse I've ever owned, plus personality to match. She was 14.2 1/2 and weighed 1175 in her prime. Like a lot of Oklahoma Fuel horses, she was low in her back- her only conformation fault. She came with a few quirks but got much, much better. I wish I had known about PSSM and all it's ramifications, as I believe that was probably the cause of most of her quirks. Knowing what I know now about nutrition, and how to work with one like that, I would take another one just like her in a heartbeat.  Not saying, at my age, I could stay on the quick little heifer- |
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