
02/19/2025
In 1991, Peyton Raney traded a horse for a little buckskin gelding, registered as Nate Shilabar, who had previously been run through the Cleburne, Texas, livestock auction. She was hoping the little gelding would make her a nice rope horse.
Little did she know that the little bronc she dubbed “Hotshot” would one day become one of the greatest barrel horses in the history of the sport. With help from the likes of Ed Wright and the late Bob Ruffin, Raney turned her high school breakaway horse into a dream-making barrel horse.
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