11/09/2025
I just can't believe how lucky I've gotten. I found my mustang at a sale barn August 3rd, tied in the back because he had no papers so he couldn't legally go through the sale. I made a deal with the seller and brought him home, knowing almost nothing about him other than the seller had picked him up at the Tulsa stockyards working cow pens the week before. Brand research says he's a 10 year old from Adobe Town, titled in 2019. I named him Boone. I found a phone number on his Coggins that was for a rodeo company. I spoke to the owner, who remembered my horse who told me they had tried to buck him out of the chutes but he wouldn't buck good enough so they sent him to the stockyards to be worked by the cowboys. Well that gave me pause...there had to be a reason someone thought he'd make a good bucking horse, right? Over the last couple of years I've been bucked off several times and broke bones and my confidence on a new horse is ZERO. I worked with him on the ground and found he'd had ALOT of training. Other than the brand on his neck, you'd never know he wasn't an old rope horse. Perfect manners, stands to be shod, touch him anywhere. But I couldn't bring myself to get on and ride. So I sent him to a trainer for 15 days to ride him and push his buttons. The only thing she found was fear of a rope dragging. And he doesn't mix well with other horses. Well we've now had our maiden voyage for trail riding. He did fabulous and it quickly became obvious to me he's been trail ridden ALOT. May have even been a pack horse based on how he gages the distance between himself and the horse in front and keeps it constant. Put him anywhere, front, middle, back - he just goes. Crosses water, logs, never batting an eye at anything. He's perfect for me to rebuild my confidence. I don't know what he's been through, but someone put alot of time and effort into this guy and he now has a home for life.