Bent E Quarter Horses

Bent E Quarter Horses Bent E Quarter Horses is a family business with a goal of raising and training Working Quarter Horses
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09/08/2026

The best horsemen are still students.

I don’t care how many horses you’ve trained.

I don’t care how many shows you’ve won.

I don’t care how long you’ve been doing this.

If you think you’ve got horses figured out, you’ve probably stopped learning.

Every horse has something to teach you.

Every rider you work with can show you something.

Every mistake can point out a hole in your program.

And sometimes the thing that teaches you the most is the horse that doesn’t make things easy.

I’ve been doing this a long time, and I still have things I’m trying to understand.

Still things I’m trying to improve.

Still days when a horse shows me something and I think, “Well, I hadn’t thought about it that way before.”

That’s not a failure to know enough.

That’s being a horseman.

Because the best horsemen never stop being students. Thanks Royce Goodman for always helping me get better

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Happy Labor Day! 🇺🇸Today is a good day to be thankful for people who work.For the people who get up early to bale hay, b...
09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day! 🇺🇸

Today is a good day to be thankful for people who work.

For the people who get up early to bale hay, build fences, cut timber, weld something back together, milk cows, work cattle, drive trucks, build houses, fix equipment, or simply make something useful with their own two hands.

There’s something pretty special about labor that leaves something behind when the day is over.

A barn got built.
The hay got put up.
The lumber got sawn.
The cattle got worked.
The job got done.

So today, I’m thankful for the people who produce.

Happy Labor Day to the folks who aren’t afraid of a little dirt, sweat, grease, and hard work.

Keep producing. The world needs people who do.

A less talented horse can teach you just as much as a truly talented horse.Everybody loves riding the horse that natural...
09/07/2026

A less talented horse can teach you just as much as a truly talented horse.

Everybody loves riding the horse that naturally wants to stop, naturally wants to turn, naturally wants to chase a cow.

Those horses are fun. And they can make you look pretty good.

But give me the horse that doesn’t naturally stop.

Give me the one that doesn’t want to spin.

Because that horse is going to test my program.

If I can take a horse that doesn’t naturally want to do something and teach it to do it well, I’ve learned something about training that the naturally talented horse may never have taught me.

The talented horse can validate your program.

The less talented horse can transform it.

And sometimes, when you find those holes, you have to change the way you train.

That’s where things get interesting.

Because the goal isn’t just to make this horse better.

It’s to become a better horseman because of this horse.

Thanks to those who support us
ZZ Rawhide & Leather
MVP
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We want our horses, dogs, and kids to be trainable and coachable.We want them to listen.We want them to accept correctio...
09/06/2026

We want our horses, dogs, and kids to be trainable and coachable.

We want them to listen.

We want them to accept correction.

We want them to try something different when what they’re doing isn’t working.

We want them to be humble enough to learn.

We owe it to them to be the same.

One of the hardest parts of getting better is being humble enough to recognize the things we aren’t doing well.

It’s easy to see the hole in somebody else’s horse.

It’s easy to see where somebody else’s riding could improve.

It’s a whole lot harder to have somebody point out something we’re doing wrong and say, “They’re right. I need to work on that.”

But that’s being coachable.

There’s a passage in the Bible about seeing the speck in your brother’s eye while ignoring the log in your own.

Matthew 7:3–5.

Go ahead. Open your Bible.

It’s pretty good advice for horsemen, too.

Before I worry too much about fixing everyone else’s mistakes, I need to make sure I’m willing to fix my own.

Because if I expect my horses to be coachable…

I better be willing to be coached, too.

Thanks to those who keep us humble and appreciative
ZZ Rawhide & Leather
MVP
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I want folks to ride my horses.I keep safety in mind, of course. I’m not going to put someone on a horse that isn’t appr...
09/05/2026

I want folks to ride my horses.

I keep safety in mind, of course. I’m not going to put someone on a horse that isn’t appropriate for them.

But if my horses will do it for someone else, I can count on them doing it for me.

And honestly, I want to see what happens when somebody else rides them.

Because that’s one of the best ways to find the holes in my training.

Maybe something I thought was solid isn’t as solid as I thought.

Maybe there’s something I can explain better.

Maybe there’s something I’m asking for that I haven’t made clear enough.

Or maybe the horse knows exactly what I’m asking, but I haven’t done a good enough job teaching the horse to do it for somebody else.

That’s useful information.

A horse doing everything perfectly for me doesn’t necessarily mean I’ve done a great job training it.

Sometimes the best way to find your weaknesses as a trainer is to put somebody else in the saddle.

If my horse struggles when someone else rides it, I don’t automatically blame the rider.

I start looking for the hole in my training.

Because if I can find the hole, I can get better.

And that’s exactly what I want my horses to help me do.

Thanks Ian Kersch for always riding my horses.

ZZ Rawhide & Leather
MVP
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It’s not the big movements that make our horses look good.It’s the precise little ones.In the show pen, the biggest scor...
09/04/2026

It’s not the big movements that make our horses look good.

It’s the precise little ones.

In the show pen, the biggest scores don’t come from simply making a big maneuver. They come from all the little things inside that maneuver.

It’s the exact placement of a foot.
The softness in the bridle.
The way a shoulder stays in place.
The balance through a turn.
The timing of the stop.
The horse waiting for you instead of anticipating you.

Big maneuvers can be impressive.

But precision is what makes them great.

The difference between a good run and a really good run is often made up of a whole bunch of little things that most people watching never even notice.

That’s why I don’t think we should just train our horses to do the maneuver.

We should train them to do all the little pieces of the maneuver correctly.

Because sometimes the smallest things are what make the biggest scores.

Thanks to those who support us
ZZ Rawhide & Leather
MVP
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When someone lets you ride their horse, listen to them.Even if they tell you the sky is green.When someone puts you on t...
09/03/2026

When someone lets you ride their horse, listen to them.

Even if they tell you the sky is green.

When someone puts you on their horse, they are trusting you with something that matters to them. And if they are trying to teach you something, your job isn’t to immediately decide whether you agree with it.

Try it.

Listen.

Feel what they’re asking you to feel.

Because sometimes what sounds strange from the ground makes a whole lot more sense from the saddle.

And sometimes the thing they are asking you to do isn’t even really about the horse. They’re trying to teach you something.

There is plenty of time to ask questions afterward.

There is plenty of time to say, “I’m not sure I understand why you want me to do that.”

But while you’re riding someone else’s horse, give them the respect of actually listening to them.

They trusted you enough to put you on their horse.

Be humble enough to learn from them.

Thanks for listening Kristi Reedy

When the GPS says 99 miles to go…🎶 99 miles to go on the road,Drive one more, pass a car,98 miles to go down the road… 🎶...
09/02/2026

When the GPS says 99 miles to go…

🎶 99 miles to go on the road,
Drive one more, pass a car,
98 miles to go down the road… 🎶

And now you’ve got that song stuck in your head for the rest of the drive.

If you know, you know. 😂

You might be a horse show person if seeing 99 miles to go immediately makes you start singing this.

It’s okay to suck.Nobody starts out good at something.Every great horseman you admire was once the person who didn’t kno...
09/02/2026

It’s okay to suck.

Nobody starts out good at something.

Every great horseman you admire was once the person who didn’t know what they were doing. They made mistakes. They missed their timing. They asked questions. They did things wrong.

The difference is, they kept going.

You don’t get to skip being a beginner on your way to becoming a master.

You have to be willing to be bad long enough to get better.

So if you’re learning to ride, train, show, rope, work cattle—or anything else—and you feel like you’re terrible at it…

Good.

You’re right where everybody starts.

Don’t quit because you suck.

Sucking is the first step toward mastery.

📸Amy Pfaff

Hey, neighbor…What do you call a cat that likes to work with horses?A purr-fessional. 😂
09/01/2026

Hey, neighbor…

What do you call a cat that likes to work with horses?

A purr-fessional. 😂

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Coffeyville, KS
67337

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