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Goodbye, My Friend - With Shane Plummer as featured on QHN

Hydrive Cat was humanely euthanized today, Oct. 15. It has been very hard leading up to this day, and now that it is done, there is a heaviness that will be with me for quite some time. It was the ri.... read more

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Boon Too Suen — You can expect EXTRAORDINARY results! - With Shane Plummer as featured on QHN

Boon Too Suen profile
Boon Too Suen, a National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) World Champion Stallion and an earner of $263,795, needs no introduction. The stallion is by Equi-Stat Elite $26 Million Sire Peptoboonsmal.... read more

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Decisions - With Shane Plummer as featured on QHN

SDP Buffalo Ranch owner Shane Plummer addresses crowd
Have you ever sat down to write something and stared at the blinking cursor waiting for yourself to type? That was me this morning with a blog entry due, the one you are now reading. How this works.... read more

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Horse Econ 101 - With Shane Plummer as featured on QHN

SDP Buffalo Ranch barn
Let me tell you something you already know. Horses. Are. EXPENSIVE! Yep, I said it. Wow, is this game expensive! The path with horses is not in a straight line. It is not an accounting measure of a.... read more

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One Roan Peptos — A World-Class Athlete - With Shane Plummer as featured on QHN

Stallion One Roan Peptos
Greatness might, at times, be thrown around too liberally. Marketing stallions is a competitive game and trying to find a niche is always fluid. But, this is about sharing greatness! Photo Cour.... read more

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Have Your Cake & Eat It, Too! - With Shane Plummer as featured on QHN

SDP Hy Rey Bound conformation shot
I have grown up in the horse business, probably not in the way you think, though. Yes, I was used for labor in my parents’ business — nothing unreasonable, but I did learn how to work. I did not gro.... read more

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A Good Bull - With Shane Plummer as featured on QHN

foals standing with mares
A good bull is half your herd; a bad one is all of it.” I can’t tell you how many times I heard this as a kid. My father often recited that mantra to countless mare owners to get them thinking about.... read more

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Momma Deafness - With Shane Plummer as featured on QHN

Scott Plummer headshot
My brother Scott … he was a hoot, I tell ya. The kid lived in trouble. My poor parents raising a kid like Scott, ha! It sure makes me chuckle now. He was three and half years older than I, my close.... read more

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Off to the Races - With Kim Gardner as featured on QHN

Kim Gardner SDP breeding manager
In the “real” world, winter is settling in and people are surviving until the sun comes again and spring is officially here. But, in the horse breeding world, January is a time of wonder. Some time af.... read more

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Embrace the Suck - With Shane Plummer as featured on QHN

There’s an interesting title for this blog entry, but it has been on my mind a lot these last couple weeks. “Embrace the suck” is a commonly used term in the military. Basically, it means to do what.... read more

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