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“We’re pretty diverse. We’re
any entrepreneurs aim to identify their qualifications and convey their business focus when naming their businesses. Yet
Operation by Diane Rice
the more an operation entails, the longer the name probably more diverse than may need to be. But if you’re a man from Aubrey,
Texas, who boards mares and babies and trains and most places.”– Roger Daly sale preps horses for both racing and performance
events and your name is Roger Daly, well, the name Roger Daly Horses is sufficient.
Over the past 40-some years, Roger’s operation has evolved from breaking and showing colts (which, of course, they still do) to mainly sale prepping horses for major auctions, including those in the Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred racing industries and for the cutting, reining, jumping and barrel-horse arenas.
In addition to preparing horses for their intended careers, Roger and his crew retrain horses for new careers. “We get a lot of Thoroughbreds from the racetrack that we retrain to go into the jumping world or the dressage world, and we get quite a few Quarter Horses from the track that are going on into the barrel world or other careers.
“We’re pretty diverse,” Roger adds. “We’re probably more diverse than most places.”
His client and friend, 2012 NFR World Champion Barrel Racer Mary Walker of Ennis, Texas, couldn’t agree more. “He’s a world-class horseman,” she says. “He broke my colt Latte Ditto, a clone of my NFR World Champion Perculatin. Roger does everything from ponies to racehorses to jumping horses. He’s great at getting horses fit for
Mary Walker and 2012 Speedhorse Archives NFR World Champion
Perculatin.
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