The outriding career is going great and i will never complain about the money but outriding alone can not carry me all year. So for a job i am a horse shoer, I shoe for four drivers around the barn. Most of these drivers horses are done before the stampede even starts. But this year i did alot of work for Norm C. and Brian L. just cleaning up for them because their horse shoer could not make it. I some times can fix problem horses like two of Luke T. one had a broken coffin bone and we put a bar shoe on and it looks like he might make a full recovery and another has brittle back feet and i think i got him so the shoes will stay on. A couple days ago I put a shoe on for the Cassidy’s and yesterday i helped Jill moody barn crew put in mud nails for extra grip. For me to help them was very exciting i never thought my shoeing that that many big name cowboys and cowgirl would come looking for me to help them. I like shoeing but a night of outriding is hell of a lot better than a day of shoeing.
Dustin Gorst
