About the Faulk Performance Horses

Posted on September 12, 2013

My name is Barry Faulk, and I’ve had an obsession with horses for as long as I can remember. My heroes have always been cowboys, and that’s all I ever wanted to be. I was breaking and training horses as a young man, then working for my uncle, a farrier by profession, learning how to shoe because I couldn’t afford the twenty dollars to get mine shod. I later started getting serious about farrier work, going to clinics all over the Southeast. Now, I’ve been a farrier for 25 years.

I thought my horses were great-and they were-but about 10 years ago, I rode a reining horse, and my goodness! I knew that I was lacking. I’d been roping, sorting, team-penning, but I couldn’t believe the softness, and precision of these horses. My son, and I went right to work, trying to learn this in an area, where there are very few Reiners. We’ve had a lot of fun learning, and we continue to learn, and now have resources we had not had before.

My son Jesse, had been a very avid horseman since he could walk. He became a very proficient trainer and is now in medical school, and we’re very proud of him. My daughter Kara, was riding in the saddle with me before she could walk, she is now an editor, and writer in New York, and her dreams have taken her farther than I can dream. My daughter Anna, was the loudest rider. She was fearless as a child, and she must still be because she’ll soon graduate to be a school teacher. Houston is the youngest at age 10. He has won high point 10 and under at the shows, and were having a lot of fun watching him become a young man. My wife, Natasha is my partner on the ranch. She comes from a horseshow family, and she grew up with great trainers, and great horses. She’s led the nation in trail class in the Appaloosa Association. She’s a great asset; as I train she knows what looks good and what doesn’t, and she certainly isn’t shy about letting me know.
At Faulk Performance Horses we’re committed to growth, and developing horses. We look forward to the future here, and strive to further our passion with these horses.

–Barry Faulk