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Niles’s Story:
I am from Kaycee, Wyoming where I grew up in a small ranching community of 250 people full of great cowboys and horsemen. We drag calves to the fire, ride miles of desolate country in the summer, and break ice in the winter. It’s not an easy life but at the end of the day you feel rich, not in a financial way, but a measure of self-worth. I didn’t come from a wealthy family. Growing up, my dad was the camp man on a 50,000-acre ranch. We lived on the mountain 5 months out of the year. There was usually deer or blue grouse on the menu come supper time. A long way from Walmart, when dad wore holes in his gloves, he patched them back to almost new. He broke piles of colts and cut piles of poles to make ends meet. I met my wife, Taylor Brock, in 2015 when I went to Stephenville, Texas to visit friends.                                                                                                                                                                   
Taylor’s Story
I am from El Campo, Texas that has a population of around 12,000 people and is more of a farming community. El Campo is known for its awesome waterfowl hunting, hog hunting, and rice fields. Neither of my parents ranched or rodeoed, but we always had a horse or two. I absolutely loved horses and wanted to rodeo. Eventually, I started riding and then rodeoing almost every weekend. I competed in Texas High School Rodeo, was on the rodeo team for Wharton County Junior College and day worked on the side. Once I moved off to Stephenville, Texas in 2014 to attend Tarleton State University I was introduced to the Tarleton Stock Horse of Texas Team and the cutting horse industry and have been intrigued since. I graduated in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in Animal Science. From there I worked for the state of Texas as a Texas Animal Health Commission Livestock Inspector for 5 years until we moved to Kaycee, Wyoming to work under Niles father who manages a ranch.        
        
How it all comes together:
We welcomed a beautiful girl into the world on July 22nd, 2019, and got married in 2020. We were blessed with a little boy on February 28, 2023. Our children are the light of our lives. We moved to give them the opportunity of living in a small ranching community, gaining real life skills, and experiencing great horses. We stay busy between training and breeding horses, leatherwork, and training American Border Collie Dogs. Those three things go hand in hand. We ride to do our job and give our horses a job, build our own tack (excluding saddles), and the dogs go to work as well. We love to see the foals in the spring, start colts and rope in the summer, along with fishing, hunting and spending time on the mountain with our family.
We started Bar Heart Horses in Texas while Niles worked for Graham Land and Cattle, and we needed a pile of horses for him to complete his job and keep food on the table. A horseman can get burned out riding someone else’s product when you have a vision of the perfect prospect. While we bought non-started 2-year-olds to make our own riding product, most of them lacked bone structure, cow, and/or trainability. This gave us the idea to produce our own product from start to finish… a lot easier said than done but here we are. We started with 5 mares and have been selective about them. Most of them have been used in all aspects of ranch work and have earned their right as a potential broodmare for us.