A Barn That’s More Like A Family: Jenell Pogue Performance Horses

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212 – November/December, 2024

By Brittany Vermeer

Unlike most of her peers, Jenell Pogue didn’t grow up on a ranch or have a rich family tradition in the horse industry. She grew up in a subdivision.

Her first interaction with a horse happened when she was ten years old–when she took her first riding lesson.

“My stepdad went to the Culver Military Academy, which has the historic Black Horse Troop,” she says. “I fell in love with the horses. Randomly, someone in the program was instructing at a local barn, so I asked if I could take a lesson. He assumed I’d ridden a horse before, but it was my very first time on horseback.”

Jenell was hooked and quickly signed up to take more lessons, which progressed to leasing horses and later competing in 4-H. But she didn’t have a horse of her own until her grandparents stepped in.

“My grandparents bought me my first horse. It was tragic and terrible, but I loved her,” she says. “I only had one other youth horse that I showed in AQHA. We had a big family meeting about that, because we were either going to get a hot tub, or I was getting a horse. I got the horse.”

In the Beginning

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212 – November/December, 2024