It’s true that Gail R. McCulloch, vice president of indirect sales at PointOne, has been known to horse around. When he’s not busy generating revenue in the company’s alternative channels, he’s out collecting accolades for his prize-winning horses.
Gail said he always wanted horses, but finally got into this hobby in about 1988. Today, he has about 10 horses — a combination of Paint Horses and Quarter Horses — that compete and show in events like team roping, tie-down roping, working cow horse and most other events that have to do with ranch-type activities. “We have worked very hard to find horses that have winning bloodlines with world champions and have ‘cow blood and cow sense’ bred into them,” Gail explained.
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| Gail stands next to his award-winning horse, Zip, at a Paint Horse show in Stephenville, Texas, in November 2007. |
In fact, he has won many events at American Paint Horse shows, American Quarter Horse Shows, ropings and stock shows. One of his black and white stallions, Zip, is a four-time world champion and has earned about 500 American Paint Horse Association points — a very respectable showing in the horse world.
Gail can spend anywhere from 20 to 35 hours per week caring for the horses, with includes feeding and watering twice a day, and also doctoring, breeding, working with foals and riding. If he is showing the horses or competing in events with them, that consumes most of the weekend; but if not, and if it’s nice weather, sometimes he’ll ride up to six hours in one day.
Although Gail used to do a lot of the training, he said that these days, he gets them started and then sends them out for someone else to break them. “[I’m] getting too old to get bucked off,” he joked. “[But we] have a couple of the best trainers in the United States when it comes to training a horse for roping and competing.”
