By Ted Harbin

Photo Courtesy of Phillip Kitts/Avid Visual Imagery.

If there was an all-around title for equine stars, Jordan Muncy’s Woodrow might his have his own golden halter.

He was bred and raised to be a barrel horse, something Muncy needed. She had tried purchasing cheap ones off the track because that’s what she could afford, but there were always problems that came with them. She decided to breed her own with bloodlines she wanted.

“Woodrow is the first one I raised intentionally to be my personal horse,” Jordan Muncy said.

She comes from a ranching/rodeo family. In 2010, she was the national champion breakaway roper and all-around cowgirl at the College National Finals Rodeo, following in the footsteps of her big brother, Taos, who won the intercollegiate saddle bronc riding championship in 2007. Both attended Oklahoma Panhandle State University.

Taos Muncy also won the world championship that season, becoming just the third cowboy to win a college title and a world title in the same discipline in the same calendar year. He added another in 2011 and made 11 National Finals Rodeos.

They’re still involved in the sport. Jordan runs barrels and competes in breakaway roping; Taos is a pickup man. Woodrow is a big asset to both. Take last week’s Rooftop Rodeo in Estes Park, Colorado. Jordan arrived in the mountain community, where Taos and Woodrow were awaiting her. Taos was working the rodeo, and Woodrow was in his six-horse pickup posse. When the time arrived during the second performance, she did so on the red racer, stopping the clock in 15.95 seconds.

Jordan didn’t win any money, but she proved Woodrow’s versatility. He’s done a lot over his 11 years.

“There’s a lot to this story,” she said. “Right away, he’s just a big, gentle giant. He’s huge, but he’s just a teddy bear kind of horse.”

He’s also a winner. In 2018, Taos competed in a unique event, the Classic Events Championship that took place in conjunction with the Guymon, Oklahoma, rodeo. It featured bronc riders who could also compete in single steer roping, joining together rodeos original two events. Woodrow was 3 years old, and Taos won a round of steer roping on him.

“He’s done TV shows, and he’s the only horse my mom will ride on the ranch because he’s so gentle,” Jordan said. “They’ve carried the flag on him at Houston.”

In Clovis, New Mexico, a judge rode Woodrow for eight hours to flag steer roping. Jordan later ran barrels on him, and if that weren’t enough, steer wrestler Bray Armes reached out with a need for a hazing horse. Woodrow got the call.

“He had never hazed a steer in his live, but he hazed at Clovis, and I bought the picture,” Jordan said. “He really is an all-around horse. He’s my head horse, barrel horse, a pickup horse and my mom’s horse.

“He’s a horse for everyone.”