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Professional singer-songwriter and AQHA World Champion Header Paul Bogart answers the phone clearly and with confidence, and from behind the wheel of a Kenworth rig, hauling a 53-foot box of dry goods that needs delivered in St. Louis, nearly 400 miles from his home in Oologah, Oklahoma, because—in addition to headlining music tours, competing on top-shelf horses and raising three children with his wife, Tanya—he is also an occasional driver for his dad’s trucking company.

At first glance, he’s a 40-year-old renaissance man. But really, Paul Bogart has spent his years becoming what he always was: A son to both a musically gifted mother who raised her children with her talents and to a trucking operator father who possesses a passion for raising the kinds of horses that can win world championships.

“Enjoy the Ride” (2010)

“I don’t know that there’s much that makes Jack happier than at a horse show or at a futurity when it says, ‘Bred by Jack Bogart, owned a by Jack Bogart, and ridden by Paul Bogart,” said 2022 AQHA World Champion Casey Hicks of Paul’s father, Jack.

The Bogarts have been a client of Casey Hicks Performance Horses for

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