Monty Buntin

Money Won

Titles/Finals

• 2022 El Rancho Spring Classic Open Way Out West Finalist riding Smooth Deception
  
• 2022 NCHA Super Stakes 4 Yo Open Semi-Finalist riding Heisenbergg
  
• 2022 NCHA Super Stakes 5/6 Yo Open Semi-Finalist riding Smooth Deception
  
• 2022 PCCHA Trainers Gold Cup 4 Yo Open Champion riding Smooth Bobbi Rey
  
• 2022 PCCHA Trainers Gold Cup 5/6 Yo Open Champion riding Smart N Hottish
  
• 2021 NCHA Futurity Open Finalist riding Heisenbergg
  
• 2021 NCHA Open World Finalist riding Steel Betty
  
• 2021 Brazos Bash Futurity Open Finalist riding Smooth Bobbi Rey
  
• 2021 Brazos Bash Reserve Champion riding Steel Betty

Top Three Horses Trained

• Starlights Little Cat
  
• Dual Cat Pepto
  
• Highbrow Jackson
  

At the age of 14 Monty worked for Yancy James who was great friends with Lance Harrel who got him introduced to the sport of cutting. From there Monty worked for Salvador Cabral in Texas for one and half years. It was at the NCHA Futurity when Monty was 18 he asked Allan Crouch for a job and Mr Allan said he wasn’t hiring at the moment but told Monty to go watch the Futurity and see who impresses you the most showing horses, then go ask them for a job! It was there that Monty saw Tim Smith score a 218 and loved the way Tim’s horses worked and he asked Tim for a job. That was the day Monty’s life changed! He worked for a year and a half with Tim and now Monty and his wife Tessa operate an extremely successful training operation out of Triple Crown Equestrian Center in Lincoln, CA, owned by Steve and Stacy Morgan.