Born and raised on the Waggoner Ranch, Brooke started to develop a passion for horses at a young age. She explored many disciplines – gymkhana in high school, jumping in college and while living in Europe, and racing in the Mongol Derby in 2017 – she eventually focused in on the reining and reined cowhorses her family’s ranch was raising. She moved back to work on the ranch’s horse division in 2014 and started BMW Quarter Horses in 2016, transitioning from horses with a ranching influence to the highest levels of performance horses.

Wanting to further her education as a professional in the industry, Brooke got her Masters at Texas A&M University in Equine Industry Management, a unique program that mixes advanced equine studies with business. As part of her Masters, she spent a year in Lexington, Kentucky, working for the #1 Thoroughbred sales agency, Taylor Made Farm. She learned many different aspects of the racehorse industry while there before returning to Texas to figure out how to apply the things she learned to the western performance horse industry.

Through advice from her mentors and critical assessment of her developing breeding program, Brooke has seen success in the western performance horse industry very quickly. It is important to her to tie her family’s Quarter Horse foundation into today’s elite performers, and she was able to do so with the second foal crop that she bred independent from the ranch when Ten Thirty won the 2021 NRHA Open Futurity. He is out of Dainty Little Step, a mare bred and owned by the Waggoner Ranch, who was also the first reining horse Brooke competed on. Dainty Little Step was the first horse Brooke bought from the ranch and has been the cornerstone of her breeding program. She added half of Lonely At The Top to her broodmare band in 2020 and had the thrill of that mare’s first foal to show also winning the NRHA Open Futurity in 2023. Brooke has also bred Open Snaffle Bit Futurity Finalists in consecutive years.