Shannon Bray grew up on a small horse farm outside Midland, Texas where her family bred and raised Quarter Horses. The family motto was, and still is, "quality, not quantity". This still holds true in her program today.

 As a youth she had a successful show career on several different horses. Shannon primarily competed in Halter, Showmanship, Western Pleasure, Western Horsemanship and Trail. She won many youth All Around Championships in the American Junior Quarter Horse Association. Shannon also excelled in horse judging competitions, winning the 1988 American Paint Horse Association World Championship in Performance Judging.

In 1990, Shannon attended Sul Ross State University. This started the next phase in her equine career. Shannon turned her successful show horse, Shadow, into a superb barrel horse. In 1992, she won several National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association barrel racing titles, including Dell City, TX and Portales, NM. She continued to compete and won  many Open Rodeos.

After college Shannon moved back to Midland where she started training horses and giving riding lessons full time. She kept a small string of lesson horses, serving over 20 students. While still competing in rodeos, she also hauled several of her youth students to AQHA, 4-H and many open horse shows. Shannon also kept several outside horses for training ranging from breaking and starting colts, show horses and barrel horses.

In the summer of 1999, Shannon moved to San Antonio where she still has a full list of students and young horses to ride.