Country superstar Miranda Lambert’s latest video is out and devoted fans will recognize her costar as Cool, her stunning Quarter Horse. The song is a heartbreaking ballad called Run that appears on her new album Postcards From Texas:

Horse-Canada readers will remember that the songstress announced the arrival of Cool last year on Instagram. In the post Lambert wrote: “Y’all please welcome the newest member of our farmily [sic]. This is “Cool”. He is one of the sweetest horses I’ve ever met. He does it all with grace and patience and has already taught me so much.”
Lambert competes with Cool in cowboy mounted sharp-shooting events. The sport involves riders shooting .45 caliber, single-action revolvers that are loaded with five rounds of black-powder blanks. Each “ride” is timed, and the targets are balloons attached to stands or poles that are set up in one of 50 patterns.
When it came time to film the video for Run, she knew that to have Cool and other horses running wild across the screen suited the ballad. “There is always a sense of freedom when you’re on the back of a horse with the wind in your hair, so it felt really significant to have Cool with me in this video,” Lambert told KIK Radio. “I love horses because they’re a way to run to something – or away if you need to.”
The stunning video was shot D Spur Ranch and Riding Stables in Gold Canyon, Arizona, with images of her riding and snuggling Cool as other horses gallop through the rugged desert landscape complete with cacti.
The star also revealed that she began riding as an adult, but the hobby quickly became a lifestyle. “I started riding when I turned thirty and wanted to try more things that scared me,” she tells the radio station. “Now horses are such a passion of mine and mounted shooting is a brand-new way to push myself and to chase that feeling of being bravely true to yourself, which is exactly what this song is about.”
Lambert’s love of horses and all animals is part of who she is, having created the MuttNation Foundation in 2009 to shine a spotlight on rescue animals and shelters, raising in excess of $4.5 million since its inception. Her commitment to horses and western riding sports saw Lambert inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 2020.