Horse girls, rejoice: Bella Hadid and her rumored cowboy boyfriend (cowboyfriend) are still giddying up across Texas. On Tuesday, professional horseback rider Adan Banuelos shared a video of Hadid competing in the Limited Amateur category at a National Cutting Horse Association event in Weatherford, Texas. According to Sports Illustrated, Hadid and Metallic Trio (that’s the horse) scored 132 points, which earned them an “impressive” eighth-place finish.
Back in October, TMZ filmed Bella nuzzling, stroking, and holding hands with Banuelos in Fort Worth’s historic Stockyards — a district formerly known for its bustling live cattle market. At the time, she was newly single after a split with art director Marc Kalman.
Horses are, of course, one of Bella’s greatest passions: She’s been riding since she was 3, and once told Teen Vogue that she was potentially headed toward the Olympics when her career was derailed by a Lyme disease diagnosis in 2016. In March of last year, she dusted off her jodhpurs to compete at an event in Florida. And since sharing that she’s “finally healthy” after an intensive Lyme disease treatment, she’s been seen at the stables several times.
While the couple has never officially confirmed their relationship, it does seem that Hadid has found someone who shares her interests. Banuelos is one of the youngest-ever inductees into the National Cutting Horse Association Riders Hall of Fame and, according to his own website, a “leader in the performance horse industry” who specializes in training and showing cutting horses. (Cutting horses, I guess, are bred and trained to separate a single cow from a herd in competition.) Might he be the stallion to Bella’s mare, the spurs to her boots? They aren’t galloping into the sunset together just yet, but we give this a yeehaw just the same.
This post has been updated.