If Francisco Rosales' job brings in a Quarter Horse, can it be used immediately?

Rules Questions: Doomtown
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Consider the following situation:

  1. Maggie Harris runs her job at a location other than her home. (Correction: I misread her card. But this applies to Francisco Rosales.)
  2. “If successful” she chooses to put a Quarter Horse into play, attaching it to any dude in her posse

Can that dude immediately use the Quarter Horse’s ability?

React, Boot: After this dude’s posse succeeds at a job that didn’t mark your home, this dude stays at this location instead of going home booted.

In other words, what is the timing of “if successful” and “after this dude’s posse succeeds”, and how do they interact in this situation?

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Maggie Harris
Noon Job, Boot: Mark your home. If successful, search your discard pile for a Horse and attach it to any one of your dudes, reducing its cost by 1.

This question applies to Francisco Rosales and is not applicable to Maggie Harris since she targets your home.

Francisco Rosales
Noon Job, Boot: Mark the Town Square. If successful, search your discard pile for a Sidekick or Horse and attach it to one of your dudes, reducing its cost by 2.

Quarter Horse
React, Boot: After this dude’s posse succeeds at a job that didn’t mark your home, this dude stays at this location instead of going home booted.

The scenario answer is detailed as follows:

Step 5. Is the Job Done?
If the leader’s posse wins the shootout, or no player forms a defending posse, the job succeeds.

(At this time you can react with a Quarter Horse already in play)

Otherwise, the job fails. After the shootout ends, regardless of the outcome, survivors in the leader’s posse go home booted. Surviving dudes in the defending posse stay where they are.

Now resolve the effects of a successful job as given on the card, assuming the mark is still in play.

(At this time you would search for Quarter Horse and are past the point where your dudes are back home)

If not, the job succeeds anyway but the mark is unaffected. If the job fails, nothing happens. Finally, the remaining posses are dissolved and the job ends.

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