Goat Tying Clinic a Success!!!!!

April 24 & 25 -The Goat Clinic was a ton of fun.  A little rain can't scare us out.  These are some really fun pictures of Jaylee, Olin, and Skylee at the clinic.  We had 10 kids and 12 goats.  That makes for a good time in anyone's book.  It was so much fun to see these kids learn and enjoy themselves.  So much progress was made and times will be getting faster at the rodeos.  I am so proud of Shawnee.  This was the first clinic that she had organized and put on all by herself and she did a great job!!!  I'd like to thank Dusty Sagers for feeding us.  No one went hungry at the goat clinic!!!!  I'd also like to thank all of the kids and their parents for joining us for the weekend.  We truly hope that you all learned something, left with new friends, and that you kick butt the rest of the season rodeoing. 

Kendra

It is really cold!!!!

It is really cold out right now, sometimes so cold that I don't even want to leave the house.  But, since I am a horse owner, horses come first!!!  This is a time of year that it becomes even more important to make sure that our horses are drinking enough water.  Some of the ways we make sure that our horses are drinking include making sure that they have fresh not frozen water, trough heaters are a great way to do this; we also feed about a tablespoon of salt to each horse in their grain, this helps make them stay on water and away from the vet!!!

What a Finals!!

I can't believe summer is behind us. We have already returned from the 2009 National Little Britches Rodeo Finea. This year was exciting as always. As expected Pueblo was warm and we got A LOT of rain. But. the rodeo must go on. And go on it did. Shawnee was really busy with 7 events. She had a bit of hard luck in most of them, but did really well in the goat tying. She placed in the first round, made the short go, and finished 7th in the world. We are really proud of her.

The dust has settled from finals and we are now back on the rodeo trail. We have already started the new season. It is hard to believe that we are already looking forward to the 2010 rodeo year.

I will try to post more often. Hope to see you down the rodeo road.

Breeding season is on its way!

It is that time of year again. Breeding season is right around the corner. The boys are dong well and ready to meet a few girls this year. I have been riding Ops all winter and he is amazing. He is staring to run a really pretty barrel pattern and is even trying his hand at a bit of jumping. I am so fortunate to have such a nice stallion. I am excited to see what he becomes and to see what his foals become.

Doc is also becoming pretty cool in his own right. He is working the barrels and poles quite well. He is FINALLY starting to rope. I have often said that I should not be allowed to own a horse with such amazing rope breeding. Maybe this summer we will finally put him to good use. Shawnee is really excited to start roping on him a lot. He is so natural.

I am thinking of doing something a little different this year with the boys. In addition to the regular breeding that I have done I am going to try to do a limited share holder agreement. In this agreement each share holder, with a limit of 30, would have the chance to buy a breed agreement to each stallion. This agreement would be sold for $3000 each share. The agreement would allow each holder to breed one mare each year for the next 10 years. That means that they would secure a breed to the stallion they purchased for only $300 per year. This is $200 less than the current breed fee and much less than the projected fee in the next few years. In addition, each share holder that sent a breeder to that stallion would recieve 10% of the breed fee. That means that they could pay for their breed each year. That is the idea in a very small nut shell. I hope that this idea will take off and allow me to really promote my boys. They really are awesome horses and I would love for people to be riding their babies. Let me know what you think!!!

Where Does The Time Go?????

Where does the time go. I can't believe it has been so long since I posted to my blog. I have been going crazy. But, I promise I will keep more up to date from now on. Shawnee has been busy rodeoing, working on school, and finishing up her NLBRA Princess Reign. Since the last time I wrote we have been to Las Vegas for the NFR and Denver to the WESA Market and the Stock Show. It is really amazing the wonderful people in the western industry.

Once again, I promise to write more often and hope to see you down the rodeo trail!!!

Getting Ready for Vegas!!!

It is that time of year again. The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo is just around the corner. It is amazing to me to think that another year has passed and we are going to Vegas again. It is almost comical to think that eventhough Shawnee is not competing, we seem to take more clothes to the WNFR and Miss Rodeo America than we do anywhere else we go. Shawnee and I have been really busy making and jewling clothes for about the last two weeks. I was hoping that she would still fit in the clothes she wore last year, but no such luck!!! Oh well, I guess that means we have more to sell on e-bay. Last year, the Miss Rodeo America pageant was amazing. We are expecting this year to be even better. We know a lot of the girls as well as a lot of the people involved in the pageant.

During our time in Las Vegas we will try to update as often as possible so that you can all see what is going on.

See You Down the Rodeo Trail!!!

Kendra

Cowgirl trying her hand at jumping!?!?!?

November 8th was a very interesting and fun day around here. Shawnee, along with a couple of my Wasatch Academy students, attended her first ever jumping competition. We took four of our "western" horses to an "English" show. Of course I only had them compete in the lower fences. Shawnee jumped the crossrails, 18", 2', and 2'3". It was so much fun.

Shawnee and Madonna Sure look different when they are jumping than they do tying a goat. It was really funny watching her jump.

Shawnee kept getting ahead of her horse and would get her legs behind her (as you can see in the picture). Because of this, she went off three times. It was hilarious. She landed on her feet all three times and kept ahold of the reins. So I guess mybe her version of jumping was not that different from goat tying. She just doesn't know how to ride Madonna without getting off. All in all, Shawnee and all of the kids did really well. Shawnee brought home 3 ribbons and Amanda (one of my students) brought home 4 ribbons. I was also really impressed with the horses she rode. Pete, Shawnee's 2009 futurity barrel horse jumped with Amanda all of the classes Shawnee jumped. He placed in all but one. Amanda also rode Special Ops my 5 year old barrel stallion (we brought him along for the ride, and I was then convinced to enter him). He had never jumped before and plowed through the cross rails only leaving two up. Dale Woolsey (an English jumping trainer) convinced us to enter him in the 18" class. He placed 5th there.

You may wonder why I would suggest that my daughter along with all of my nice "Western" horses work "English"? If you ask me, riding English will make the kids better riders and the horses better horses. Besides that, how many horses do you know of that you can take to a jumping show one day and a barrel race the next?