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ERFORMANCE RO C HORSE O S S ALE 2019 09 CSRR PEER * Prospects offered at Copper Spring Ranch

August 10 in Bozeman, Montana

I AM FURIOUS 123 2017 Filly by Furyofthewind (sire of

CANYON FULL OF CASH 2017 Gelding by Firewater

FABULOUSLY TALENTED 2017 Gelding by Prime Talent (sire of 2018 RAM NCFR Champion) × KN Fabuloustinywatch

by Frenchmans Guy. He is extremely natural with his collection and has a very nice carriage. Future Fortunes, PESI and Pink Buckle enrolled. Consigned by Copper Spring Ranch

2019 Ft Smith Futurity Champion, Mystery In The Winds) × Very Dashin 123 (earned $44,112 racing, 100% Winner/ ROM Producer). Future Fortunes, PESI, Pink Buckle enrolled.

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Canyon × Allies Cashin In ($22,656 EquiStat barrel earnings). FWC’s three 4 year olds have earned $7000 at some very tough venues, Ft Smith and BFA. Future Fortunes, PESI, Pink Buckle enrolled. Consigned by Copper Spring Ranch

IMA COWBOY BABEE 2017 Gelding by DashTa Fame ($22.3 million barrel earners) × Cowgirl Cartel by Corona Cartel (si 97 $61 million progeny earnings). His moves are natural and balanced and his willingness has been noticed by us all. PIF WPRA-PESI. Consigned by Copper Spring Ranch

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× JK Reckless Lady (Barrel Earnings $184,864, 2018 Montana Pro Rodeo qualifier). Mare power times two! FWC dam Mulberry Canyon Moon and“Lady.” Future Fortunes, PESI, Pink Buckle enrolled. Consigned by Copper Spring Ranch

(race progeny earnings $6,957,127) out of Shez Easy Onthe Eyes—2010 & 2011 World Show Qualifier, won AQHBA Circuit Championship 2X. Future Fortunes, PESI and Pink Buckle enrolled. Consigned by Copper Spring Ranch

e are honored to join some of the top breeders in the country to bring a select group of horses to the Copper Spring Ranch sale this year. Please look them over, ask questions and enjoy your time with us in Bozeman!

Copper Spring Ranch Sale Graduates will be eligible for the annual $5000 Sale Graduates Bonus added to our Open 2D Futurity, May 29–30, 2020.

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O C HORSE O S S ALE 2019 09 CSRR PEERFORMANCE * Prospects offered at Copper Spring Ranch

August 10 in Bozeman, Montana

TR FAMOUS BADGER 2016 Stallion by leading barrel sire Dash Ta Fame (si 113 $22.3+ million barrel earners) × TR Dashing Badger ($850,000 LTE, 2X NFR Average Winner with Jill Moody). This well-bred stallion is consigned by Thomas Ranch

LK SHE FAMOUS 2018 Filly by DashTa Fame out of LK Shezapeasadinero who has earnings of over $150,000 in the barrel pen and is a full sister toTammy Fischer’s mare LK Sheza Hayday, who qualified for last year’s NFR. She is the total package. Consigned by Kassie Mowry

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DUDES SPRING FLING 2017 Stallion by A Streak Of Fling (progeny earnings $3.782 million) × Dasher Dude, who with Britany Diaz amassed $570,000 barrel earnings from NFR, Pro Rodeos, Canadian Finals, Calgary, Cloverdale Invitational and ERA. Consigned by Britany Diaz

A FAMOUS FLING 2016 Gelding by A Streak Of Fling out

JL CADENCE 2017 Filly by Canadian Finals Rodeo Qualifier, Frenchstreaktorodeo (Frenchstreaktovegas full brother) × JL Cyan by Red (barrel earners of $476,000). She has a CBHI Certificate for Ponoka Futurity. Consigned by Jill Lane Quarter Horses

barrel earners) out of an own daughter of Ronas Ryon (si 105 with $1,777,967 LTE and progeny earnings of $8,948,653. PIF Future Fortunes, Pink Buckle Enrolled. Will have 4-5 months of riding by sale day. Consigned by Mill Iron Livestock

of Miss Lucky Lucky (si 93 $90,000 LTE)—a Dash Ta Fame daughter. Already running a mean set of barrels. PIF Future Fortunes and Triple Crown 100. Consigned by Smoke Creek Quarter Horses, Bill & Cheryl Kennedy

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Serving buyers and sellers for 21 years

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illings Livestock is known to many as a premiere location to sell cattle, but its beginnings were rich as a horse and mule auction in 1934.

Eighty-five years later, every fourth Saturday of the month still brings buyers and sellers looking for just the right horse.

Jan Parker and her late husband Bill started the monthly horse sale in 1998 at Billings Livestock. Moving into their 21st year of sales, the Billings Horse Sale (BHS) still brings hundreds of horses and thousands of buyers from across the country.

Jan and her husband Bill were horse trainers for nearly 10 years before they started the Billings Horse Sale They knew there was an opportunity to sell horses and have a nice preview that would give buyers a chance to purchase a horse with confidence. If they could give buyers a chance to actually see horses and give sellers the opportunity to show off their prospects, it would allow buyer confidence in the product. This was before the Internet, cell phones, YouTube, or Facebook, when Jan and Bill would invite potential buyers to preview horses at the Parker home. The Parkers knew they were onto something and the Billings Horse Sale took off. Today, Jan runs the Billings Horse Sale with a great team of people. Additional advertising has generated more customers and talk around the consignment sale, something that Bill and Jan implemented into their business strategy early on.

Each month, they publish a catalog full of horses, mules and ponies to promote the sale and give buyers a heads-up of what is available. They also offer access to their text club, which sends updates on sales and horses offered. Whether you are looking for your next cow pony, trail riding friend, or performance horse, you can find them all at the Billings Horse Sale on the third Saturday of the month.

Sale previews start on Friday at the indoor facility of Miller’s Horse Palace near Laurel, Montana. Sellers can show off barrel prospects, rope horses, cutting horses or simply ride through. Every seller is given a fair opportunity to show off their product, and because the sale is federally licensed and bonded, everyone is welcome to attend, no invitation necessary.

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“We are all things to all people,” said Jan. “We sell all kinds and classes (of horses) every month and we have done this for 21 years, nearing our 230th sale.”

September of last year the 150-thousandth horse was sold at the Billings Horse Sale.

“I think it is the credibility,” said Jan. “We were one of the first horse sales to include consigner’s phone numbers in the sale catalog and a mailing list of 15,000 as well as an insert in Tri-State Livestock News each month.”

Jan encourages buyers to make a short list and plan to come to Billings if they see something they like. She says, “their ‘good’ isn’t my ‘good,’ which might not be your ‘good’ when it comes to finding a ‘good’ horse.”

Seeing that “good” horse in a catalog is different than seeing it in person, and Jan wants buyers to see them at the preview.

The staff at Billings Livestock and those who help Jan through the sale each month are another reason the horse sale is so successful.

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“From check-in staff to auctioneers to ring men to the man who run the stripping shoot, everyone wants to be here and there is an energy to it,” said Jan. In May, the top selling horse brought $27,000. Jan described the horse as being “impeccably perfect.” She also had nearly 30 head that brought anywhere from $2,400-$3,400.

“This is what makes us, us,” said Jan, “We are everything to everybody. Not a once a year sale, we are once a month, and you are guaranteed to get paid on Tuesday at noon.”

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ting, and hunting territory, which brings a lot of different horses to the sale. Each month you can find an array of Gypsy Vanners, daughters of Frenchman’s Guy, draft crosses, ponies and mules and everything in between.

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“The partnership between With or without tackroom Billings and the horse See yourLivestock Wilson Dealer More Details sale for is so good, ” said Jan, “With

Northern Livestock Video being produced out of Billings, and selling about 123,000 head of cattle year, there is a lot of energy happening around here.”

In 2018 Jan sold 5,781 head of horses, that’s down from the 10,371 head she sold in 2016. Jan says this is a reflection of the number of horses that are bought and sold across the whole United States. She says the population of horses has gone down as a whole, and we don’t see people using them as they used to.

Today, people are looking for a better horse, according to Jan. Better bred, better trained, better in all classes and divisions. And they want to ask questions, and see the horses for themselves.

Cooper Smith, a horse trainer from Texas, said part of what keeps him coming back to the Billings Horse Sale is the variety of options at the sale.

“This is the best horse sale in the country, as far as a monthly horse sale,” said Smith.

Smith says the BHS offers a greater variety than anywhere in the country, and the office staff is accommodating. He attributes the atmosphere around the Horse Sale to the Montana and Western way of life.

The BHS has been a good spot for Smith to sell his horses, and also a great place to buy horses for customers and himself. He remembers his first time at the Billings Horse Sale being when he was about 12 or 13 years old selling horses with his dad.

Smith’s business is largely impacted by the BHS. He likes to take a nice set of horses for their Sons and Daughters sale in the fall, and his network has grown immensely due to the friends he has made at the sale.

Smith says the BHS offers no stress and no hassle during

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the sale process. He says the experience is enjoyable and easy for the buyer and the seller.

“They try to have fun with it,” said Smith. “They keep it very lose and professional, friendly and upbeat. It doesn’t have to be such a strict, strict business” Jan says the future is bright for the Billings Horse Sale, and she doesn’t see it going away anytime soon. While the number of horses in the world might be dwindling, the Billings Horse Sale will always have a place to preview and sell your horse with an easy and stress-free buying environment.

The special summer horse sale takes place in June, and the Mid-Summer horse sale in July. Be on the lookout in Tri-State Livestock News for the horse sale insert each month or visit Billings Horse Sale on Facebook for the most current update on horses they have to offer.

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Wyoming ranch provides hope for inner city kids

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John and Carolyn Alm were living the fast-paced, successful corporate lifestyle in Atlanta when they decided to fulfill their dream of founding a program where they could give kids who might not have a bright future a better shot at life. It was 1998 when they found the perfect place near Hyattville, Wyo. It just happened to be a working cattle ranch.

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The first colt of 2019 – he’s out of Alm’s Hancock stud and a mare with lines to Freckles Playboy, Dry Doc and Peppy San.

“We had no intentions of becoming involved with cattle or horses,” says Carolyn Alm. “But we found this place in just three weeks and it was perfect for what we were looking for – but it also came fully stocked with 800 cow calf pairs, so we decided to just keep running it as a cattle business too.”

“I fell in love with the land, with learning how to use livestock to do a better job of caring for the land,” she says. “I learned you don’t change a landscape overnight, you don’t change it even in two years – it’s more like 10 years. But it’s very rewarding, to raise healthy animals while improving the land.”

They bought Paint Rock Canyon Ranch in 1998, started building facilities and a camp, and opened for their first session of campers in 2000. In the meantime, Carolyn moved up to Wyoming “to figure out what we had bought here.” She dove into learning about ranching.

As a first-generation rancher, Alm recognized that most cattlemen and women have been engrained in the culture for generations and ranching wasn’t something you could “just take a class in.” But she was not intimidated. “There’s a lot to learn, but others before me have learned it. I read everything I could, asked everyone who would stand still for my questions. We got through it.”

Today they maintain their Angus-based commercial cowherd and market their calves after weaning. They’ve done all-natural programs in the past, but even though they don’t market as that, Alm says most still are. “We are really just trying to raise something that will feed out well and taste good.”

Carolyn ran the ranch for almost 10 years while John continued in his role as CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises in Atlanta, and they both commuted back and forth.

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When John retired in 2007 Alm jokes he “took away her job,” of managing the ranch. So she started raising Quarter Horses – and good ones. By first purchasing a band of quality brood mares, she added well-papered studs with pedigrees like Gallo Del Cielo, Hollywood Dun It, Playgun, Freckles Playboy, Peppy San, Hancock and Doc Bar popping up.

Today her herd numbers well over 100, with 35 brood mares and five stallions. She sells most of the colts,

although she says it was hard to at first. She also works with trainers who show and compete with many of her best mounts. Photos of her program and colts for sale can be found on One Broken Heart Quarter Horses on Facebook.

“We talk to them about where their food comes from, the effort it takes, how we care for the animals, how the things in your grocery store end up there,” she says. “Most of these campers – most people everywhere today – have no idea how their food is produced.

Although Alm says a working ranch experience is not the goal of the camp, it creates a perfect backdrop, and horseback riding is a large component of the experience she shares with disadvantaged inner-city kids.

“There are so many misconceptions about water, cows hurting the environment, getting us off public lands – there’s a lot of garbage out there. The tree huggers are out-talking us.”

Painting a future Camp Paintrock was the vision of John and Carolyn for years. Both were true “bootstraps” success stories. “My husband and I both started with nothing in our lives – we each had left home at 17 after high school. We were fortunate enough to be in the right places at the right time, and when the opportunity presented itself, we were able to do very well at work.”

Traditional camping activities create a space where inner city kids learn about a bigger world beyond Los Angeles.

Alm says she had enjoyed camp as a kid, and John had seen his children benefit from summer camps while realizing not all kids had that privilege.

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Students of the class of 2020 visit Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park during their first summer experience.

They felt the obligation to give back. “Writing a check is wonderful, but we wanted to do more than that,” she says.

They started the C5LA Foundation with the core principle of helping youth with few opportunities graduate from high school and pursue college.

The bedrock of the program is Camp Paintrock. Each summer 72 students – two sessions of 18 boys and 18 girls who are going into eighth grade – come from inner city Los Angeles to remote Wyoming for one month.

Recruiters select from among several hundred applicants those who have high potential, are not in trouble, and who are willing to commit to the program but who need extra support.

Their world is vastly disparate from the Wyoming ranch.

For most of the kids, it’s the first time they’ve left the boundaries of LA. Many have had family members or friends shot just walking down the street. Many do the work of an adult to survive.

Some campers have been awed that the mattresses are on bunk beds. “They say, ‘You mean we can sleep here?’

They are used to keeping their mattresses on the floor because the bullets come in the windows at night.”

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Students from the class of 2021 on a cultural experience “Pathway Event” visit the California African American Museum and learn about the history of the culture.

Alm says some of these kids come from environments she never pictured existed in the United States.

“This is their everyday life they accept as normal, and the message we are trying to present is: There is a lot bigger world outside your neighborhood. You can get away. You have something special going for you already – you’re not in a gang, you’re not doing drugs, you’re not pregnant. Somehow you have kept yourself on track even without a support system. Now, we want to help you realize your full potential.”

Participants attend four different summer experiences during their inaugural summer: Camp Paintrock for one month, a two-week backpacking trip, a one-week college tour, and a one-week college dorming experience. After that a strong network of staff, volunteers and alumni envelope the program participants tightly for the next four years, working to help them become leaders, community citizens, and guide them through graduation and college application. In a community where high school dropouts are the majority, the goal – and thus the program name – is to get these kids to college in five years.

The results are strong. Currently 100 percent of the more than 700 C5LA alumni have graduated high school and 95 percent have matriculated to college.

“Dirt don’t hurt” this crew, who seem to be enjoying the fundamentals of nature at Camp Paintrock.

Students from the class of 2022 on a community mapping “Pathway Event” where they get to explore the area they live in and become educated on issues impacting their community.

Joy Flores-Perez is office administrator for the C5 Youth Foundation of Southern California, and program alumnae. She says being part of the program meant being able to experience and learn things she wouldn't have otherwise been able to while living in Los Angeles, as well as graduate high school and go on to receive a bachelor's degree in psychology in 2017. She is a first-generation college graduate.

“All the experiences – from outdoor activities such as backpacking, horseback riding, rappelling, and watching the Wyoming starlit night sky, to being able to visit and learn about different college campuses in California, how to apply to these institutions, and how to pay for college tuition – were all opportunities that would have been out of reach for my family living in Los Angeles,” FloresPerez says.

“The outdoor activities helped me learn what my limits were so I could push myself further, and taught me to step out of my comfort zone because, more often than not, we are capable of doing much more than we think we can.”

Alm says the message of the program and the accumulative experiences is: You can do anything you want. We will help however we can. “Our number one goal is to get them through high school, but it’s much bigger than that.”

Traditional camping activities create a space where inner city kids learn about a bigger world beyond Los Angeles.

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A bronc, a smart horse and cholla

By Jan Swan Wood

Years ago when I was working on a ranch in New Mexico, I had an experience that I wouldn’t have believed if I hadn’t seen it for myself.

When I went to work on the outfit, I was told I could have one personal horse. I had a string of horses assigned to me when I signed on, so I wasn’t really in need of my personal horse, but I had a big gelding that I knew I had better keep riding or he’d get to where I couldn’t. I called this horse Luke and he was a four year old and stood well over 16 hands. He was a well bred horse and good looking but had had a bad start before I got him and was a dirty, treacherous son of a gun.

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He could really buck, but worse than that, he was a dangerous on the ground. He’d strike you without much provocation and could kick a person no matter where you were standing if within six feet. I only curried him where I needed to put the saddle and had “stolen” rides on him for about four months when I headed south.

His arrival on the ranch was heralded by virtually every horse in the 85 head cavvy having to take a run at him. His upholstery got a little marred, but he was quick and fast and figured out how to stay alive. I didn’t feel very sorry for his friendless state and thought he might decide he liked me if he didn’t have any horse friends.

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About month he arrived, he came cavvy one morning a short chollaorstuck his neck a fewa inches the to animal after few of these butthe who has always had a with strong flightbranch ver- ofman One alate July after or August day years ago,in with fromand his Ithroatlatch.

Cholla (choy-a) those who don’t know, a wicked kindon ofhe cactusexperiences. that gets big and tall and has branchmy back brother were sent an hour south forsus fight mentality – if is you can hang After gathering uparms his and horse and take you safetyonwith him,toifcatch you canof our place to getcovered the bulls of our es that are simply without stickers.

Thosewill stickers havetohooks the tips in anything that passes, including completing yearling heifers. years previous, we not, like thataishorse’s a personal problem forfestered you. there shotgun chaps,As andinwill really dig into something neck. Once they’ve for a while, the they’llunplanned drop off andunsaddling a new I also knew that of our two horses, his process, I began to wonder how long it were prepared withwhere our geldings, cholla is planted it lands. enough semi-heavy duty panels to convert the two- was hands-down the faster, and my heart would take me to get three bulls sorted out andthe into the less-than-ideal corral leaped at thevery thought penPulling corralainto something you could load cholla off of something is very painful and I into knewmy thatthroat Luke might well patofme between running lights when I did it. by myself.

I turned with the two horses him being dragged and me not being a bull out of, and the necessary trailer to I was planning on leaving him in the corral for the day and that evening I would try to con a couple of the other cowboys into helping to haul the whole works home. able to do a thing about it, as, simultane- see much of the problem solved for me. me get him into an alley or behind a gate so that I, and anyone helping me, might live through pulling that cholla off of him. It was not We arrived, set up, cinched up and ously, the situation gained momentum There was my brother, walking in the arca very promising scenario to contemplate. ing circle his horse had made, picking up headed to the spring-fed creek in the with impressive speed. middle of the 600-acre pasture of rolling His horse burst into a run in a na- pieces of his tack. In a curious, bellering, I finished saddling my horse for the day and got a halter toand go catch Luke so aI could putand him inslobbering another penand so the cavvy couldcircle be around dust-infused hills, bad cross fences and exceptional no-second, thankfully dazed turned out.

When I finally spotted him in the milling bunch of horses, he was standing in a corner of the big corral with Matador, a as grass we rented. As we eased into a slow, mad Kyle stayed behind on the ground to him were our yearling heifers, acting bright young gelding, standing with him.

As I worked my way through the horses, I saw that Matador was doing something while he for ground-covering trot, visiting away about watch as his gelding did a beautiful arc- yearlings do. While this did nothing waswater standing but it wasn’t untillikeI got closer that I saw it was. which holethere, the bunch was most ing circle backwhat toward the barn, which we his mood, I immediately saw the humor ly at, I looked over and noticed something were only a couple hundred yards away in the situation, and the three bulls they AsMy Luke stood stock Matador wasbecarefully working thatimpressive nasty cholla withconsiderhis upper lip.had I watched as hebrought kept working sure graciously rightattoit,the corral from.

It wasatan sight odd. brother and still, his saddle were us.ground. Luke shook his head and ginning slip. to get it in his lip any moment. Slowly ing hehewas nearly breaking land speed he wastogoing worked it loose until ita finally dropped for to the It only took a few minutes to corral I began to say, calmly “Kyle, walked your saddle neck and Matador away. is record, with a saddle hanging from the slipping…,” when halfway through the back cinch between his back legs. Pieces and pull bulls that year, causing much thought and amoved fraction of the way through of tacktherained behind him, and as each teasing regarding my brother’s unique Luke never while Matador carefully worked cholla loose. of improving average theSeveral words everything gave way and he unlanded in the grass and my Luke brother’s things about the incident surprised me. First of all, Matador weren’tcolor buddies,way though they’d riddenour some miles intime a for the task.

The saddle required quite went up another notch. ceremoniously slammed into the ground. trailer together. Second, and most amazing, how did Matador know about the cholla and how did he know how to get it out? Why did a bit We would later learn his off-side cinch I wisely left my ticked off brother more time to repair, only to be sent back he even care? I could have seen him working one off of one of his own legs or something, but off of the neck of another horse? strap had rotted through, quite sudden- and went to remove what I expected to to the saddle maker 364 days later for a ly, from my vantage point. This caused be only a back cinch from his horse – you complete rebuild following another bull Matador wasreaction a very sharp horse, clever even, learn but I’d when never seen anything like that, I’ve heard it said that the Lord to offer assistance to nor the have hu- I since. incident… an immediate in his horse, Otis, works in mysterious ways, and indeed He does.

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Long Yearling or longevity

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BY SAVANNA SIMMONS

y husband Boe and I couldn’t look at one another in that vet clinic, couldn’t meet each other’s eyes over the speckled back of our beloved 11-year-old American Sugarbush Harlequin Draft, Chavez. We just received the news that he had bone spurs. Our greatest, most valuable ranch horse is crippled. Boe had been using him for ranch work less and less in the hope of preserving him for many years to come, and that hope had vanished. He had reserved Chavez as his top ranch rodeo pick, yet he still came up lame.

Is there something we could have done to prevent this happening? Started him at four instead of three? Perhaps.

Not used him for ranch work, where he put in long hours, risked stepping in prairie dog holes, or straining muscles and joints daily? Maybe.

Bone spurs are a result of arthritis and inflammation in a joint. It can be caused by either trauma, internally or externally, or OCD lesions due to improper development in joints. To name

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what caused Chavez’s damage was nearly impossible, in fact it could have been caused by many things versus one situation in particular.

Finding the balance in starting a horse young enough that he isn’t too big of a brute and unmannerly, but also mature enough to absorb information being provided in those tender first rides can be a concern.

Many horsemen across the states have varying opinions on when that first ride should

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Boe and Chavez were a recognizable pair in the ranch rodeo arena.

Factors to consider

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HERMANSON KIST All-Breed Fall Horse Sale

Fri, Sat, & Sun, September 20, 21, & 22 Kist Livestock Auction, Mandan, ND (Sale time is 8 am on Fri & Sat, 10:00 am on Sun)

No Tack Sale for the fall sale Auctioneers: Ernie Schanker & Blake Thompson Pedigree Readers: Robbie Rainer & Gary Lohman

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Cataloged are 1300 head consisting of the following:

700+ weanlings on Friday—mostly colored & performance bred (Largest colt sale in the World).

2006 daughter of Peeka Pep-Peptoboonsmal out of daughter of Docs Hickory This mare has earned over $12,000.00 cutting, 16 yr old stallion—son of Smart Chic Olena out of daughter of Haidas Little Pep.

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The following 4 mares are in foal to Double Loaded Gun, Earned over $74,000.00—son of Gunner:

14 yr old palomino mare by son of Hollywood Dun It out of Doc O Lena, 8 yr old palomino mare by son of Wimpys Little Step out of Boomernic bred mare, 14 yr old palomino mare—daughter of Mr Boomerjac out of daughter of Topsail Cody, 8 yr old sorrel mare by Shini Like Hail out of daughter of Hollywood Dun It,

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The following 5 mares are bred to Little Smart Spook---a dark palomino son of Smart Spook out of Hollywood Dunit mare.

15 yr sorrel mare out of Haidas Little Pep & Smart Little Lena, 12 yr old bay mare out of Reminic & Major Tylor Moore, 3 yr old mare out of Docs Hickory & Colonel Freckles, 11 yr old mare out of Dual Pep who is out of daughter of Peppy San Badger, 3 yr old red roan mare out of Peptoboonsmal & Freckles Playboy,

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5 mares—High Rolling Roanie, Drift Chip and War Concho bred—bred to blue roan stud of Cibecut Ike, out of a Rolling Roany, Joe Country bred mare. Stud also sells.

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Several partial dispersions of mares, Large selection of broke geldings, Lots of high bred mares and broke saddle horses, Large selection of yearlings and 2 yr old studs, mostly all colored, plus several listings of broke ponies.

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happen. For performance-horse types, they’re on them and tracking cattle and flags as long yearlings for mere minutes at a time, generally. For working cowboys in the Midwest or Southern regions, their mounts are typically going as two- and three-year-olds, and for the buckaroo, living in a region typified by large pastures, colts are often left until the ripe age of four or five to allow their bones to mature enough to take the impact of the long days required of them.

Waiting to start a colt doesn’t guarantee that an injury or fluke may not come along down the road, rendering a horse out of service temporarily or permanently crippled. For those who rely on horses as their livelihood, whether raising horses or cattle, a bloodline that has proven to last is as good as gold.

Proper care of horses can also affect the longevity and length of time they can perform.

A later start Lee Smith, a protégé of the late horseman Ray Hunt, a horseman herself, clinician, and rancher, waits until colts are four to start them. The rugged terrain at the New Mexico ranch where she and her husband raise rocks and a few blades of grass can wreak havoc on a young horse’s feet and bones. The three pastures that make up the 80,000-acre ranch also require long days and far miles.

She does her best starting colts in smaller circles until their muscles have adapted to a day’s work, but when they are ready, they’re off working. Lee also trains horses with a particular clientele in mind, a clientele which requires a horse that lasts.

“Because a lot of people I know need a horse that is a little farther along, we’re apt to keep them a little longer,” she said. “A lot of them are a little older, a little more settled, and more experienced before we sell them, but not teenagers.”

The greatest area in which Lee puts emphasis on care for her horses is shoeing them, especially in her rough region of the country. Essentially, you have no horse if you have no foot. While other regions can get by barefoot, she ensures her horses last from their shod feet up.

Years ago, Lee spent time in Texas riding cutting horses that were started as long yearlings and two-yearolds, and gradually, she began to notice that horses that were allowed to mature physically were also more responsive mentally and emotionally.

If Lee is starting a horse young, she tends to put a few short rides on here and there, then let the horse sit, and just because they look mature, she said, doesn’t mean that they are.

“I’m thinking of one particular year, those Cash Coyote Rio colts matured earlier, and seemed more mature, but they were still young, emotionally too.”

Dr. John Ismay of Sturgis Veterinary Hospital recommends checking horses’ legs daily to watch for conditions that could render a horse lame.

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A shift in thinking Several associations have taken note of this way of thinking and are considering moving—or have already moved—show dates to allow for more time for maturing. This doesn’t guarantee that horses will be started later, but it allows for that to be an option for those who feel it is beneficial for a lasting horse.

The American Paint Horse Association has created a Fall Championship Show, featuring such classes as weanling and yearling halter, yearling longe line, and two-year-old performance horse, as a supplement to its World Championship Show in June. Several three-yearold classes will be in the fall show as well.

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The idea was presented to National Cutting Horse Association that its futurity change from three- to fouryear-olds. NCHA will conduct research and consider pros and cons before making a decision.

In terms of ranch horses, some of the hardest working individuals in the country, it falls to the breeder or owner to decide when they begin working and how hard. Our herd contains around seven to eight using geldings, and a few young ones that have been lightly started or are waiting to be started, in addition to our two retirees. This ensures that each horse is really only used about once per week unless my husband has a few

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When using ranch horses, offering them a fair number of breaks and rest can extend their useful life.

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two-horse days. Adequate rest can ensure that a horse doesn’t wear out before his time.

“It’s better to rest a horse, but there were times it was hard to. It may take you a few days to do a job, and your horse may get tired,” Lee said. “There are some places (when working for hire) where they say you need to bring your own horses, but you can only bring four.

I wish I would have done that differently, rested my horses.”

long yearlings or young two-year-olds, though Kelli’s own preference is to start them far lighter than is generally required of performance horses.

“If I had it my way, I don’t think starting them as yearlings and then continuing training is the best. I would rather start them, put a few rides on them, then give them time off,” she said.

As Lee mentioned, there can be some ranch rules that make it hard to provide a horse just what he’s owed such as proper rest or the means to provide corrective shoeing or supplements, yet that doesn’t guarantee a horse won’t last the long haul, so to speak.

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Cutting horses tend to grow faster and mature earlier, Kelli said, than some bigger ranch horses and other types. While those horses may do a lot of growing from ages two to five, by age two or three, most cutting horses have already reached their full height. She favors Metallic Cat and Dual Rey bloodlines with strong stifles and good brains that can handle an early start, though that isn’t to say they will last into their teens or 20s.

Kelli Neubert and her husband Luke start primarily cutting and some reined cowhorse colts from May through October before sending them on to other trainers who will ready them for futurities. The pressures of competition dictate an earlier starting date, generally as

“A lot do require maintenance. I don’t know if it’s the best timeline for them,” she said of cutting and performance horses in general. “I think if they hadn’t been on a performance timeline, they would probably be a solid, stronger horse with less maintenance.”

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Keeping shoes on horses in rough country with hard or rocky conditions, or horses that have soft feet, can aid in keeping them sound.

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Luke and Kelli owned a son of Smooth as a Cat that was a small three-year-old and showing signs of lameness. The vet told them that he wasn’t crippled, and they could patch him up enough to go show him, but it would result in him becoming a pasture ornament by the time he was five. They chose to give him rest instead, and it resulted in a horse that should be sound for a long time.

Kelli was left with questions when her homeraised English-bred pony wasn’t taking well to being started. She was concerned about physical or mental illness, but her vet said it was going to take a while to get there. “He said, ‘Horses aren’t usually ready to handle much until they’re four or five,” she said, so she opted to work with her pony only occasionally and give plenty of time off. Kelli witnessed far better results when she rode her ponies only short period of times, sometimes multiple times per day.

Most importantly, Dr. Ismay recommends common sense. If a horse is using more calories working than he is consuming, give him time off and more calories through supplemental grains.

“Give grain and supplements at the same time every day. If you get up and wrangle horses at six and feed them grain at seven, then always do that time. If you grain in the evening, do that at the same time,” he said. “Obviously, check legs every day for swelling, lameness, and anything that could be the start of arthritis or could lead to a disease.”

Check, please!

Vet, that is.

A great deal to do with longevity in a horse, according to Dr. John Ismay, of Sturgis Veterinary Hospital in South Dakota, is genetics, though regular veterinary care can definitely help preserve a horse’s usefulness. Having an annual checkup when administering vaccinations allows a vet to catch conditions that can shortens a horse’s life.

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The biggest care Dr. Ismay encourages is annual dental care from the age of two and having check-ups prior to two for teeth that may be coming in improperly.

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“Teeth are being pushed out and worn off as they chew, not up and down, but sideways, for the rest of a horse’s life,” he said. “If there is a soft tooth, the one that is normal, or harder, wears into that, which causes a long tooth. It doesn’t grow long, it just doesn’t wear off.”

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Lena's Bar

BY DEANNA NELSON-LICKING

Easy Jet, the horse who redefined the definition of a champion racing Quarter Horse, was the last colt foaled by Lena’s Bar.

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he had perfect conformation, and according to Pat Thompson who worked for her owner Walter Merrick, she was as good a Quarter Horse mare as he had ever seen or handled,” said John Johnson, South Dakota based AQHA pedigree expert.

Lena’s Bar was a daughter of Three Bars (TB) by Percentage, out of the mare Lena Valenti by Gray Dream and a granddaughter of Percentage. The chestnut filly was born in 1954. She was bred and owned her entire life by legendary horseman and American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame member Walter Merrick. Merrick owned the 14 Ranch north of Crawford, Oklahoma. The ranch was purchased with the proceeds of the first registered Quarter Horse sale ever held, put on by Merrick and Leonard Milligan in 1945.

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thought enough of the mare’s speed that he bought her in 1951. He continued racing her, and she won her racing Register of Merit in August of 1951 after winning a 440-yard sprint in Enid, Oklahoma. In 1952 Merrick leased the Thoroughbred stud Three Bars from Sidney Vail of Tucson, Arizona, to put a little “hybrid vigor” into his breeding program. This breeding deal produced horses such as Lena’s Bar, Easy Jet, Jet Smooth, Bob’s Folly and Byou Bird to name a few. It was a two-year lease but Vail changed his mind after the first year and took the stud home.

Merrick had bred Lena Valenti to Three Bars while the stud was there, but she never settled. Determined to make the cross happen, Merrick hauled the mare to Arizona and Lena’s Bar was foaled in March of 1954.

New Mexico was the only state that allowed Thoroughbreds to compete in regular Quarter Horse races during the 1950s. However, Thoroughbreds were not allowed to participate in the Quarter Horse racing futurities for two-year-olds.

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A Thoroughbred that changed the Quarter Horse industry Jet Deck, the sire of Lena’s Bar’s most successful sons.

career until she was three in 1957, starting eight times and winning four.

“She was strong-minded when they started her; if she decided to buck you off, she would. Very set in her ways,” Johnson said, remembering what Pat Thompson had told him. “Thoroughbred horses weren’t always accepted by others in the AQHA, and they struggled to get accepted.”

On July 26, 1959, Lena’s Bar won the 400yard Bright Eyes Stakes at Ruidoso Downs and three weeks later took the 400-yard Miller Motel Allowance at the same track.

She outran world champion racing horses Go Man Go, Vanetta Dee, Tidy Too, Miss Louton, Vandy’s Flash and Double Bid. Lena’s Bar also won the Buttons and Bows Stakes and the C.L. Maddon’s Bright Eyes Handicap both at Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1958. By the end of her career, she started 76 races in five years against Quarter Horses, garnering 24 wins and earned $28,311. She placed second eighteen times and was third ten times, accumulating 67 racing points with the AQHA

and achieving a AAA speed rating. Her sister, Little Lena’s Bar set four world records at four different distances.

Merrick retired the mare completely sound from the track and she started her brood mare career in 1962. She produced only five foals-- studs Jet Smooth, Easy Jet, Double Dancer, and mares Delta Ann and Mayflower Ann; each of them won races and earned Registers of Merit on the track, earning $557,199. All five had speed indexes of 90-plus, with four of them over 100. The mare’s two most successful offspring resulted from crossing her on Jet Deck, a racing world champion who was the first Quarter Horse to earn more than $200,000 on the straightaways. The first colt, Jet Smooth became successful on the track, in the show arena and as a breeding stallion. Among his offspring are 348 racing Register of Merit earners, 18 performance Register of Merit earners and 23 halter point earners. They have earned $2,546,842 on the track and accumulated 1,047.5 points in the performance arena.

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Lena’s Bar winning the Miller Motel Allowance in 1959 in Ruidoso Downs, Ruidoso, New Mexico.

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One of Lena’s Bar wins at Ruidoso Downs in 1957, she ran 400 yards in 21.9 seconds.

Easy Jet, her last and most foal, redefined what it was to be a champion racing Quarter Horse. He earned more than $445,000 on the track and had a prolific breeding career. He was the racing world champion as a two-yearold; he raced 38 times in two years and won 26 times.

His first foals hit the ground in 1971 and by 1973 he was on the AQHA leading sires list. He is the all-time brood mare sire and the first All-American Winner to sire an All-American Winner.

“She passed her incredible soundness onto her babies. She was as structurally correct as a horse could be,” Johnson said.

Following the birth of Easy Jet in 1967 Lena’s Bar developed bladder disease. No expense was spared, but after a 9-month battle she died in 1968 at the age of 14.

Her incredible legacy lives on; she was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2003, ten years after the induction of her son Easy Jet. Her success has gone beyond the track--the progeny of Lena’s Bar are still sought after for performance horses, with to date AQHA earnings of over $21,000,000 with 4,330 offspring averaging almost $5,000 each, competing in all events from barrel racing to cutting.

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Custom Saddle. Custom Experience.

The saddle is an iconic symbol of the west. At times, its value and importance can be underestimated. A saddle can be more than just a piece of equipment you throw on your horse every day. It can be the vital tool that not only gets you from point A to point B, but also helps you reach your goals and give the competitive edge you need.

Like anything else, not all saddles are created equal. Have you ever thought about where your saddle was made or the quality of materials it’s made from?

Todd Bergen in a Martin Performance Saddle

Martin Saddlery is a custom saddle shop located in Texas. Martin makes saddles for a variety of disciplines from the show ring to the rodeo arena, all made in the USA. The process of each custom saddle begins with a single piece of South Dakota pine formed into their Axis tree. From there, it is covered in the highest quality Hermann Oak Leather to be hand tooled by an artisan craftsman to be a completed esthetic masterpiece. Alongside premiere craftsmanship, Martin utilizes professionals in each discipline to test and help improve each model of saddle each year, always striving to create the best finished product.

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Designed for cowhorse competitions, the Performance saddle is used and endorsed by NRHA and NRCHA Champion Todd Bergen along with many other cowhorse and reining professionals. The saddle features a seat pocket that positions the rider, keeping the rider balanced and stable even during the toughest runs. It accommodates necessary movements by allowing the rider to sit up in the turnarounds or stay deep in the seat for rundowns and stops.

“When we were testing and riding the saddle, we had a goal of how we wanted the tree and seat to fit the rider and horse, and we accomplished just that. The seat puts you where you need to be, but with unsurpassed freedom. The fenders hang at the right angle to put my legs and feet in ideal placement.”-Todd Bergen, $2M NRCHA Rider & $2M NRHA Rider.

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The concept of the Custom Roper evolved from working with our team roping professionals and adjusting the trees and design to fit their specific needs to compete at the highest level. The roper is built from the tree up, with over 100 possible combinations. The tree, horn, swell, ground seat, and cantle are all options to choose to create a saddle that fits individualized riding styles and maximizes performance and comfort.

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Team roping professionals such as Joseph Harrison, Travis Graves, Billy Jack Saebens, and Luke Brown compete in the Martin Custom Roper.

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Joseph Harrison in a Custom Martin Roper

Breakaway Roper

It’s the dawn of a new age in the women’s sport of breakaway with opportunities and new horizons around every corner. 18X WPRA World Champion Roper, Jackie Crawford, has tested and rode a custom Breakaway roping saddle for several years, understanding the advantage it gives herself and her horse.

Much like the Custom Team Roper, the Breakaway saddle is made with customizable options from the tree up including the same elements; the tree, horn, swell, ground seat, and cantle.

Arguably the fastest event in rodeo, often with the course being completed in under 2.5 seconds, the importance of position and getting the quicker shot in the breakaway can be the difference between placing or not placing. The Breakaway saddle is made with the intentions to giving the rider and horse the stark advantage needed in the fast event through quality and consistency.

Barrel Saddles

In the barrel saddle category, Martin Saddlery has worked tirelessly to complete a full line of barrel saddles fitting the exact needs of barrel racers and barrel horses alike. Six different saddles are available in the barrel racing category; the Crown C, Stingray, FX3, BTR, Guardian, and the Fearless. As with every other discipline’s saddles, Martin Saddlery has teamed up with iconic industry professionals at the likes of Sherry Cervi, Lisa Lockhart, and Jolene Montgomery (to name a few) to test, improve, and perfect the saddles to best fit the modern barrel racer and barrel horse. The Martin team travels to many of the large events across the nation helping with saddle fits and test rides with the goal of helping barrel racers find their fit to help to help them be their most confident self and best perform with their equine partner in the arena.

Sherry Cervi in a Martin Crown C

Jackie Crawford in a Custom Breakaway Roper

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ROBERTS PERFORMANCE HORSES The right connections built rope horse foundation

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ith rope horses in six states, Rodger Roberts is pretty comfortable with how his breeding program is going.

About 11 years ago, looking forward to retiring from the uranium mine and construction work near Crawford, Nebraska, Roberts started raising colts.

He chose genetics he was familiar with, from successful horse programs in the Panhandle of Nebraska—Bob Jordan and Arleigh Deiness. The last stud colts the two horsemen kept are two of the three studs in Roberts’ pasture now. Conrad Cash, a 2001 bay stud that’s double-bred Dash for Cash, is his senor stud. Frosty Cadillac, a palomino, was foaled in 2007 and goes back to Frosty Feature and Jackie Bee. Rage Bar Jack, a bay, is 13 years old and out of Frosty Feature, with Two Eyed Jack on the top and bottom.

“I just started studying pedigrees,” Roberts said. “It’s something I’ve always been interested in. I didn’t really have a plan our first breeding season. I’ve been around horses all my life. I’d never been around rope horses, but it’s kind of developed into that,” Roberts says.

Mikel Welling has been starting colts for Roberts since the beginning, and a couple years into their partnership Welling called and said he thought one of Roberts’ grade mares would make a good calf horse.

“I’d never ridden calf horses, but I knew a guy who did—Paul Tierney. I called information and got his number and gave him a call,” Roberts said.

Paul Tierney had plenty of horses to ride already, but suggested his son, Jess, take a look at the mare. Jess agreed to take a look at the mare, named Echo, and Roberts hauled her to his place.

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“On the way there we’d decided this was going to be a waste of time. To make a long story short, he agreed to ride the mare and called before I made it back home. He said, ‘I’ve been riding your mare. I don’t know who starts your horses, but this is a nice mare.’”

After a few months in the arena, they sold Echo to a then-14-year-old kid from Montana named Haven Meged.

This year Meged won the college national championship in calf roping and is working toward the WNFR and Rookie of the Year.

“She was an awesome horse,” Meged said. “She had a big motor and took a while to get rode down.”

Meged had Echo for three years and rode her to a state championship in the calf roping, but between the state finals and the national finals, Echo got a puncture wound in the pasture and died 30 minutes later of a blood clot.

“It was kind of tough on us and Haven both when she died,” Roberts said.

“She was just getting to where she was solid enough to take to the rodeos. She was just getting to where she was really, really good,” Meged said.

Rodger Roberts enjoys sharing his horses with his grandkids, like granddaughter Addie.

Meged did get a colt, now six years old, out of Echo, and that colt is still on the ranch. “We ranch on him and use him at the salebarn. My little brother ropes off him. They have really good horses and I’d darn sure use their program,” Meged said.

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Jess Tierney, now a rodeo coach at Western Oklahoma State College, has been riding Roberts’ horses for about 10 years. He would take them for a while as yearlings, then as twos, threes, fours and fives, then sell them. They sold some through Paul Tierney’s sale, some privately.

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nstruc h Mou “The customers had a good time with them,” Tierney said. “Pretty much everything we had has gone on to be a rope horse. I’ve seen those horses in high school and college rodeos. Several years after we rode them I’m still seeing them in the arenas.”

Tierney said the horses he’s ridden have been pretty versatile, and that Roberts tries to make sure the customers are satisfied.

“The Roberts family, they’re good about knowing their horses, taking good care of them. They know their horses well and are more interested in making sure it’s the right fit for the buyer, than just selling horses. They’re good people and they love what they’ve put together. They’re real good to deal with.”

Brenda Roberts, Rodger’s wife, said, “Jess Tierney has been a great trainer for us. He trains the horses to their best potential. The horses are always confident and like what they’re doing when he has finished training them.”

Roberts says he knows more about horses than he does about marketing, which is why he counts on Welling and the Tierneys to help him get his horses to the right customers. “I’ve got the product, but I’m not much of a marketer,” he says.

He’s sold horses through the horse sale at the Black Hills Stock Show, Tierneys’ sale and this year has several consigned to the Legend Buttes Catalog Horse sale at Crawford Livestock Market. “I’ve always had a good eye for horses—I think. I could pick out the best ones at a sale, not that I could afford them. “ There’s always a market for good horses, and that’s what Roberts is striving for. With Dash for Cash, Colonel Freckles and Frenchmans Guy on their papers, his horses have the speed and athleticism he’s looking for, but he knows there’s more to it than that.

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“We breed for disposition first and foremost, because nobody wants a bronc anymore. It used to be kind of a badge of honor if you had a bad one that only a few guys could ride. But those guys are old now,” he says.

Roberts was reminded recently that life is pretty precarious, since his doctor banned him from riding horses following brain surgery, which removed a baseball-sized benign tumor. “I’d like to get back to it, but I’m on blood thinners and I bruise real easily and I can’t afford to get cut.”

Roberts credits God with guiding the decisions that got him to where he is today, and for seeing him safely through brain surgery.

“Thank God for kidney stones,” he said. “I originally went in for a checkup and I was losing my words.

I couldn’t complete a statement. I just figured it was because of the pain medication, but my doctor knew Truman and Addie Roberts like to spend time with the horses when they visit their grandparents.

Brenda Roberts makes sure the babies get plenty of love and attention.

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From Left: Three generations of the Roberts family– Rodger, Truman and Jess, head out horseback.

something else was going on. I feel very, very blessed. I went from taking steps that were only six inches long less than six months ago to working full days.

I feel very, very blessed. There are no lasting effects.

None.”

He said his handwriting is back to normal, he sleeps better and his blood pressure is 25 points lower than it was before the surgery.

“When you’ve got your health you’ve got everything you need. With health comes opportunity,” he said.

Now that he has his health back, he’s planning to take the opportunity to keep raising good horses.

“Rodger loves his horses,” Brenda said. “I love them too. It’s hard to see them sold or grow old. Rodger has worked really hard to raise good horses.”

Truman Roberts gets to spend time with Grandpa's horses when he visits them in Nebraska.

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Tammy Pate is the founder of Art of the Cowgirl, an event she created to provide fellowships to up-and-coming artists and forge connections within the industry.

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Art of the Cowgirl founder Tammy Pate creates event to uplift women, makers

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alking into the Corona Ranch, home to the inaugural Art of the Cowgirl event, fragrant flowers stand out against the rugged Arizona rock walls. The dirt and horsehair of the arena is paired with fine art and photography. Trinity Seely’s voice drifts over the crowd, lilting about snaffle colts and wildflowers, a life the women milling around know well—or would like to. Women with calloused hands stroke handpainted silk scarves, examine the flower petals on sterling silver earrings and compare handmade mohair cinches.

Everything about Art of the Cowgirl lends an air of authentic, genuine, and high-quality.

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2019 Fellowships Saddlemaking with Nancy Martini, awarded to Toni Kay Tolle

Fine art with Jan Mapes, awarded to Kinsey Artfitch

Horsemanship with Lee Smith, awarded to Alicia Adamson

Silversmithing with Amy Raymond, yet to be awarded

Bootmaking with Kelli Martin, awarded to Dallas Gordon

Rawhide braiding with Teresa Black, yet to be awarded

Photography with Constance Jaeggi, awarded to Lauren Summers The event is founder Tammy Pate’s way of giving back to an industry which she feels has given herself and husband, clinician Curt Pate, so much in their lives.

“For some reason, we’ve been so blessed,” Tammy said. “We’ve been trying to figure out a way to give back, and Curt’s whole career, except the past 15 years, was all horse expos before he went to cows.”

While the event itself is unique in the industry and an experience unto its own, it acts as a vehicle to provide fellowship opportunities to upand-coming artists, photographers, and makers.

Nancy Martini donated a handmade saddle to the auction at Art of the Cowgirl to raise funds for fellowships.

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The idea, Tammy said, is to preserve trades and traditions within the cowgirl community of makers. Five fellowships have been provided with the funds garnered through the February event through an auction of donated items, the Elite Ranch Horse Sale, clinics Tammy has hosted, and other avenues.

“The fellowship has been the brain child behind the whole event; that’s been her dream for years,” Tammy’s daughter Mesa Pate said of her mom.

“It’s something the industry has needed, and it’s not just about women but our families, our history, and these women who have been the silent push behind it. We’re probably just at the tip of

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Six of the master makers are pictured, from left, photographer Constance Jaeggi, fine artist Jan Mapes, saddle maker Nancy Martini, boot maker Kelli Martin, silversmith Amy Raymond, and rawhide braider Teresa Black.

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the iceberg for what this event can do for up-and-coming emerging artists and horsewomen. The more people understand what it is, there’s no telling where the funds could come from, where they could go, and how many people could be reached through this fellowship program.”

Lauren Summers, a cowgirl at a guest ranch in Wyoming, was awarded a photography fellowship with Constance Jaeggi. She heard about the fellowship program from Tammy herself when she was hosting a clinic at the ranch. Summers didn’t attend the event, but will be in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2020 to share her experience with Jaeggi, the master photographer. She was fairly convinced she wouldn’t be awarded the fellowship because she doesn’t have a Western background.

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“I am actually from the Chicago area. Photography has been a hobby of mine for a while now, and I thought I might as well give it a try. I hope my work [at the guest ranch] will fill in gaps for not having grown up here,” she said.

Kinsey Artfitch, who received a fellowship in fine art with Jan Mapes, was able to attend Art of the Cowgirl with her family in tow, and she spoke with the master fine artist while there, though Artfitch didn’t even tell Mapes her name. She didn’t think it was important at the time, though now, she’ll be spending a week with her, expanding her art skills.

“It’s interesting how the Lord brought this about.

When I heard Jan speak, I could tell we were kindred

spirits in our Christian life. We had a five-minute conversation, and I walked away thinking it was just a blessing to me,” she said.

Artfitch is one in a family of artists, though until lately she wanted nothing to do with art, instead choosing to focus her life on horses. Over the past year, the Lord has changed her heart, she said, and she has had a “massive, overwhelming desire and passion to put it on paper.”

“Justine Munns had this great mare, Style, that was the epitome of the horse I wanted there. I ended up buying her; I didn’t plan that, it just happened,” Mesa said. “I was pretty picky about who came, but I didn’t really have to be. Everyone understood what we were trying to do to fit the feel of the sale and the whole event.”

Art of the Cowgirl will return to Corona Ranch in Phoenix Jan. 24 to 26, 2020.

Luke and Kelli Neubert contributed to the fellowships through the sale of their horse Ol’ Roanie at the Elite Ranch Horse Sale organized by Mesa.

A portion of the $25,000 sale price went into the fellowship fund. The Neuberts also participated in colt-starting demonstrations. Jaeggi donated two colts, which they started during the demonstrations, then auctioned in the sale.

“It’s fun when you’re part of something for the first year.

You don’t really know that to expect,” Kelli said. “I commend Mesa and Tammy and all those girls for tying different elements of the cowgirl lifestyle, different facets of the art, and making it one fluid event, drawing people from all different stuff, performance horse people, buckaroos, and enthusiasts.”

In setting up the horse sale, Mesa chose a specific type of horse, one trained by a woman or couples that fits the bill of a good ranch horse. She even found a mare to purchase at the sale.

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Spa Day

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With his diaper in place a horse is led up the ramp by Dr Lynn Stadheim.

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brand new equine spa is making the rounds of horse events in the Northern Plains. Lynn Stadheim, a long-time veterinarian in the area, and his wife, Delyssa, have set up a portable hydrotherapy cold water equine spa and are beginning to book vendor space at some of the larger horse events in the tristate region. The South Dakota High School Rodeo Finals was their first large event and the spa was kept busy.

The spa is a vital treatment for reducing inflammation in lower leg injuries and accelerating the body’s natural healing processes, Stadheim said. The water is kept between 35 and 37 degrees and aerated through jets to speed and enhance the healing process. Epsom salts and Black Sea salt are added to the water, acting as a poultice, drawing out the infection and creating a cooling effect. The salt concentration is double that found in sea water. The aeration acts like a massage, encouraging circulation and healing. Due to the salt the water is a pale green, like sea water and smells fresh. The spa has three filters and circulates the water all the time along with gauges

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Lynn Stadheim holding the halter rope of a horse in the spa. Once the treatment is completed the front opens for the horse to walk out.

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that monitor when the water needs to be changed or filters cleaned. The micro-filtration system, along with the heavy salt concentration, kills off any bacteria, Stadheim said.

While he knows the spa’s capabilities, Dr. Stadheim also knows its limitations. “The spa is not a cure. Spas offer temporary relief. The body’s response to an injury overdoes it, with the heat and swelling, and the spa can keep that in check. The salt concentration can keep proud-flesh down and help heal surface lacerations.”

According to “The Science Behind the Therapy” on equinespa.com and Dr. Stadheim, hydrotherapy is much more effective than cold hosing since the temperature is consistent, along with the salt concentration, pressure and aeration. Another advantage is treating all four legs at the same time. The temperature is perfect to remove heat and swelling and increases the circulation of the injured area. The treatment temperature alone induces a massive rush of blood and circulation which

otherwise would not be present. The water is just above the knees and hocks which applies pressure and helps support the injured area. Each treatment lasts about 15 minutes and costs $50. After an injury the sooner treatment can be started the better for faster healing.

Black Hills Equine Spa posted on Facebook in March a sample list of what the spa can be used to treat: Abscesses, arthritic pain, bruising, hoof growth, hoof injury, infections and wounds to the lower limbs, joint problems, lacerations, laminitis, post-operative complications, pre- and post-hock injections, skin infections, splints and certain fractures, sprains, strains, swelling, sore shins, tendon and ligament injuries, wind galls and wind puffs and as a preventive measure to reduce the risk of injury before and after strenuous activities.

“Our target markets are performance horses, cutters, reiners, barrel racers and calf ropers. Older horses can have their careers extended by making them more comfortable without needles and oral pain relievers,”

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The spa trailer is set up and ready for use. The horses enter and exit via ramps and the side window gives a full view of the spa.

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Stadheim said. “We help the young and the old, futurity horses that have been pushed and developed issues. Some things will improve, the spa will alleviate issues for a limited amount of time.”

“At first the horses are nervous of course, we have to sedate them mildly, but when we get it cranked up and the water levels up, they relax. After a few treatments the horses are excited to see it again. They like it.”

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The spa is completely portable.

Horses used to a slant load trailer walk in with no problems. They enter the spa via a ramp at the rear of the trailer and exit through a side door. The entire surface is non-slip for added safety. The horses are washed off before entering the spa and wear a diaper of sorts to avoid contaminating the water. The required diaper is what most of the horses have the biggest issue with.

The water is pumped in and aerated through jets, then pumped out of the spa into a holding tank. The water can be reused hundreds of times.

“What we’re doing isn’t new, just the way we’re doing it is. It’s a big step above boots and such that are

for icing injuries. We can do all four feet at once and control it,” Stadheim said. “Equine spas have been used on the East Coast for years for racing, jumping and dressage horses. There are some spas in the south but we are the only one in our area.”

When not on the road or set up at horse events, the Stadheims offer treatments and boarding at their ranch near Belle Fourche, South Dakota.

Owners are able to leave injured horses so they can have twice daily spa treatments. “We have even seen a nice response with two older navicular horses; the owners are able to get three to five days use out of them after treatment,” Stadheim said.

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While they call South Dakota home, the Stadheims plan to put some miles on the trailer when the weather gets cold.

“I’ve been going to Arizona for the past five years and that has really opened my eyes to the opportunities available in the south. In our area, five months is the max for events, so that is another reason for having it mobile,” Stadheim said.

“There are a massive amount of horses in Arizona for the winter. If you want to work on horses, that is where you need to go.”

Horse owners are finding out the benefits of spa treatments, especially to loosen a horse up after a long trailer ride. When a horse feels good, they perform better and in timed events a fraction of a second faster can make all the difference in the world.

Stadheim was a veterinarian at multiple sale barns for 41 years but has retired from that side of his practice. He still has his rural clients, does equine dentals and now operates the spa. “I love working on horses,” he said.

The Black Hills Equine Spa can be found on Facebook where they will be posting updates and locations, or Dr. Stadheim can be reached at (605) 430-1543. Look for them at large horse events in the region, they are happy to answer questions and show the spa to visitors.

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Horses and Heat

BY HEATHER SMITH THOMAS

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he thermometer climbs toward triple digits. The breeze is as listless as the dog lying in the shade. But there’s work to be done and you’re counting on your equine partner to help you out. A little care and common sense can make sure your horse stays healthy in the heat.

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According to Dr. Tia Nelson, a veterinarian in Helena, Montana, fatigue and dehydration are the most common hot-weather issues affecting horses. The severity varies, but should be taken seriously to avoid severe or longterm repercussions, such as muscle or kidney damage.

“I saw a horse last year that was ridden on an endurance ride in South Dakota and in trouble,” Nelson said.

“He was an older horse and ridden too hard. It was hot.

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He didn’t have water and became dehydrated. He died of kidney disease six months later, following damage he suffered due to severe dehydration.”

In most cases, heat can be countered by providing plenty of fluids throughout the day, resting frequently in the heat of the day and making sure fluid balances are restored promptly following exertion.

A horse doesn’t necessarily have to be working hard to suffer from heat stress. Changing climates when traveling, or even riding in the trailer can cause a horse to overheat.

Dr. Liz Boos, a veterinarian from Belle Fourche, South Dakota, said, “Horses from dry climates like western South Dakota, going to High School Rodeo finals in Ohio in summer, for instance, tend to become dehydrated

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Letting horses rest is even more important when the heat and/ or humidity are high.

Continuous use in high heat can lead to heat stress, dehydration and other complications.

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The humidity needs to be a consideration when deciding whether it’s too hot to work your horse. A general rule is that if you add the relative humidity to the temperature and it tallies up to more than 150, be extra careful if you have to work your horse.

“Put yourself in the horse’s position when riding or hauling. Would you be able to work that hard or travel that long in the heat without a drink? Putting a good sweat on a horse when working cattle or running barrels won’t hurt him, but at some point you need to slow down or stop.” If the horse is not in good shape yet, be careful not to overdo it.

Lisa Lockhart, professional barrel racer from Oelrichs, South Dakota, suggests using your own comfort as a guide for what your horse is feeling.

Lockhart travels extensively with her horses and said it’s vital to take heat into consideration when trailering during the summer.

because it’s humid (and they are sweating more) and they don’t always want to drink.”

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“In a trailer, make sure there’s adequate air flow. A breeze and moving air helps cool the horse. Some people don’t realize how hot it can get inside a trailer, especially when it’s not moving. Don’t leave horses in a trailer when it’s stopped; it’s like an oven inside that tin can,” Lockhart says.

Traveling at night, when it’s cooler, can reduce the stress on a horse. “You don’t want a hot, stressed horse when you arrive at your destination, just before you compete in your event. The new trailers today are more enclosed and there’s not enough air circulation,” Boos says.

Keep in mind that if you tie a horse to the trailer in the shade in the morning, it may not still be in the shade in the afternoon, and the heat is intensified by the reflection of the trailer. Lockhart also suggests bringing a fan for your horse if you’re stalling it where it’s hot and humid.

“Be familiar with what that horse does when he’s working hard,” says Nelson. “Then you can recognize subtle signs of fatigue and stress before the horse gets wobbly and in trouble. It’s important to pay attention.”

If you’re concerned about your horse on a hot day, monitoring a few vital signs can give you a pretty good idea of whether your horse is in trouble or just managing the heat.

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Boos said popular wisdom once said that horses shouldn’t be allowed to eat or drink while they were working because it taught bad habits, or a hot horse would founder if allowed to drink cold water.

“But the horse needs to eat and drink if he’s working hard all day,” she said. Boos has been the veterinarian on several endurance rides, and learned a lot by observing how they’re used and how they are treated and recover. Endurance horses are expected to perform longer and under worse conditions than many other disciplines, but since they’re allowed to eat and drink throughout the day, they do fine, she said.

As Lockhart said, it all comes down to common sense and paying attention to your horse. Riders should be in tune with their horses enough to know when to slow down or stop if a horse starts to get tired and dehydrated.

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Heart rate is an indication of stress and knowing the resting heart rate of your horse can give you a comparison when it’s working hard. The average resting heart rate of a healthy horse is 40 beats per minute, but will vary between horses, and depending on the horse’s level of fitness; soft horses have higher pulse rates.

When you’re working a horse and rest it for ten minutes the pulse rate should drop to around 50 to 60 beats per minute, Nelson said. If it doesn’t, the horse needs a longer rest and is being pushed too hard.

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A pinch test can check for dehydration. Pull out a pinch of skin from the horse’s neck, shoulder or upper eyelid, and see how long it takes to spring back into place. If it stays tented a few seconds, the horse is somewhat dehydrated. If it takes more than a few seconds to sink back into place, the horse is very dehydrated.

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If those bubble-gum pink membranes become dark or pale, this is a bad sign. You can also check capillary refill time by pressing the gum with thumb or finger (pressing blood out of that area) then seeing how long it takes for that pale spot to become normal color. If blood rushes back immediately, the horse is not dehydrated, but if it takes two seconds or more, he’s short on fluid. The longer that spot stays white and bloodless, the more dehydrated he is.

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Respiration rate should also be monitored when using a horse in the heat. Normal respiration rate is between eight and 12 breaths per minute. Working hard in hot weather can raise that rate as high as 120 breaths per minute, but should drop toward normal when he stops to rest for 10 minutes. If it doesn’t drop in 10 minutes he needs more time to rest, Nelson said.

Body temperature is also something to keep an eye on. Normal body temperature for a horse is 99 to 100.5 degrees, rising up to 103 while working in the heat. A temperature of 104 degrees while working is on the verge of too hot. Working hard can result in fluid loss, and if the horse gets dehydrated and unable to sweat it can’t cool itself and the body temperature can rise to dangerous levels.

If a horse is showing signs of heat stress or dehydration, the first step is to slow down and give the horse a chance to cool off. Providing plenty of cool, clean water is the best way to combat dehydration. Boos encourages owners to use electrolytes to replace minerals, such as sodium and potassium, that are lost when a horse sweats. She emphasizes, however, that electrolytes and salt have to be accompanied by plenty of water. If the horse isn’t drinking enough and you supplement electrolytes, it will pull fluid from the gut, making the dehydration worse.

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t’s not hard to figure out when your horse is hurting. Even if the horse isn’t noticeably lame, if they’re just not doing their job as well as you know they can, a joint problem is a prime suspect.

The causes of joint injuries are as varied as the horses they happen to—young ones, old ones, performance horses and pasture pets. But the go-totreatment for many joint problems is the same— joint injections.

Joe Stricklin, DVM, has been focusing exclusively on equine lameness and dentistry for the last 12 of his 40 years as an equine veterinarian. He sees joint injections as a necessary and valuable practice, when done correctly and in the right context.

“The goal is to make that horse 100 percent sound,” he said. In some cases, that takes just one injection. In other cases, it may require injecting several joints, or several times. In worst-case scenarios it’s a routine requirement.

“As the horse gets older, sometimes it’s like peeling an onion,” Stricklin said. “There may be multiple joints that are sore. You may inject a couple joints and they’ll start showing other joints that are sore. I would say that at least 95 percent of the time we can get those horses back to 100 percent sound.

The question is how long will they last? Are there arthritic problems starting to occur that will decrease the effectiveness?”

Poor ground conditions can contribute to, or even cause, joint pain, and sometimes it’s a specific injury or stress.

Stricklin expects to see certain types of pain in horses of certain disciplines. “A lot of times the jerks a heel horse takes makes their front fetlocks get sore,” he said. “Barrel horses that are turning hard on uneven ground, it’s the fetlock, hocks and stifles that get sore. In jumping horses it's often the

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fetlocks that get sore.” Many blame the hocks and stifles when there are many other reasons like fetlocks or sacroiliac strains in all disciplines.

In the meantime, his concern is that the horse will need an injection about the time the stakes are high and he really needs the horse to be sound.

While some horses have chronic joint pain, just like people, sometimes they come out of it and are sound again. “They can get over it,” Stricklin says. “A lot of people think that once you inject a joint they always have to be injected. That’s not necessarily true. If a horse just strains something that causes the soreness they may never have to be injected again.”

Stricklin decides if joint injections are necessary based on several factors, including the degree of lameness, swelling and how soon they need to get back to work. X-rays aren’t always necessary, but if he’s dealing with the coffin joint or the fetlock joint, he wants to see the angles of the feet. Sometimes joint relief might start with how the feet are trimmed, since long toes and low heels can cause a lot of pain.

But some horses, especially horses that are starting to get worn out, have to be injected repeatedly. The frequency will vary according to the problem in the joint, which joint it is, how hard the horse is ridden, the difficulty of the job, and the ground conditions. “Once they start getting injected you may need to do some other things, like oral, IV or intramuscular products to decrease the frequency of joint injections and to keep the inflammation down in those joints,” Stricklin says.

Jess Tierney, a horse trainer and rodeo coach at Western Oklahoma State College, said he’s dealt with joint injections, but sees the chronic need for them as a reason to find a new horse.

“I like them. You need them. But if you need them I don’t want them (the horse),” he says.

“You have to really start paying attention to it once you need it. Until you figure out when they need it and how often, it’s tricky,” he says. “You have to spend about a year with it until you know when that horse is going to need it.”

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Stricklin says the cost varies from one clinic to another, but probably ranges from $100 to $175 per joint.

He doesn’t always recommend injections when a horse is suffering from joint pain. He takes into consideration the severity of the lameness and how fast the horse needs to get back to its job. “I give people options.

Do they want to try a less aggressive approach? Rest can sometimes work. Poultices, cold therapy on the legs. It may mean anti-inflammatory products along with oral joint products to try to relieve that inflammation. I leave it up to how fast people need the animal back at work. In some cases I highly recommend injections. Then there are times when we can get good results not going into the joint.”

There aren’t many complications or side effects of joint injections. As with any situation where the skin is broken, an infection can occur, but is very rare when injections are done by experienced, qualified vets, Stricklin said. Twice in his 40 years of practice he’s seen horses that had an allergic-type reaction to the hyaluronic acid

that is commonly used for joint injections.

That was the only drug they used for joint injections for many years, but more recently they’ve started injecting platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist Protein (IRAP), which are made from the horse’s own blood. The idea is that the new options will encourage the horse’s own immune system to combat the inflammation and heal faster.

There are other options, that have various degrees of success.

Equine chiropractors can help horses, Stricklin says, but it’s important to realize that muscle soreness in the upper body may actually have a cause in the lower joints and legs.

“Make sure you know what’s causing the muscle pain and soreness and that it’s not a secondary issue,” he says. “I see a lot of horses that have been worked on (by a chiropractor)

and that pain keeps coming back.

When that pain keeps coming back that should tell you you’re treating a secondary source of the problem, not the primary.”

Stricklin highly recommends preventative treatments, like poultices and icing the legs after using a horse hard, to draw out the heat.

“We have to start looking at horses like professional athletes,” he says. “The things they do to keep their bodies in good condition. They get in whirlpools and ice baths.

We have to do what we can for the horses to keep those legs as healthy as possible.”

Finding a reputable, trustworthy equine vet is the first step in keeping equine athletes healthy, he says. After that it comes down to developing a relationship with that vet and following their recommendations to keep your horse sound and performing up to expectations.

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BY MARIA TIBBETTS

fter nearly 20 years, the Ranchers Quarter Horse Breeders Association sale has developed a reputation, and become a tradition.

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The sale, which started in 2000 as a way for small ranch breeders to pool their resources to market their horses, has become a go-to sale for many folks looking for promising prospects and solid ranch horses.

The rules set in place early on, and updated as necessary, hold the sellers to a high standard for quality, said Deb Mailloux, who, with her husband Gary, has been a member since the beginning.

“We’re trying to run a very high quality sale,” Deb said.

“It’s getting to be a sale for people to come who are looking for horses that are honestly represented,” said Tom Hancock, another long-time member. “It’s a reputation for the sellers, but also for the buyers. They know they’re getting quality horses.”

Most of the horses are bred for ranch work, with good bone, speed and cow sense, but there’s some running blood in some of them, and they usually include a few ponies.

One of the rules that keeps the standards high is that the seller has to have owned the horse for at least a year. They don’t have the be the original owner, but to eliminate horse “flipping”—buying a cheap horse and quickly selling it for a profit—the rule doesn’t allow for any transfers on the papers in the year prior to sale.

No breeder can sell more than half of their colt crop in a year, with a limit of six colts. “That keeps it from being a production sale for any one ranch,” Hancock said.

With nine members and two guest consignors they typically have about 80 to 85 head, about half colts and half riding horses.

The riding horses have been part of the sale for only about the last six or eight years, said Hancock.

Four of the breeders, like the Mailloux family, have been part of the sale since the beginning.

Membership is by invitation only, but non-members can get horses in the sale as guest members or as invitational. The seven-member board votes on adding members only after they have been a guest consignor for a year.

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Deb and Gary are in charge of consignments. If someone is interested in being a guest consignor Deb and Gary evaluate their horses and decide if they’re a good fit. Not every horse makes it into the sale. “We just visit with them,” Deb said. “If someone has something we don’t feel fits the sale, we’ll tell them there’s a better market somewhere else for that horse.”

The breeders who have been with the sale for years haven’t made many changes in what they’re doing, but are just doing it better, Hancock said.

“Our breeders have stayed pretty true to what they like in a horse. They’re pursuing what they like. They don’t switch around, trying to chase whatever is the popular fashion. Each breeder has a program and our programs are all different. Some like running horses and some like all-around horses and some are more specialized in to roping. I think our quality has gone up. Everybody has really focused on what they’re trying to do and improved what they’re doing. I would say we’re producing a better horse than we were 20 years ago.”

Part of the RQHBA commitment to honestly representing the horses is a futurity and a weanling showcase.

The futurities are set up for yearlings, 2-year old and 3-year olds. The only condition is that the horse had to sell through the sale as a weanling.

The eligibility stays with the horse, so even if the horse sells again, they’re still eligible to compete, but the horses don't have to compete every year. “It gives people a chance to make some money back while you’re waiting for a baby to grow up,” Hancock said. The

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futurity pays the top three places, with a first place payout of $700.

None of the members are eligible to compete in the futurity, to make sure there’s no perception of favoritism, he said.

The weanling showcase is run like a halter class, Hancock said. The foals are divided into four classes by age and sex. “Unlike most sales, where you walk through the pens and say ‘I like this one, and that one over there,’ we bring them out and you can see them side-by-side.”

In past years the futurity has been held in conjunction with the AQHA show in Rapid City, but this year there won’t be an AQHA show, so the futurity will be the morning of the sale at Besslers’ Cadillac Ranch, where the sale is held.

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Hancock said they’re still learning and making changes after nearly 20 years. “When we first started we all thought by 10 years we’d have it all figured out and it would all be easy. That wasn’t the case.”

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The Good Ones

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Birthday bareback ride partners in 2016. By this time Mairzie knew their shenanigans in and out. Rosemary and Rosalie on Mairzie (L), and Hannah on Lady (R).

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STORY AND PHOTOS BY RUTH WEICHMANN

he was a skinny, scruffy little sorrel yearling-comingtwo-year-old filly. Nothing fancy. Her feet were the wrong shape, her ears were scabby with some unknown fungus or parasite, and her long winter coat was scraggly and dull.

But she was friendly, the price was right, and for some reason my horse-timid mom was encouraging seventeen-year-old me to train my own young horse. So I wrote the check.

We had our first wreck between their barn and our trailer. She tried to pull away, spooked at something and ended up floundering on top of me in the ditch. It was February of 1997, the snow was deep, and I didn’t get hurt. That time.

Not so much the other times. She banged my face into the barn wall a couple of days later when I tried to deworm her. That hurt.

But I loved her anyway.

She was spoiled rotten, but she was quick to learn and willing to do whatever I asked of her.

She didn’t mind my saddle on her back, and within a month I was climbing onto her bareback from an upside-down water tank (I couldn’t jump on bareback then or now…) and riding her around the pen in front of the barn. It was really pretty amazing.

I agonized over a name for her. In all the horse stories the horses had such perfect names, and she needed a good one. She wasn’t registered, so I had no names of great-grand horses to refer to. I didn’t like the name her previous owners had given her either. Six weeks went by and she still didn’t have the right name. I was still calling her “little mare.”

We happened to watch a movie set in the 1940s and a song from it started running through my head.

“Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?”

There it was. Mairzie.

I tried it on her and it fit. Mairzie.

It was perfect.

We learned and grew together. She was always happy to see me, always seemed glad to be caught, and she whinnied at me from the corral when she saw me across the yard. If I walked across her pen she followed me even if I didn’t catch her first.

She had that itchy spot on her neck just behind her ears and oh, she loved it when I scratched her there. And I loved to hop on her bareback and just ride. Just for the fun of it.

The worst wreck happened when she was three.

I was riding her with a rope halter and learned the hard way to never, never, never wrap a rope around my hand. Marizie spooked at a pheasant, whirled, and I slipped out of the saddle. She took off at a gallop. I tried to hold on and whoa her, but inside of a couple of seconds I was on the ground and she was dragging me along by my right hand as fast as she could run.

“Dear God, I can’t let go!” ran through my mind, as I saw her belly above me and the blue sky beyond. It seemed to last longer than it did, but with one final thud I was still and Marizie galloped back to the gate. I shook the dirt off and went to catch her and take my saddle off before heading to the house to show mom what was left of my right middle finger. The nail was still there, somehow, but the entire tip was gone, down to the bone. My hand was rope burned pretty badly, I

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Mairzie and me when we were young and reckless.

May, 1998.

me and would do what I asked of her.

Always. She had a wild side, but she was sweet through and through.

Days flowed into weeks that turned into months that grew into years. Mairzie matured into a tried and true ranch horse, although my cowboy credentials did not grow at the same pace. She learned the routine of checking heifers every two hours, with the patience lessons of standing tied in between. She dragged a calf sled, dragged calves at brandings, and ponied headstrong colts. I, on the other hand, roped one calf, one time, and it is a story I don’t care to recount!

She was plucky. She could spook, and how she loved to run! But nothing fazed her when it came to cows.

She would work all day long, mile after mile, and not give out. We trailed cows twelve miles home from pasture in the bitter cold after an early snowstorm, and Mairzie was the horse that finally convinced the cows that crossing a bridge really was ok.

could feel the edges of broken bones in my thumb, and I had hoof prints from my thighs to my chest. After a trip to the Emergency Room and a lecture from my Dad on the importance of wearing gloves, I sank into bed, just glad to be alive, glad I still had a hand and an arm.

Ezra with Mairzie and Mariah.

Mairzie had hurt me, and she had scared me pretty badly. She wasn’t mean, just showing a much livelier side of herself than she had presented the year before. It wasn’t entirely her fault that I had fallen off. Who couldn’t love her in spite of the pain? With some reminders about who was really in charge, some ranch miles put on her by the cowboy I would later call my husband, and the addition of a snaffle bit, our relationship improved.

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Early morning summer pasture checks were our favorite times. The golden light breaking over the hills, the dew like diamonds in the grass, the contented cows waiting to be counted, and Marizie’s run when I gave her her head all spoke joy. On a couple of occasions, she stepped in a hole and we both went head over teakettle and fell with a crash. She would stand there, looking down at me with her quizzical expression, wondering what in tarnation was I doing down there and waiting for me to right myself and climb back on. And away we’d go again.

In the midst of those busy days of farm work and college courses, I made a point to take time on my birthday to just ride. Just for the fun of it. Mairzie. Bareback. It became a tradition.

Then one day the cowboy that helped me with Mairzie’s training asked me to marry him, and Mairzie and I moved to West River ranch country. We got to gather cattle together on our honeymoon.

Somehow, then, Marizie became my husband’s horse.

Maybe it was because I started having babies. Maybe it was because she was the best horse on the place. Who knows? Pretty soon she was carrying our babies in their

Daddy’s saddle.

She worked hard with Ben. AI’ing cows. Day work for the neighbors. Brandings. Getting calving heifers into the barn. She was the go-to horse. Occasionally she’d favor a front foot a bit, but she always came out of it.

Until 2007. Another horse took off and Mairzie was asked to go after him. In typical fashion, she kept chase and didn’t give up. But the next day she could barely walk.

A trip to Dr. Ismay revealed severe navicular deterioration. She was only twelve.

around. Pretty soon he figured out how to communicate with her, and she figured out that there really was somebody up there; soon they graduated to a slightly bigger pen, then to trotting, loping, jumping feedbunks, and John Wayne style bareback tricks.

Fast-forward another decade.

A couple more babies, for a total of five, Mairzie and I both showing grey around the edges. Each child, in turn, has been carried in the saddle with their daddy or I on her back; each child, in turn, has been boosted up and

“Get yourself a different horse,” was the verdict.

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Another pregnancy sidelined my riding for a time. Mairzie had a year and half ’s rest. When I got on her again she was full of fire and sass, and her limp was mostly gone.

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So we rode her. Not as hard as before; if we put in a long day she would definitely favor that right front foot. But we could still ride her. By this time our oldest son was needing his own mount, and Mairzie was the natural choice.

She had never been a kids’ horse, though, and their first venture did not end well. She took off, he came off, and it was another wreck. Thankfully all his limbs were still intact.

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Bareback and braids; Hannah and Mairzie, Spring 2018.

Mairzie was getting grey but she was still as spunky as ever.

learned to balance on her bareback, learned to ask her to go, to stop, to turn, learned to move with her smooth-as-glass trot.

A couple years ago I commented to Ben that she was starting to get old, and he said she just needs to live long enough to teach them all to ride…

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January so I could feel her warmth when it’s twenty below in the sunshine. Sometimes I’d go out to check cows bareback if I could sneak away without someone else wanting to ride her.

I kept the birthday tradition of a bareback ride, but with three little girls tagging along, riding double with me or bumping me off Mairzie altogether so they could ride her.

Sometimes the birthday ride coincided with pulling bulls. I don’t do that bareback. The two big boys and their dad, all of us well-mounted on younger, spryer horses, get in on the action, with the girls all

Her baby's on his daddy's saddle..." My sister-in-law, Charity Wiechmann Newman, wrote a song inspired by this moment along the trail drive between their home and ours during the drought summer of 2002.

fighting over who gets to ride Mairzie. Because she was the best. She just was.

we both fell. The sheer joy of the wind in my face and her gallop the rhythm beneath me.

And she’d get extra oats because she was getting that old-horse look; the sway to her back, the dishes above her eyes, the gray hairs on her face; but she still insisted on keeping up with the action behind the cattle and took no sass from the bulls determined to stay with their harem.

How many times did I just slip on her bridle and ride for the pure pleasure of it?

How many miles did I ride her? We ranchers don’t put step-counting computer chips on our horses’ feet, but I know it was a lot. The pasture checks of our younger days when light and dreams were golden. The uncountable miles of gathering bulls and cows out of the government pasture. The ten-mile drive home from up north every fall. The eight-mile trek across the river to my in-laws’ that my husband’s family has been making for the last thirty years, give or take. Countless trips out to the pasture after the milk cows, forays into the neighbors’ pastures after renegade bulls and stud horses, mare gatherings, pair sortings, heifer checkings…

How much did she teach me in all those miles? That is equally hard to quantify. Balance. Moving with her. Trust.

Communication. How to be brave and get back on when

Not enough.

Monday morning, June 3, 2019, my youngest daughter came into the kitchen. The girls had beat me out the door that morning.

“Mommy, why is Mairzie laying there like she’s dead?”

My heart hit the pit of my stomach.

Just last night she was trotting around the yard with a girl on her back and a piece of twine for a bridle.

“Maybe she’s just resting,” I tried to be optimistic as I headed out to investigate.

But there was no question when I saw her. No maybes.

No goodbyes.

Mairzie…

She was gone.

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No sign of struggle. No days of teeth floatings, special feed, slowing down, and slow aging. Just a faithful, kind, feisty, determined old heart that stopped beating. Twenty-two years together came to an abrupt end. My old cowboy neighbor said, “That’s the best way,” when I told him the news. He is probably right.

But I think I would have preferred a little warning.

Although I knew that day would come eventually, part of me wanted to hope that somehow it never would.

How many miles did she carry me? I’ll never know that for sure. But I do know that I carried her the last mile. And with the tricks a person’s mind plays I kept expecting her to look up at me with that quirky expression wondering what in tarnation was she doing down there and what in the blazes did I think I was doing anyway?

But she didn’t.

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And I left her there on the hill in the far corner of the pasture and went home to figure out how to get the day’s work done without her to depend on. Who rides which horse when the one that everybody can ride is suddenly missing?

We didn’t raise any foals out of Mairzie to carry on her line, because we didn’t want a baby to be saddled with her severe navicular issues. But among the horses we do raise I’m always watching for the ones that have her spirit, her personality, her love of chasing cows.

And never mind your fancy grullos and buckskins and roans. Mairzie taught me long ago that a good horse is a good color. Although I must admit I’m a sucker for a blaze-faced sorrel with white feet.

And there’s a three-year-old filly that likes to follow me around, even when I haven’t caught her, that I need to climb onto one of these days.

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