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WEBER QUARTER HORSES Welcomes Playgun Watcher!

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Selling 65 head of performance and ranch horses, including a few select weanlings & offspring from the following 3 stallions: Tee Baron Red (Mr. Baron Red x Bow Cross Two), Niobrara Rocket (Easy Jets Rocket x Niobrara Lady), and Handy Blue Tiger {deceased} (Tiger Handy x Blue Maid Jinks)

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Set along the legendary Snake River in the shadow of Wyoming’s magnificent Grand Teton Mountain Range, this legacy property is just five miles from downtown Jackson and fifteen minutes to world-class skiing and commercial/private air service. A destination mountain resort known for its year-round recreational opportunities and home to some of America’s top corporate leaders, Jackson has a lively art scene, upscale retail and sophisticated dining. $100,000,000. Ron Morris or Billy Long

Gatlin Homestead

STORY, W YOMING

Situated at the end of the road and bordering the Big Horn National Forest at the base of the Big Horn Mountains in historic Story, this 40-acre horse ranch offers privacy, abundant wildlife and spectacular views. $1,750,000. Doug Haye or Ron Morris

North Platte River Ranch

CASPER, WYOMING

69,556 total acre production ranch with twelve incredible miles of the North Platte River, two homes, cattle facilities, runs 2,800 sheep, 550 yearling ewes & rams, 430 cow/calf pair and 80 head of replacement heifers and bull battery. $28,000,000. Ron Morris or Matt Johnston

Fiddleback Ranch

DOUGLAS, WYOMING

Set along nine miles of the Cheyenne River and operating as a 900 A.U. ranch plus bulls and horses, this year-round grass ranch consists of 4,267 deeded acres together with state, federal and private leases of over 50,000 acres. $3,800,000. Ron Morris or Matt Johnston

Piney Creek Ranch

STORY/BANNER, WYOMING

Located southeast of Story at the base of the Big Horn Mountains, this 250-acre horse ranch has frontage on Little Piney Creek, direct access to state land and national forest and comfortable, country living for horse enthusiasts. $1,975,000. Doug Haye or Ron Morris

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Striving for authenticity Wyoming artist recreates Western scenes

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hayne – Star Valley-based Western artist Clark Kelley Price, tic,” he continues. “They need to look and feel real, especially the aniwho created the cover art on this year’s Rocky Mountain Horse mals and people, and not only their anatomy and structure, but also the Edition, says he’s drawn and painted Western scenes from the way they look and their expressions – especially with horses. Many time he was young. people can paint horses from a photograph, but there’s another element “My dad exposed me to the outdoors when I was a little boy, and in painting not just how they look, but how they feel, and their personhe took me hunting and camping. I was always interested in things like alities. That’s the most challenging and difficult part of Western paintthat,” says Price of his earliest days in the art world. ings – making them feel right, and making them feel authentic.”

Although he didn’t grow up on a ranch, Price says his father grew The process up on a ranch in southern Idaho, so Price grew up visiting and working A 24- by 36-inch painting can take him one to two months to in that part of the country. complete, while smaller works can take a week “The first painting I can remember selling “Many people can paint to two weeks, says Price. was a little pastel drawing of a deer that I sold in usually have at least three and up to horses from a photograph, seven“Ipaintings junior high school for $1.76,” remembers Price, going at one time,” he says. “It who went on to obtain an associate of arts degree but there’s another element depends how much pressure I’m under, but that from Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho and a in painting not just how works best for me, because if I work on only bachelor of arts degree from Brigham Young they look, but how they feel, one at a time I get jaded and tired and start seeUniversity in Provo, Utah. ing cross-eyed. I like to set my paintings aside and their personalities.”

The inspiration after a couple days, because a change is as good – Clark Kelley Price, as a rest, and in painting that’s really true.”

Today, Price says he visits new ranches and new areas for ideas for his art, and he also refers Price says his favorite medium is oil paint, Cover artist back to his own experiences working on ranches. although he also works in watercolor, pen and “I also refer to experiences some of my friends have told me ink and some sculpting. about,” he adds.

“My main thing is oil paint, because I can cover all up my mis To paint his scenes, Price imagines how they would work and how takes,” he says with a smile. they would look, and then he uses a combination of photographs and Price says he doesn’t even know who many of his customers are, his memory to paint. because he sells most of his work through four main art galleries in “Sometimes I paint strictly out of my mind, and sometimes I use Florida, Arizona, Texas and Wyoming. However, he says he also has photos for reference for things like the landscape,” he says. quite a few customers who buy directly from his studio in Star Val “I enjoy creating a scene that is reminiscent of something I’ve seen ley. or done, or reminiscent of things I’ve read or heard about,” says Price, “I’ve sold paintings overseas in foreign countries – you never mentioning he enjoys historical scenes. “I like the idea of recreating know who will be interested in Western art,” he says. things that have happened.”

He also does commission work for customers from coast to coast “The challenge in Western art is creating scenes that are authen- who ask him to paint a specific idea.

Patience and endurance

“I love being an artist, and I’m glad I can do it for a living,” notes Price.

“It’s very rewarding, but it’s also quite taxing. Painting is hard, and requires a lot of patience and endurance.”

However, he says he believes paintings are a special thing that add richness to people’s lives.

“When they have paintings, they can go back and look at them every day.

I’ve had customers say they enjoy something new about my paintings every day, and that’s very satisfying to me,” he adds.

Christy Martinez is managing editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup and can be reached at christy@wylr.net.

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owell – After B.J. Griffin decided to go back to college to get a business degree, she came out with both a degree and plans for a successful business.

“In order to graduate, I had to run a bogus business for a capstone project,” says Griffin crafts chaps for a cause Griffin. “After I was done, my instructors encouraged me and said, ‘You should do this for real.’”

In 2007, Griffin launched her business by making a pair of pink chaps, complete with a breast cancer awareness ribbon and the Wrangler logo. Her talent for leatherwork and passion for cancer awareness, however, were developed long before.

“I’ve been working with leather since I was in seventh grade with 4-H projects,” she says, “and cancer has been a really bad major part of my family.”

Griffin lost both of her parents and her brother to cancer, and she notes, “It is something that is near and dear to my heart to help people that are sick and to help their families if I can.”

Tough enough?

Griffin’s business, Leather Design, has partnered with Wrangler to increase cancer awareness. She donates a portion of her profits to area charities, local cancer charities and Big Horn Basin Women’s Wellness, and tries to help local efforts.

“We’ve started working with a couple of rodeo committees that are involved with Cowboys Kickin’ Cancer, too,” says Griffin, mentioning that the benefit raises money for all types of cancer. “They auction a pair of multi-colored chaps every year at the Colorado State Fair to benefit the At home – B.J. Griffin says she is organization.” right at home with leatherwork and On a larger scale, Griffin recrodeo. “I love and understand the ognizes the importance of research Western lifestyle and all that goes efforts, but says, “I don’t want to play along with it,” says Griffin. “Tooling with the test tubes. There are quite a leather has been my passion for 30 few big corporate efforts supporting years.” Courtesy photo research, and I want the money generated from these chaps to help people who are sick. That’s a big thing with me.”

For anyone who orders a pair of chaps, Griffin keeps materials on hand to assemble chaps, but she also has a pair of pink Wrangler chaps she lends out.

“They have been to Alaska, and Miss Rodeo Florida wore them for a couple of weeks,” she says, adding that each person who wears the chaps signs and dates them, and they will likely be auctioned in the future to benefit cancer charities.

A family affair Griffin’s son Jake, who has been professionally competing as a

saddle bronc rider Kickin’ cancer – Cowboys for almost 12 years, Kickin’ Cancer is a fundraiser that buys chaps from Griffin also wears her chaps annually, and her chaps have to promote the cause. featured up to 20 colors, each Jake is also a part representing a different type of owner in the business. cancer. Courtesy photo “Jake wears the chaps for two years and writes where he rode in them,” says Griffin. “Then, we auction them off.”

Jake’s chaps are donated to a rodeo committee they select and proceeds go to local cancer charities.

“The chap auctions put money in their own communities,” she explains. “In Riverton, last year they brought $55,000 to the Tough Enough to Wear Pink fund.”

Since the beginning of her business, Griffin says some rodeo committees have been buying chaps for auction for six years, and over $350,000 has been generated from the sale of chaps and chinks at various auctions. She has sold cancer awareness promoting chaps to Miss Rodeo America, Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Colorado State Fair and others.

Special projects One particular story that Griffin is passionate about is that of Tacey Raulerson of College Station, Texas. As an infant, Raulerson was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eye.

After numerous chemotherapy treatments, both of Raulerson’s eyes were removed to prevent spread of the cancer.

“Tacey’s mother emailed me and told me her story,” says Griffin.

“I thought, I have all of these spare pieces, so I’m going to donate these “I don’t want to play chaps to her.” with the test tubes. I Griffin says that, at only 13 want to help the peoyears old, Raulerson travels around the country, attending rodeos, visit- ple who are sick.”

– B.J. Griffin, ing children in hospitals and raising Leather Design funds for cancer charities.

“Tacey is completely blind, but she goes around to rodeos, packs the flag and runs the barrels,” adds Griffin. “She is an amazing child.”

“There are a lot of different stories,” says Griffin. “If I can be a part of making a difference, even if it’s a few dollars, that’s why I do what I do.”

More than chaps Griffin’s business extends beyond simply crafting pink leather chaps; she has launched a line of make-up bags recently and makes a variety of leather goods.

Custom chaps and chinks, as well as accessories and home décor items, make up the rest of her business, and Griffin encourages people to contact her with questions or ideas, noting that she creates a wide range of products, all satisfaction guaranteed.

“I’m a perfectionist,” says Griffin, “and the whole time I build a pair of chaps, I am thinking about the person they are for. A lot of my heart goes into every pair of chaps.”

Visit Griffin’s website at leatherdesign.net to contact her or see her work. Saige Albert is editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup and can be reached at saige@wylr.net.

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heridan – Polo and ranching share a common it to work cattle is good for its mind. In addition, tie in the West – the importance of family. using our ranch horses for polo is the only way our In Sheridan, polo, ranching and families family could afford polo. The sport has really been have dovetailed since the late 1880s, starting with great for us,” Doc notes.

English aristocrats who came to Wyoming and Sons Orrin and Mike Connell became active Montana from England to raise polo ponies – and not only in the family’s cow-calf operation, but also later remounts for the Boer War. Today, polo and with polo. Orrin agrees that polo is a great family ranching remain vibrant, with several generations sport and adds additional skills to a ranch horse. raising cattle and polo horses.

“I became more serious about breeding polo One of these families is the Connells, whose ponies around 1990,” explains Orrin. “When you land lies only a few miles out of Big Horn. Bob breed a pony, you want her offspring to be better “Doc” and Bunny Connell, along with their chilthan she is. My one stud is out of a mare I bought dren and grandchildren, still keep the ranching/polo in New Zealand, and now many of our horses have tradition alive. the New Zealand Thoroughbred blood. We like “I was born in Oregon, and after my mom died Thoroughbreds for polo because they are bred to when I was four my aunt raised my two brothers run and have stamina. This year we’ll have about and me. She worked for the Gallatins, who owned a 12 ponies playing in Big Horn.” ranch near Sheridan, and when I was eight years old Orrin’s philosophy is that, if you have horses to the Gallatins suggested I head out there in the sumuse on the ranch, you might as well play them and mer and lend a hand. The first year I was out there, Polo ponies – Orrin plays polo in a then sell them. game at the Big Horn Polo Club. Photo I worked for a dairy,” Doc remembers.

“We break them as three-year-olds and go right courtesy DeeDee Connell The 87-year-old explains that by 1940 he was into working cows,” Orrin explains. “We get them working for a ranch that included the Circle V polo company. Part of used to polo in their first 30 days under saddle by swinging mallets, hithis duties included bringing horses for the umpires to the polo field. ting balls and riding in with other horses so they learn to accept contact.

“This area was considered a hot spot for polo ponies, as several Generally we have them playing polo after 45 days of riding.” folks had large polo operations. I soon had the opportunity to ride the The Connells have had success with many of their ponies; some ponies,” he says. have been purchased by high-goal players and have played in the U.S. Doc, a veterinarian, started actively playing polo in 1952.

Open, which is to polo what the Super Bowl is to football. To get his “I have to admit, at that time, ponies seen by a variety of players, Orrin sends his ponies to promising “Ranching and polo go I really didn’t know what I young American polo players; this not only helps a young player have doing. I played anything a good string of horses, but is a great way for other players to see his together well. A horse was that was sound. Then we horses in action. The recent establishment of the Flying H Polo Club can get bored playing began to own studs and mares, outside of Big Horn, which brings in top players in July and August, polo, so being able to and started raising and training has been a coup for those selling quality ponies.

Perk Connells’ stud Tommy’s World has sired seven Best Playing take that horse and use polo ponies,” he explains.

Breeding strategies Ponies at all levels of polo, including Camacho Cup winner Java Time; it to work cattle is good “Ranching and polo go Outback 20 goal winner Blueprint; and United States Polo Associafor its mind.” together well. A horse can get tion’s 16 goal winner, Bright Eyes.

– Doc Connell, bored playing polo, so being polo pony breeder able to take that horse and use

Polo, ranching and family

Connells combine disciplines

Sunshine – Mares and foals enjoy a summer day at the Connell Ranch near the Big Horn Mountains. Photo courtesy Orrin Connell

Becoming involved Polo is certainly a family affair with the Connells. Orrin’s wife DeeDee is active in all aspects of polo, as is daughter Katie, 25, who has made a career of working with polo horses. Their younger daughter Alli, 21, is currently giving polo a try. Orrin’s brother Mike and his wife Perk both played polo until recently and are still very involved in polo pony breeding and training, as well as ranching.

Perk currently serves as president of the Big Horn Polo Club.

The Connell brothers’ sister Laura and her husband also work for a neighboring ranch.

“Polo is always a mental and physical challenge at any level,” says Orrin. “Come on out to the Big Horn Polo Club, or there’s a club in Jackson Hole and the University of Wyoming recently started a collegiate team. The best way to start is bring a horse, bring your Western saddle, pick up a mallet and come play. If you can drag calves and sort cattle, and put up with critters wandering by, you can compete in the sport of polo.”

For more information on polo, visit bigSuccessful sire – Perk Connell and Tommy’s hornpoloclub.com, World, her stud that has sired seven Best Play- uspolo.org or call

Perk Connell at 307-674-4928. Rebecca Colnar Mott is a correspondent for the Wyoming Livestock Roundup from Sheridan. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr.net.

Springtime – Orrin Connell enjoys a new crop of foals. Photo courtesy DeeDee Connell

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n s u w r o s r r l u d o w t i i de u q E Fox family hosts riding tours

ubois – Few would guess that an unassuming house on a quiet side street in Dubois holds the largest international riding tour agency in the United States. The business, Equitours, employs five full-time staff who manage riding tours in 30 countries for approximately 2,500 clients annually.

In 1971, Bayard and Mel Fox purchased the Bitterroot Ranch after Bayard’s retirement from the CIA, and they began raising cattle and horses, as well as hosting guests. They started Equitours soon thereafter as a way to diversify their income during Wyoming’s winters.

As Mel grew up on a farm at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro and speaks fluent Swahili, Kenya’s Masai Mara was the first place they led a riding tour. The Foxes’ international riding experience and language capabilities (Bayard speaks French, Polish, German, Persian and some Spanish) helps them promote Equitours and maintain relationships with outfitters.

“The international riding world is small, in a way, and you run into a lot of the same people,” says Bayard. “In the beginning, I traveled a lot in the winter to “Video games, computers establish contacts. All of and televisions don’t con- our staff have gone on riding tours and we personnect you to the land, but vis- ally visit all of our outfititing a ranch requires real ters.” participation. I’d like to see Over the years the Fox has obtained the more guest ranches go back family Shoshone National Forto the old-style horse and est grazing permit behind cattle ranch, and empha- their upper ranch and built size riding over heated up their irrigated lower on Missouri Valley swimming pools and tele- ranch Road. Bayard and Mel’s visions in every room.” son and daughter-in-law – Bayard Fox, Richard and Hadley overEquitours see their mother cows and 195 head of horses, as well as lead pack trips and provide CHA-certified lessons.

“In the early years, I ran a hunting camp up in the wilderness that helped us extend our season,” says Bayard. “When I turned 70 I decided that raising cattle is a lot easier than packing a 600-pound elk out of the mountains. Since I stopped guiding hunters we have made just about the same amount of income from guests coming in September to help gather the cattle.”

Matching horses and riders Equitours and Bitterroot Ranch clients are 75 percent repeat customers and mainly hail from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Australia. The Fox family does not offer the typical dude riding experience, therefore they employ an extensive process to evaluate their clients’ riding abilities.

“Frankly, most dude ranches have really tame riding,” says Bayard. “Dude ranches are very different from one another, and there is almost as much variety in the people who run them.

Most of them are more resorts than they are riding ranches. Guests go for salads, massages, wearing big cowboy hats and sing-a-longs around the campfire.”

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Africa – Mel and Bayard Fox with Kenyan friends during a riding trip in East Africa. The Fox family operates Equitours, an international riding tours agency out of Dubois. Courtesy photo

The Bitterroot Ranch hosts about 400 clients a season, and the Foxes keep at least three horses per client to make sure they have a fresh ride. Mel manages their horse program and is careful to have people on the right horse for their skill level and within the correct riding group for their pace.

“We think a lot about safety,” Bayard explains. “I’ve seen many prideful accidents over the years, and have had a few myself. The big secret to avoiding injuries is to put people in the category where they belong and give them the right horse and the ride they can handle safely.

“All our horses are trained a certain way and we can’t retrain them every week. Instead, we train our guests how to handle our horses the way they’re used to being ridden. It makes some of our first-time guests unhappy, but the people who really do want to ride take our instruction fine.”

Bayard also works as an expert witness on riding accident court cases. He feels that, especially in Wyoming, there are no safety standards for dude ranches.

“It’s a lot of responsibility to lead someone on a ride and be careful that they don’t break their necks,” he says. “It’s a risk management balance to do the type of exciting, fast riding that we allow according to riders’ abilities.”

Cohesive business The Fox family has raised the majority of their ranch herd, attesting to their commitment to provide quality horses for clients. About half their herd is Arabians, and the remainder is a mixture of Appaloosas, Percherons and Quarter Horses.

The Fox family has found that raising cattle, hosting guests at their ranch and operating international riding tours create a cohesive business for them. For the future, Bayard would like to lead a riding tour in Mongolia, as there is great fly-fishing.

“The biggest problem is that their seasons run the same as ours and I like to be in Wyoming during the summer. Same thing with Iceland, which is also a great place to ride,” he notes.

Melissa Hemken is a correspondent for the Wyoming Livestock Roundup from Lander. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr.net.

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aurel, Mont. – Knowing full well that the risk of getting hung up in a stirrup and dragged by a horse is high when working on a ranch, Montana’s Mike McCoy decided to do something to lessen that risk when his kids were old McCoy family’s stirrups prevent wrecks enough to start riding.

“My dad has been in the cattle business his whole life, and he’s been dragged himself, and he saw a guy killed in Wyoming,” says Jake McCoy, Mike’s son. “When we kids started riding, he was pretty sure one of us would get dragged, so he was always helping us with our feet and none of us rode with stirrups until we were pretty old.”

It was after Mike heard about a kid who was killed at a branding that he sat down with a man in Billings, Mont. to partner on the original breakaway stirrup, and that’s when he founded Saddle Technologies Incorporated. After the design and mechanics were worked out, Mike also took input from cowboy friends and engineers to fine-tune the stirrups.

“Today the principle of the mechanics is the same, but they have been engineered and fine-tuned over the years,” says Jake. “Today it works a lot better, and will last a whole lot longer, but the firing pin function is the same, at 45 degrees forward and 72 degrees back.”

“The most difficult part of making the stirrup is the design,” he adds. “It’s a bi-directional firing pin. Most firing pins will fire when the spring coils going into its natural position, but since we have a forward and backward release the spring also has to fire when it’s uncoiling, so everything really has to be right with our parts.”

Custom carving – A Building a business custom-carved leather To finish the stirrups, Jake says he does the rawhide, while Rotie Twitchell Visalia breakaway stirrup made by Saddle from Park City, Utah takes care of the stitching.

Pricing on the stirrups ranges from $320 to $600, depending on how fancy Technologies Incorporated. Courtesy photo the customer wants them.

“We do some custom tooling and silverwork, but typically with custom saddles we prefer to sell a bare pair of stirrups so the saddle maker can match them to the saddle,” says Jake.

Customers come from all 50 states and 14 countries, including quite a few in Canada.

Of the market for the breakaway stirrups, Jake says that on their best year they sold between 500 and 600 pairs. “All in all, we’ve had 247 The McCoys advertise through their website, as well as in customers call back to magazine and occasional television ads and a few shows. tell us that the stirrups “We’re about as much of a family company as it gets,” says Jake. “It’s my folks and I, and Rotie who does the worked and saved them leather covering.” from a wreck.”

“Normal use varies from customer to customer, but we – Jake McCoy, sure build these to last,” he comments. “We put a five-year Saddle Technologies warranty on them, and judging from saddle wear, they last Incorporated about 70 percent the life of a saddle. Some guys wear them out, but they wear out saddles and horses, too. For an averFounder – Mike McCoy with one of the age pleasure rider these days, they shouldn’t have any trouble getting a lifetime out of them.” breakaway stirrups made by the McCoy In addition to the stirrup business, the McCoys also raise purebred Charolais cattle. family company. Courtesy photo “We bounce back and forth between the ranch and the business end of the stirrups,” says Jake.

Success stories Jake says there are many stories about how the stirrups have prevented wrecks.

“The one I’m most familiar with saved my own neck,” he says. “I was riding a colt and he spooked at a log. I brought him back around to face the log, and he dropped his head like he was coming to his senses, but before I knew it he was back around and in the air, and I was out before I knew he was bucking. I was buried in the stirrups and managed to kick them on the way down, and the stirrups and I stayed on the ground.”

He also mentions a Canadian customer whose son was pole bending when the horse went down and the stirrups released.

“All in all, we’ve had 247 customers call back to tell us that the stirrups worked and saved them from a wreck,” says Jake.

For more information visit breakawaystirrups.com.

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“My dad is a saddle maker, horse trader and, at the time, he was ranching,” says Hagel, noting that he taught her the trade. “I wanted a summer job, but it was a long drive to town so he suggested I started twisting rope.”

“I started twisting rope, and it wasn’t that bad,” she adds. “It was actually fun, so I kept doing it.”

Putting it all together Hagel’s horsehair ropes, or mecates, are put together in a variety of patterns and colors, and she starts with mane hair sent from around the country.

“I’ve gotten hair from friends that know I build rope, and I have had hair sent to me out of the blue,” she says. “First, I have to wash the hair. It needs to be clean, because it doesn’t spin well if it isn’t.”

Hagel sorts the horsehair by color and shade and runs it through a machine called a picker, which is similar to a wool carder.

“The picker separates the hairs and makes them nice and fluffy,” she explains. “After I have a nice bun of hair, I spin the threads – just like spinning wool into yarn.”

Each 24-foot-long, five-eighths-inch rope “I started twisting rope, requires 15 threads that are about 75 feet long and and it wasn’t that bad. require 15 minutes each to spin. After spinning the Hagel starts the plying process, or putting It was actually fun, so I threads, the threads together to make the final rope. kept doing it.”

“It’s time intensive,” she says, noting that it – Sara Hagel, takes between one and two hours to put together Dayton mecate maker the final rope. “I really like hair work because nothing is really set in stone. It’s always different and I’m learning new things every day.”

Homemade equipment In 1995, Hagel acquired a rope-twisting machine that was built in 1929 for a man blinded in a mining accident.

“Blind Sam Champlain built rope on this machine for 30 years,” says Hagel. “Then he sold it to a man named Bob who was blinded by brain tumors. When I got the machine, I had to replace the motor on both ends, and we replaced all the sprockets in back.”

Other than minor replacement parts, her machine is identical to the 1929 model. Hagel utilizes the two-ended machine to twist ropes in a climate-controlled shop. When she is twisting rope, Hagel notes that it is important to monitor both the humidity and temperature of her shop.

“If the humidity gets too high, the hair starts to absorb moisture, and it does weird things,” she explains. “The ropes don’t go together right, they don’t lay right, and they don’t feel right.

I learned this all by trial and error.”

Advantages of a horsehair rope Hagel’s ropes are used as reins for snaffle bits and rawhide hackamores.

“The theory is that the prickles on the rope start to teach the horse to neck rein,” says Hagel. “The reason that I like them is because they have a whole different feel.”

The dynamics of the rope are different than synthetic ropes, according to Hagel, who notes that the twisted nature of the rope allows them to move more easily.

“They have a life of their own. They want to coil and jump from one hand to another,” she explains. “A braided rope can’t do that because the strands are crossed over one another.”

Leather endeavors Hagel also builds strap goods and saddles as part of her business, also based on a suggestion from her father.

“After I started making ropes, Dad said, ‘You should probably make some slobber straps,’” she mentions. “I started cutting out a few slobber straps and decided that, if I was going to do that, I might as well make a headstall or two. It grew from there.”

She strives to build functional equipment, including spur straps, headstalls, saddles and hobbles, and she repairs damaged equipment.

“The economy is hitting everyone in the leather business hard right now, and I’ve noticed that I’m not getting as many orders for new stuff,” she notes. “Instead, I’m getting calls for replacement pieces.”

Marketing mecates Hagel notes that she started marketing her hair ropes at a Buck Brannaman horsemanship clinic.

“It was one of the first clinics he did in Sheridan, and I visited with Buck there,” she says.

Intricate designs – Horsehair ropes can have intricate designs or be one color and simple. Ropes with more complex color patterns take longer to make, says Hagel. Saige Albert photo

Long hours – Sara Hagel twists the individual threads in each rope before assembling the rope. Each thread takes approximately 15 minutes to twist and has to be 75 feet long for a rope one-third that length. Saige Albert photo

History – Sara Hagel acquired her rope-making machine in 1995, but the device dates back to 1929, when Sam Champlain used it. Sam was blinded in a mining accident, and his friends built and timed the machine so he could keep busy twisting rope. Saige Albert photo

“I showed him some of the ropes that I had built, and he took almost half of them.”

After that, calls started coming in from around the country from people looking for Hagel’s ropes.

“Buck liked them well enough and used them, so he told people where to get them,” explains Hagel. “I don’t advertise – it’s all just word of mouth, and I’m out about a year and a half on orders.”

She also attends the Californios Ranch Roping each year in Reno, Nev. to sell her work and meet existing customers from around the country.

“That’s where a bulk of my customers are,” says Hagel. “It’s really the only time that people can walk in and buy one of my ropes because I stockpile them for that event. Everything else is special order.”

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Present-day owner Susan Moss-Wyatt grew up in the have so many. We sell a lot of store’s Riverton location, which her parents H.H. “Red” boots, and they keep us going and Diana Moss opened in 1966. Today Susan owns and manages the store with her husband Jerry Wyatt, with when the horse season is cold.” help from long-time employee Tut Miladinovich and – Susan Moss-Wyatt, recent hire Tori Pike.

Moss Saddles, Boots and Tack “The first time they left me alone in the store I was nine years old,” recalls Susan of her early days with the business. “They had to run errands, and no one else was there, and I knew how to run the register.”

Adding products, brands Although some viewed the store’s move to the Casper area as a smart business decision, Susan says she really made the transition so that she could get married. Since then, she says she and Jerry have added more to the store than what it contained in Riverton, thus their slogan: Moss Saddles, Boots and Tack… Plus a Whole Lot More.

“Since we’ve been here we picked up Boulet and Twisted X boots and Austin Accent jewelry, and we just picked up Kelly Herd jewelry,” says Susan, noting that Wyoming Traders has also added shirts, coats and vests to their line. “We’ve also added Martin, Circle G According to an old newspaper clipand Cactus saddles, and we now have McCall saddles ping that hangs in the store today, Moss again.”

Saddles, Boots and Tack began in River Because of their wide array of brands and lines, ton as Moss Car Sales, when Susan Moss’s parents H.H. “Red” and Diane Susan says the store does quite a bit of special ordering.

Moss sold two personal vehicles to “Many things come in right away, but Hondo boot launch the business. company lets us spec boots to the customer specs, so Through the years, Red also sold those take a little longer because the customer is getting camper trailers, pickup toppers, pickup exactly what they want,” she explains. stock racks, portable panels and many Of adding the new brands and products, Susan says other items while Diane ran a secondthat sometimes they get visits from road reps who are hand store nearby. looking for a new store, or they might pick up new lines

In 1968, while in Colorado, the couple when they go to market or when they see something stopped at Colorado Saddlery and placed advertised that they think would be a good fit. an order for $150 worth of tack, which launched Moss Saddles, Boots and Tack.

“I really like boots,” says Susan when asked about The business eventually also included her favorite product in the store. “I like saddles, but you Moss Trailer Sales, which included trailer can only have so many. We sell a lot of boots, and they parts. keep us going when the horse season is cold – people still have to wear boots.”

The store also does a brisk Christmas business, and she says boots sales in December keep increasing.

“We always sold a lot of boots at Christmas in Riverton, and now we’re picking up here,” she adds.

Keeping busy Customers come from far and wide to Moss Saddles, Boots and Tack, and that includes from throughout Wyoming as well as beyond the state’s borders.

“With the oil boom we get a lot of out-of-state people,” says Susan. “We’ve shipped to New York, North Carolina, Texas, Idaho and Utah, but we don’t do a real big mail order business.”

Susan says she doesn’t really have a daily routine, because she never knows when customers will come in.

“Sometimes we get here and they’re waiting, and we’re busy all day, and sometimes we have two or three hours to get some work done. There aren’t many days when it’s just dead,” she says.

Of the fluctuations in the horse market, Susan says they work for both good and bad.

“The low horse market takes away some customers, but we also get new customers from the people who didn’t want to pay more for a horse previously, and then they generally need everything for equipment,” she says.

Looking to the future, Susan says she would like a bigger building, but that finding an affordable opportunity in Casper is a challenge.

“We carry a large variety of things, and we try to listen to our customers and keep things that people might need but aren’t that common,” she says.

Saddle sales – (Left to right): Today Tut Miladinovich, Susan Moss Find Moss Saddles, Boots and Tack at 4648 W. Yellowstone Highway in Mills Wyatt and Jerry Wyatt run Moss Saddles, Boots and Tack in Mills near or call 307-472-1872. Christy Martinez is managing editorLivestock of the Wyoming 24 Wyoming RoundupLiveCasper. Christy Martinez photo stock Roundup and can be reached at christy@wylr.net.

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Mecum’s prices start at $4,500 to build saddles.” for a basic saddle with minimal stamp Mecum and his wife Kathy worked ing and carving. He customizes everyfor the CM Ranch in Dubois for 15 years thing from the stamping/carving to the and have been cowboying for the Diasaddle horn size to the type of stirmond D Cattle Company intermittently Crowheart saddle maker strives for rups. Mecum built his first saddle with quality in every piece for the past 20. Mecum became interoversight from Bob Douglas of Sheriested in saddle making through his dan, and it took him over three weeks. desire to ride good saddles, and lookNow he does a roughout in a week, with ing at many of them through the lens of much better quality. how he could improve them.

“I try to build a saddle absolutely “Whenever I purchased a saddle of as fast as I can build it without makmy own, I could only think about how ing a mistake,” Mecum explains. “I’ve it should be different,” Mecum says. had saddles in shows where there was a “Once you start building saddles you contest and I’ve had judges tell me that find out how hard it is to make a perfect they couldn’t find a mistake. It is nice saddle. There are about 104 individual of them, but they just didn’t find it. It is pieces of leather that go into each sadhard to make a perfect saddle, but there dle, and there are about 10 things that is nothing wrong with trying.” can go wrong with each one of them. Every year something For seven years Mecum was a member of the Traditional else happens that I’ve never messed up before.”

Cowboy Arts Association (TCAA). To join, a new mem When the Mecums moved away from the CM, Steve ber must be voted in had enough clientele to begin making saddles full-time. He by 75 percent of the “I strive to make every found it hard to stay indoors and concentrate on leatherwork membership and cre- saddle quality. Even if in the summer, though. ate two museum-qual- someone is throwing “I jumped at the chance to run the cow camps for the ity pieces a year to Diamond D,” Mecum says. “They were having trouble exhibit at the National it in the back of their keeping people. As soon as they saw a wolf or a bear sit- Cowboy and Western truck and night calving ting on dead cow and they were supposed to run it off, they Heritage Museum in with it, the cantle binddidn’t like it. But I guess I’ve been around enough bears that Oklahoma City, Okla. ing still has to be sewn it doesn’t bother me, or I’m dumber.”

“It was an honor Mecum has built as many as 30 saddles in a year, but to be a part of it, but on straight.” with cowboying in the summer for the Diamond D he now also extremely stress– Steve Mecum, makes about a dozen each winter. For 10 years, Mecum ful, as you’re under a Crowheart saddle maker enjoyed a waiting list of over two years. The troubled econ- lot of deadlines and omy has lowered it to a steady one and a half. Mecum mainly pressure,” Mecum explains. “I did a lot of artistic saddles builds slick forks, as their popularity has grown, which he for TCAA and enjoyed it, but the saddles were mainly for attributes to natural horsemanship clinicians. rich people to display in their collections, and I didn’t like “Ray Hunt promoted quality horsemanship, and he was that. riding quality gear,” Mecum says. “Hunt traveled all over “My base price is expensive, but it’s still within reason for many people for a good saddle. It is nice to see a museum-quality saddle sell for $30,000, but I find it more Work space – Steve Mecum in his workshop gratifying to see one ridden every day. Whether I’m in the in Crowheart where he builds a dozen saddles annually when not out cowboying for the TCAA or not, it doesn’t change how I do things. I make Diamond D Cattle Company in the summer all my stitches straight and even, and the leather pieces fit months. Melissa Hemken photo tightly and line up exactly.”

Some customers have specific designs, while others choose from his patterns and a few allow Mecum free reign with the design. Smaller flowers increase the cost of a saddle, as they take longer to carve, while a basket weave stamp shortens the process and thus the price.

“I would like to make a saddle some day where every single open spot is carved,” Mecum says. “Everything from the gullet to the stirrup leathers, just to say I did it.”

Melissa Hemken is a correspondent for the Wyoming Livestock Roundup from Lander. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr.net.

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Learning to make a good bit was a longer learning process. I started with the basic ranch design, which was primarily influenced by cavalry bits. Those bits were designed to work on many different horses, not Tom Balding moves from just one horse. Even today, ranchers welder to maker want a bit that’s simple, strong and heridan – Tom Balding’s list functional, and can be used on several of customers includes famous different horses,” he says. rodeo names like Larry Mahan Today’s location and trainer Bob Avila, but it’s Wyo- Today, the workshop/store is located on Riverside Drive in ming ranchers the artisan credits with Sheridan, where Tom has been for 12 years. It’s a new building the inspiration behind his successful bit designed with the multiple small-room philosophy in mind, and and spur business today. there is a separate room for each step of the bit-making process.

“I grew up in California, and back in Balding employs six people, and all of the bit and spur making is the late 1970s I had a welding business, done on-site. They produce their own mouthpieces, rollers, shanks mainly welding specialty parts for both the aerospace and sail- and anything else they might need. boat industries,” Tom explains. “Where I lived, when I looked out All of the employees vote on bit design. my window, I could see a horse in a pen. One day, I looked at that “I’ll work on an idea, and we’ll vote on it. Once one of my horse and decided I wanted to ride him. I met the owner, who gave designs is accepted, we’ll do all the tooling needed for it. Then we me permission. I think I was on that horse less than five minutes will be able to make that bit forever,” explains Tom. when he bucked me off, but I was hooked on horses. As a kid, we It’s impressive as one wanders around the shop to see the used to come to Wyoming and camp. I loved it out here. I decided unique machinery. to move to Ucross in 1980 and work on ranches, “I got that on eBay, that at an auction,” Tom moving cattle, stacking hay and building fence “Even today, ranchers says, pointing to each piece of equipment.

– all of those ranch chores.” want a bit that’s simple, There is one narrow room with ceiling-high Tom was still using his welding skills while shelves holding small yellow bins containing he was ranching, primarily welding on trailers. strong and functional, every part imaginable for a bit. There is an area and can be used on sev- for making bit rollers, a station for engraving, The first bit “One day a lady knocked on my door and eral different horses.” and so on. He even has a photo booth set up to she had a broken bit; she knew I did welding, – Tom Balding, take perfect pictures of his products. and could I fix it. That night I looked around Tom admits the bits could be made for less Sheridan bit and spur maker at what scrap sailboat parts I had, and actually money if he “jobbed them out” (such as using made my first bit. When I got this idea of making bits, I called my a different company to make different bit parts), but he wants to brother and said I had this great idea, and that making bits would keep the jobs and money in Sheridan. Plus, this way he can guarbe ‘real easy.’ I really was wrong on that,” he laughs. antee their high quality.

He started asking for input from local ranchers about what Popular products qualities they liked in a good bit.

Tom’s hard work and creativity over the past 30 years has paid “So I then started making bits, but wasn’t sure how to go about off. He’s been featured in many publications, and his bits are popselling them. I decided to set up a table at a horse show in Gillette ular with many disciplines, including reining, reined cow horse and suddenly there were people lined up at my table wanting what and cutting. He’s even started a line of bits for polo players. His I had to sell,” he remembers. spurs and bits also ship to the European market, including France, The entrepreneur moved his business from Ucross to an area Germany and Italy, and he’s getting requests from Australia and outside of Sheridan. the Netherlands.

“I found an old mobile home that I dragged in as my work- Tom’s most recent coup is a feature in the series How It’s shop. I liked the fact there were several separate rooms to use, Made filmed by The Discovery Channel. The segment on spurs which made it a lot more comfortable than a big open space,” he will air on the Science Channel in the U.S. on June 21 at 9 p.m. says.

Rebecca Colnar Mott is correspondent for the Wyoming Live Tom says first he concentrated on producing spurs. stock Roundup from Sheridan. Send comments on this article to “They’re mechanical and it’s easy to understand their function. roundup@wylr.net.

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For the last 16 years Charlie has Promoting Angus beef called Torrington home, but before that he Speaking of his work with CAB, Charworked mostly in Texas, which gave him lie says it was his connection to Buck his chuckwagon roots and his early experiReams that got him started. ence.

“I cook with Buck Reams in Texas, and “I’ve always worked for big ranches, he’d done work for them, so they called me even before I got out of high school,” and asked if I’d do a job at Ashland, Kan., Charlie Ferguson keeps says Charlie. “All the big ranches pulled a where I cooked for a bunch of chefs from traditions alive chuckwagon, and as I got older I became Ritz Carlton as part of a beef promotion for interested in cooking and became good the hotel,” he explains. friends with the cooks. I’d ask questions and watch and learn, and Following that event, Charlie cooked at Longmont, Colo. they’d show me a trick or two.” for more chefs, and then traveled to Bend, Ore. Charlie says the After picking up some skills, Charlie says he started competing responses to meals cooked at the chuckwagon are usually surprised. in cooking contests at ranch rodeos.

“They can’t believe what they’re eating was prepared on the “I had a knack for it, and people started asking me to cook for premises,” he says. “When the chefs got off the bus in Kansas I them,” he says. “Now everybody knows me as a cook, where I used had my grate with coals under it and cooked the steaks in the open, to just be a cowboy.” and they had never seen steaks cooked like that. They have infrared In addition to cooking for burners that sear their steaks.” ranches, Charlie also does proCharlie says he brings mesmotions for Certified Angus quite wood from Texas to all Beef (CAB) and has worked the other locations where he for Pace Picante Sauce. He cooks. also caters, but he says, “I’m “The mesquite wood makes basically on a ranch in the midthe meat taste so much better dle of nowhere, on roundups.” than charcoal,” he notes.

Doing it ‘right’ Location schedule Although a few ranches To manage the many locastill pull chuckwagons because tions in which he works, Charof their novelty, Charlie says lie keeps a wagon in Texas he works for outfits that find a and one at Torrington. He says wagon essential. most ranches have a team to “They’re so far from town pull the wagon, and if not he there’s no way to pack a sack has one he can supply. lunch or run into town to eat.

Of the connections that Usually there are 20 guys Tradition – Torrington chuckwagon cook Charlie Ferguson strives to keep the keep him busy cooking for oven cooking tradition alive by using only traditional tool and methods. working, and we have all the Dutch most of the year, Charlie says Courtesy photo horses, men and food on locathey took a while to build. tion,” he comments. “The work is really efficient that way – much “Everybody knows me now, and my name’s out there now, and like a military operation.” if I can I’ll work them into my schedule. Around Christmas people Charlie says there are usually a few modern conveniences, but will call for spring work, and in mid-spring they’ll call me for the he cooks with a wood fire in Dutch ovens. fall,” he says.

“I try to do it as right as possible, without all the extras,” he Cooking in the future says. “One time I went to see my uncle, and we went to a restaurant Looking to the future, he says, “More than anything, I worry to eat, and I hadn’t sat at a table to eat in four about the newer generation, and the chuckmonths.”

“The food on a ranch can wagons and the way we work. The Western Food affects morale make or break morale.” way of life is beginning to fizzle out, and I Charlie’s favorite part of being the cook is hope that people will see that it’s still there, – Charlie Ferguson, and we still work like we used to. It’s still rollthe status a cook holds on a ranch. chuckwagon cook ing, and it’s still fun.”

“Being the cook, you have a lot of pull on the ranch; you’re second-in-command, Although he’s had a few people show interand people respect you,” he says. “The food on a ranch can make est in learning the art of chuckwagon cooking, Charlie says it’s not or break morale, and it’s rewarding when everyone enjoys a good for everyone. meal, especially after working hard all day.”

“A lot of people aren’t cut out for it. I get up at 3 a.m. The cook Charlie says he tries to vary his menus as much as possible. is the first one up and the last in bed, and they’ve got to keep things “If we’re out for two weeks, I do my best to have something rolling and always be ahead of the game. It’s hard work.” different for every meal. ‘Stew’ has gotten to be a cuss word on a For more information on Charlie Ferguson’s cookbooks or to ranch, because some people make stew for every meal. I try a lot of purchase one, call him at 307-532-0975. Christy Martinez is mandifferent things, and I’m always looking for different recipes,” he aging editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup and can be reached notes. at christy@wylr.net.

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heridan – “We do a lot of surgery here,” says Ted Vlahos of SherThe cutting edge idan Equine Hospital. “Everything that your horse might need, we When he’s not busy tending to patients, Vlahos keeps up on new techdo it at Sheridan Equine.” nology and the latest developments in equine medicine.

Vlahos’s passion for working with equine in his vet clinic has driven “When we aren’t working we are reading,” he says, “and we all attend the success of the business, as well as that of his a lot of meetings.” second equine hospital in Cody, and he is well “We do tackle hard cases Some of their research has revolved around helpknown for his work with artificial equine limbs. ing to ensure success in their prosthetics. that people wouldn’t othBack to the roots “As a group of patients, we have some challenges, Vlahos grew up in Ohio and attended The erwise do, or would give because, until very recently, a lot of the implants we Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio for his up on, and it’s worked were using were human implants, so they have a undergraduate and graduate work, as well as vet out pretty well for a lot of potential for failure,” explains Vlahos. “We now use school. plate system that has been around horses and for us. It’s fun.” aforscrew-locking With 24 years’ experience as an equine veterabout two years for horses.”

– Ted Vlahos, inarian, Vlahos comments, “It has been my pasThe new screws allow treatment of a wider range equine veterinarian of animals, including those with open or infected sion since my youth. It’s a huge privilege and gift to work with horses. I got my first horse when I fractures. In the past, infection would loosen screws, was 12 years old and that was it. There was no other leading to failure of the implant. option for me.”

“Infection is a huge deal in horses. Historically, if a He moved to Wyoming in 1997 to buy a veterinary horse had an open fracture, we would not be able to save clinic. them, but with some of the new implants we have a bet “I’d been coming to Wyoming since the early ‘90s ter chance,” he adds. to hunt and fish, and I just fell in love with Wyoming,” The next generation says Vlahos. “I thought, ‘My life is too short to not live On top of tackling hard cases, he also works to train here,’ so I came out and ended up building this facility.” young veterinarians by taking new graduates as interns.

His practice in Sheridan takes care of all needs of “We usually have one or two interns, and usually they horses and serves animals from around the country. stay a year,” he explains. “The profession has evolved, “We do a lot of orthopedics, fracture and arthrodesis, or fusion, sur- and, as cities have gotten bigger, horse populations have decreased and the geries,” he says. “We also do a lot of arthroscopic and colic surgeries, but ability to train students in the universities for horses has really declined.” we do all the routine stuff as well. We float teeth and dig out abscesses – As a result, private practices take new graduates and train them it’s not just specialty stuff.” in a hands-on environ He adds, “We also work with vets all over Wyoming.” ment. This year Megan Vlahos says that when other veterinarians have tough cases, he steps Hayden, an Auburn Vet up and accepts the challenge. Horses come from across the country for School graduate from Vlahos’s equine expertise.

Baton Rouge, La., has “We do tackle hard cases that people wouldn’t otherwise do, or joined the Sheridan would give up on, and it’s worked out pretty well for a lot of horses and Equine Hospital team. for us,” notes Vlahos. “It’s fun.”

“Meg is really World travels and tough cases sharp, and we are grate Vlahos started working with artificial limbs for horses almost 13 ful,” says Vlahos of his years ago when a horse came in that needed either an artificial leg or intern. “I tell all the euthanization. young vets that if you “I did my research on things that were being done and worked with absolutely love what two of my colleagues,” he says, speaking of the procedure for a pros- you are doing a quarter thetic surgery. “They walked me through my first one. It was great and century from now, that we have been doing them ever since. We do a couple every year.” is what you should be In January, Vlahos had the opportunity to tackle a tough case 8,000 doing,” miles from his hospital when a request for his services came from the Vlahos comments, south Asian country of Bhutan.

“We are just humble “We had a horse that got hit by a truck out there, and a lady found servants. There is nothout about us because of our work with artificial limbs,” Vlahos men- ing special about us, tions. “It was a big, bad open fracture on a back leg. There is no vet clinic other than we love what in the country that works on horses, so we brought basically our whole we do. It’s a blast.” hospital to Bhutan.”

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The statue was exquisite. The bust of the Quarter Horse was white, but the hair from the departed horse’s tail burned a unique, swiggly black design into the statue. Although the horse was gone forever, his owner would always have a piece of him to treasure every time he looked at the one-of-a-kind unique statute proudly displayed on the mantle.

Adele Young has been making these lasting mementos to give horse owners something from their horse to cherish forever.

“It keeps me really busy,” explains the Glenrock pottery artisan. “There are so many people out there who have had a horse in their lives for 25 years or more. When the horse is gone, it leaves such an empty space in their life. When I make them a piece of pottery with their own horse’s hair burned into it, it is a way they can have a lasting tribute to the animal in their life.”

A history in pottery Young has been making pottery of some form, and selling her work, since she was in high school. After deciding to make it more than a hobby, she has watched market trends and explored different ideas to keep her pottery marketable to the public.

“I didn’t want to just sell the same things all the time,” she says. “I had seen the horsehair pottery, but no one would tell me how to make it. I finally decided to cast a bunch of pots, “Horsehair is very sponand then I started firing them to figure out how to taneous, and it seems to do it on my own. I broke a lot of pots, but in the process I figured out a dependable firing sched- do what it wants to do.”

– Adele Young, ule. Since then, I haven’t had any breakage at all.” horsehair pottery artisan Young has found that creating horsehair pottery can burn if you’re not careful.

“I fire the pots in the kiln, and when the temperature is over 1,000 degrees I suit up with a respirator and welding gloves. I pull out the pot and have 90 seconds to put the horsehair on it. The horsehair will burn into the pot. After 90 seconds, the pot is too cool,” she says.

“Horsehair is very spontaneous, and it seems to do what it wants to do. I have very little control over the design it eventually takes. When I put the horsehair on the pot, it smells like a branding.”

Some of the most unique horsehair pottery Young has made is a series of Pony Express statues she made last year commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Pony Express.

“Several members of the Pony Express sent me a lock of their horses’ hair,” she says.

“It was usually a dearly departed horse, and one that was ridden in the Pony Express reenactment. I used the horsehair from the actual horse to make a statute to commemorate their horse.”

Pottery products Although many of Young’s creations are special orders, she also creates some of her own designs that she sells through her online store wyopotter.etsy.com. Her pottery takes the form of Christmas ornaments, pendants, pots, vases, lamps, rodeo and wildlife statues and cremation urns.

When clients request a custom order, they decide on which piece they would like her to make, and then they send in some hair if it is meant to be a memorial piece.

“I usually need enough hair about the size of a pencil in length and diameter,” she says.

“If it doesn’t take all of it, I send it back to them because I know that is all they have.”

In addition to horsehair, Young has also used bighorn sheep hair, wool, bison hair, sawdust and sugar.

“I like to experiment with different things,” she says. “But, I like to be able to hold the hair in my fingers so I don’t get burned when I put it on a 1,000-degree pot. I have used elk and antelope hair, but I usually burn my fingers when I do that.”

Young also makes custom functional pottery for the kitchen from salt and pepper shakers to plates, hand thrown pottery, sculpting and machine knitted hats, mittens, purses, afghans and stick horses. Some of her unique items can be found in the Mercantile stores during Cheyenne Frontier Days and the Wyoming State Fair.

Adele Young can be reached at 307-436-9857. Gayle Smith is a correspondent for the Wyoming Livestock Roundup from Wheatland. Send comments on this article to roundup@ wylr.net.

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ock Springs – According to Wyoming Horse Racing, LLC managing partner and Sweetwater Downs general manager Eugene Joyce, live horseracing is an important agribusiness in Wyoming, and he aims to continue to develop the sport in the state.

The year 2011 marked the first time there was a live race meet in Wyoming in two years, and Joyce says he feels it was successful, especially considering the fact that the Wyoming Pari-Mutuel Commission only licensed the races two months before the first two-day race meet at the end of August.

“We were really scrambling to get the word out, and to put together attractive purses,” he says, adding that their facility, Sweetwater Downs, hadn’t been used as a racetrack in 18 years. “We really focused on the racing surface, because our philosophy is ‘safety first.’ We renovated the entire surface and worked it diligently.”

The attention to detail paid off, and at the end of the meet neither the jockey ambulance nor the horse ambulance had been used.

The two weekends of races attracted 1,500 fans each day, and Joyce says they’re looking to build this year.

“I told the Wyoming Pari-Mutuel Commission that I wanted to bring long-term stability to horse racing in Wyoming, and to do that we’ll take a slow, reasoned approach and build from here,” he says.

“It went smoothly, especially for being put together on short notice,” says Wyoming Pari-Mutuel Commission Executive Director Charlie Moore of the 2011 meets. “Their business plan is that they want to keep improving and take baby steps, taking it slowly and methodically.”

Simulcasts fund race meets Joyce says another positive of 2011 was the $150,000 in purses that were paid out over the four days, and he hopes to increase that to $200,000 in 2012.

He explains that it’s the simulcasts around the state that provide the revenue for the horsemen, the state and for the operators and managers of the races. Currently Joyce manages six off-track betting locations in Wyoming.

“The way it should work is that there should be enough wagering activity in the state for us to make a profit and to have enough money to run a live race meet,” he explains. “At this point we anticipate making money in year three or four.”

Of the long timeline, he says, “I’m one of the guys who likes to take a slow and steady approach – under-promise and over-deliver. It will take a lot of hard work and effort to get us back to where we once were.”

“We attracted horses from the entire Intermountain West – Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and even from Los Alamitos in California,” he says of the horses that were 90 percent Quarter Horse and 10 percent Thoroughbred.

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Winner’s circle – In 2011 Shesnosecretary won the Bank of American Maiden Challege. Shesnosecretary is owned by Jorge and Judith Miranda, trained by Jorge Miranda and ridden by Rosendo Herrera. Alice Beasley, Eugene Joyce and Elizabeth Joyce hold the award blanket. Photo courtesy Harvey Phelps.

“All in all, from a standing jump-start, I think we have a lot of positives to build on. This year we’ll advertise and hustle for horses, and we’ll work with the local community to make this meet even better.”

The 2012 race meet dates are Aug. 18-19 and Sept. 1-2.

Bringing stability to the market Looking five years into the future, Joyce says he would like to see three or four race meets in the state at different locations, for a total of 15 to 30 race days.

“That will take a lot of doing,” he says. “We face competition from neighboring states, and there are less horses being bred in the “…we’re hoping the United States now than 10 years crowds will be bigger ago. But, we hope we can bring some stability back to the market, and the field sizes for so people with horses and stal- the races will be bigger, lions and broodmares can make and that we’ll have a decisions to breed horses, know- lot more purse money ing that there will be places to up for the horsemen.” race here in the state.”

– Eugene Joyce, “The race track brings a lot Wyoming Horse Racing to the table,” says Moore. “Especially for the people who were breeding racehorses two years ago, but are now turning them toward barrel racing or leaving mares open.”

Anticipating 2012 Of the 2012 meets, Joyce comments, “We’ve got a good partner in the Sweetwater Events Complex, and without their commitment we wouldn’t be here today. It is a nice facility, and we’re excited to be back there, and we’re hoping the crowds will be bigger and the field sizes for the races will be bigger, and that we’ll have a lot more purse money up for the horsemen.”

“The horse is an iconic symbol of who we are and what we value as citizens of Wyoming, and a healthy horse racing industry is like a manure spreader with money, and spreads it around, not only to the track operator and horsemen and breeders, but to the local communities where the horse racing activity takes place,” he concludes.

Christy Martinez is managing editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup and can be reached at christy@wylr.net.

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Partners – Vivian and Don Beard of Z Ranch Paint Horses. Courtesy photo

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World Show – “Don will be showing Casual Indulgence this year, and hopefully she will go to the APHA World Show, as well,” says Vivian Beard. Courtesy photo

heyenne – Past the traffic lights and the legacy of Cheyenne Frontier Days in the capitol city of Wyoming, an individual may eventually drive upon a small barn full of knowledge, success and Paint Horses.

The Z Ranch, owned and operated by Don and Vivian Beard, is located in Cheyenne, and Don and Vivian are more than husband and wife – they have been business partners in a Paint Horse ranch for the past 14 years.

During those 14 years of business, the Z Ranch has specialized in training Paint Horses for the show ring. Halter and all-around horse/rider have become the main focuses of Don and Vivian, and they provide their knowledge and training capabilities for open horses, amateur and youth exhibitors.

Over the course of their time with Paint Horses the duo has worked with over 20 Reserve World Champions and Reserve National Champions.

The Beards also breed Paint Horses, and the foals born at the Z Ranch are marketed according to their training. Each foal that leaves the operation has been trained by Don and Vivian.

On a typical year at the Z Ranch, Don and Vivian have seven horses under the roof of their barn. They currently house three horses for amateur clients as well as a few prospect horses of their own.

“We are running a small operation. Both of us have had large operations before, and where we are today we are able to manage everything on our own. Larger operations will need more employees,” says Don. Don and Vivian intend to keep the ranch small. By stay-

Paints celebrate 50 years In 2012 the American Paint Horse Association (APHA) is celebrating its 50th year of existence.

Prior to the founding of the association, the Paint horse breed was an outcast among the other breeds and was considered inferior to the Quarter Horse, because it was suggested that the more white a horse had the more flaws it also had. Rebecca Tyler Lockhart founded the APHA in 1962. Her endeavors started at her kitchen table that year, and 250 horses were registered in the APHA’s rookie year. Today the association has nearly one million registered Paint Horses.

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Horses – "As the horses improve, we want to keep improving," says Don Beard of Z Ranch Paint Horses near Cheyenne. Courtesy photo

ing small they intend to breed quality Paint Horses, and they are also focused on helping their clients reach their show ring goals.

“We will keep improving our stock. As the horses improve, we want to keep improving,” comments Don. Prior to running the Z Ranch, Vivian was a part of a 30-stall barn in southern California. Don has never left the Cheyenne area, but he contributed to a 20-stall barn. Although each of them was in different regions of the country, one aspect was very similar – their operations consisted of breeding World Champion and Reserve World Champion stallions.

Neither Don nor Vivian started their careers with Paint Horses. Each of them started out with Quarter Horses, and Vivian’s experience in the American Paint Horse Association (APHA) began when she started training Paint Horses for a friend.

“As I entered shows of the APHA, I realized that the “When you go to a Paint people in the APHA are very Horse show there are family-friendly, easy to get always friends around. along with, fun and competitive. We just continued down I can’t remember going the road from there,” says to a show and having a Vivian. bad time. It makes this “I started working with Paint Horses when a friend of the place to be. Beyond mine told me about some peo- the quality of horse, ple selling a broodmare that there are really good was bred to a Paint stallion. folks there,” I bought the mare, and never – Don Beard, looked back,” adds Don. Z Ranch Paint Horses Each of them found a passion for the APHA. To accompany the passion they had acquired for the Paint Horse breed and the association, they became leaders as well. The pair currently serves as national directors for the APHA as the National Director and the Alternate National Director representing the state of Wyoming.

Don is also able to judge for six associations.

“When you go to a Paint Horse show there are always friends around. I can’t remember going to a show and having a bad time. It makes this the place to be. Beyond the quality of horse, there are really good folks there,” says Don. Allie Leitza is an intern for the Wyoming Livestock Roundup from Pine Bluffs. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr.net.

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