Tabitha Smith Reining, Working Cow Horse, Cutting Quarter Horses. Breeding horses out of own daughters of GREATS such as Smart Little Lena, Smart Chic Olena, Bodee Boonsmal, Haides Little Pep, Reminic, Gallo Del Cielo, Peppy Boy 895, CD Olena, Teninolena Badger, Major Vaquero, Lance Jones, Bueno Fritzinic, and CD O Cody just to name a few.
THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS to Alan and Pam Kline of Mountain Home ID on the purchase of this nice gelding. You got yourself a great, very honest, talented young gelding. I look forward to seeing what you all do with him. Plumb Reminic 2007 Bay AQHA Gelding SOLD Take a look at this nice gelding. "Plumb" has been used on the ranch excessively and knows his job. This summer was spent … [Read more...]
Clayton and Sabrina Stadnyk are the owners of Coyote Ridge Ranch Performance Horses in Manitoba Canada. They not only raise top notch cutting, ranch, reining and working cow horses but they are also top "hands" when it comes to training their quality prospects and finished horses. Be sure to check them out at Coyote Ridge Ranch for some super nice horses for sale and be sure to check out some … [Read more...]
Pretty cool video of Rick out tagging some black bears in Canada. … [Read more...]
This is an article submitted to a 1999 Louisville Sentinel contest to find out who had the wildest Christmas dinners. It won first prize. As a joke, my brother Jay used to hang a pair of panty hose over his fireplace before Christmas. He said all he wanted was for Santa to fill them. What they say about Santa checking the list twice must be true because every Christmas morning, although … [Read more...]
Ima Smoke N Sayo is on his way home as I write this from spending two month in getting a great foundation at the Almosta Ranch with Al Dunning. I am excited to get this boy home and spend the rest of his two year old year working on getting him ready for the futurities next year and seeing what he can do. Thank you to Jade Keller and Cody Lamont who are top hands at the Almosta Ranch and who … [Read more...]
THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JOSEPH JONES OF IDAHO ON THE PURCHASE OF THIS NICE MARE. I wish you the best of luck with her and her 2012 foal out of Little Shining Sun You can travel the globe looking for a well trained daughter of Haidas Little Pep who is out of a money producing daughter of Smart Chic Olena and IF you can find one, she probably won't be as pretty and/or as nice to be … [Read more...]
Ever have problems with your spin? I just love a nice turn around on my horses but along the way of getting to the perfect turn around I have at times ran into some problems and thought you all might get some use out of the drills I used to fix the problems that I have ran into. The Problem 1. If your horse has a very clean turn around (front is correct and he is stepping clean) but … [Read more...]
Come tuesday morning (mind you at 6am) I was on the road to spend three days at the SHOT Show hosted at the Sands Expo Convention Center in Las Vegas Nevada. The SHOT Show (Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show) is a "gear nuts" dream. Everything from hunting gear to full fletched army equipment. Endless booth, endless products, endless opportunity......endless tired/ feet. All in all it was a … [Read more...]
Sired by the great stallion Nu Cash it is no supprise that Nu Chex to Cash followed in the hoof prints of his sire. There is so much to say for a solid pedigree of great horses to produce a great horse. Nu Cash is not only a NRHCA Million Dollar Sire but is the only NRCHA Open Snaffle Bit Futurity Champion that sired three Open Snaffle bit Futurity Champions. Nu Cash was the NRCHA Open … [Read more...]
Busy Winin Chex2007 Cremello AQHA StallionHere is a great young son of the phenomenal sire Nu Chex To Cash. He has had very limited showing but has NRHA earnings of over $5,000 as well as AQHA Points and will continue to be campaigned by Hilldale Farms. This stallion offers the whole package of outstanding breeding, flawless conformation with one of the prettiest heads there is and a color … [Read more...]
According to Wikipedia DISPOSITION is a habit, a preparation, a state of readiness, or a tendency to act in a specified way. So in a matter of logical thinking a good disposition should be a good habit, a good preparation, a good state of readiness, or a good tendency to act in a specified way. In the horse industry you hear the term "good disposition" used way more then bad disposition cause … [Read more...]
I am not sure who the author is of this but it is to great not to share. POOR PEOPLE ? One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, … [Read more...]
Here she is the cute little girl....a daughter of the GREAT Colonels Smoking Gun (GUNNER) and out of our very ownGoldies Doc Nic. We sure expect great things from this girl and will be watching for her in the future at the big events. … [Read more...]
I know I know....I am a bit behind in my blogging but I have a good excuse....I am in Arizona and life is wonderful and there are a lot more fun things to do then to sit on the computer. It never fails....there is no better feeling then waking up at the Almosta Ranch in Rio Verde Arizona. However yesterday morning when I woke up it was the sound of rain that woke me. As I am laying there I am … [Read more...]
Let the road trip begin. We loaded up early sunday morning and took off on our road trip to Arizona….land of warmth and sunshine. Triston and Keeley are both along for this trip along with Zoe(toy aussie female), Sage (old border collie female) and of course no road trip is complete without Bazi (the loyal Winer Dog). The kids are pretty excited about getting to head to Arizona and Keeley … [Read more...]
My post earlier this week "Horse Slaughter"drew a lot attention with a lot of different comments that I really enjoyed reading. Even though this topics brings opinions, feelings and emotions all across the board I was surprised at the number of people that understood what I was trying to say and were neither offended it or against it. There were a lot of neat stories shared and a lot great points … [Read more...]
Once again the horse slaughter in the United States is legal......wow this has stirred up a whole lot of emotions in a HUGE amount of people. This is a topic that some will not touch but as I generally tend to speak my mind wether asked to or not I might as well add my 10 cents to the already burning fire. For those of you who do not already know me here is just a little background. I … [Read more...]
In the photo from front to back are I Sayo Ur Bueno, Cromed Up Groucho, Cowboys Fisty Pep. Oh the importance of teaching your weanlings patience!!! So now that the babies have sent some quality time attached to the donkey and have gotten the idea of giving to pressure on to step two…..quality time at the fence. I might not have a ton of time to work with my babies every day but catching … [Read more...]
I would like to ask for everybody's help. Keeping our mares, stallions, geldings and of course our babies healthy is such an important matter that I am going to start doing a blog post once a week about equine health. I have a appointment set with my vet and we are going to do 52 blog posts/videos about 52 different topics. This is where I need your help....please toss some ideas my way about … [Read more...]
I want to invite you to join me through the next blog posts of "Working with your weanling at TS Quarter Horses." I thought I would share with you what I do with my weanlings from the time they are weaned. We are going to cover everything from the actual separation of mom to hoof care, feed and the first training sessions in the round pen. So join me for the next few weeks and follow along. I … [Read more...]
