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If you would like to get something done with your horse, here's the deal. I've spent 30 years working on ranches all over the west. Like most folks, I want a horse that is gentle and handy. I've found that when I make a ranch horse, you can take it and go on to do whatever you want. The horses I've started or worked with have gone on to such disciplines as 3-Day Eventing, Dressage, and Polo. All of them make fine trail horses. Some have even been used as ranch horses! My point is that the key to an enjoyable ride, no matter the discipline, is a solid foundation. Here are some options to get started on the road to building that foundation using principles that give the horse credit for being able to do the right thing so that the horse and rider can enjoy a trusting relationship.


These four fillies have 10 rides on them. They are Hancock/Driftwood fillies from the Bar Shoe H Livestock in Colbert, Georgia.
 

Horses In Training

I take horses to train at our place in Beowawe, NV. We are surrounded by half a million acres of BLM land. Most of the training takes place outside. I can trot for miles without ever seeing a fence. This is good for the mind of the horse and the confidence of the rider. If you send me your horse, it's a 60 day minimum with you participating at the finish. My specialty is transitioning an older horse to a bridle. The cost is $700/month. Now accepting deposits for October 1st, 2009.


Nugget is an 7-year old gelding that made the transition from snaffle to the bridle.

 


Left to right: Marge Ford, Enrique Loperena, Enrique Loperena Jr., and Pat Puckett branding longhorn cattle in Janesville, CA.

 

 

Colt Starting

You can bring your colt to our place and stay 5 days. When we're done, you'll be loping outside on a loose rein. All colts get sacked out, roped, hobbled, loaded, worked on the ground, and accustomed to having a rope swung off of them.

 

Horsemanship

If you want to improve your communication with your horse, there are several choices:

 

If you want to make a bridle horse, we can make a plan and get a good start on it.

 

Roping

I can teach you how to rope colts so you can start them right or we can work on ranch roping.

 

 

Everything I've mentioned can happen at our place or yours. We can put together a custom clinic covering one topic or a combination of several topics. It all depends on your goals and what you'd like to accomplish. I've put together a sample of what a clinic schedule could look like...

Friday - Private Lessons
Saturday - AM: Groundwork, PM: Horsemanship
Sunday - Ranch Roping
 

 

Price List

 

Beowawe, NV (pronounced bay-0--wah-wee, ne-va-da) - If you come to our place, the cost is $200/person/day. That price includes your meals, corral or turn-out for your horse, all the instructionyou can stand, and a half million acres of Northern Nevada desert to ride on.

On the road, we charge the following:

 

You can schedule 6 people per day for private lessons. This is a nice way to start out a three-day clinic and gives people a chance to address specific problems in a one-on-one situation. I like- to limit clinics to 8-10 riders so that riders aren't running into each other and everybody can get plenty of attention. The important thing for me, as a teacher, is that everybody comes away with the feeling that their time and money has been well spent.

 

 

 

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