NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!
2007 was a very busy year for us! We made as many USTRC ropings as we could and I was lucky enough the win a #8 shootout and go to the finals at OKCity. It was my first trip and a real eye-opening experience. Blake ended up staying home due to some other commitments, so I sweet-talked my sister Kathy into going with me and we had a pretty good time. Didn't get anything done in the roping, but I plan on being back next year to try it again. Blake is going start heading more, so I might have to break out my tied-off rig and do some heeling. We both attended the Bobby Hurley roping school at Hurley arena in December and picked up some pointers that will really help us if we can just remember it all!
Blake coached soccer again this year and had a good season. All three boys played, but Dakota and Carson were on the same team so he only coached two different teams. Carson's first year of football was a good one, he's a lineman and did real well at it. Dakota is the reigning (it was actually a 3-way tie for first) chess champion and is concentrating on basketball and academics. Remington has finally decided he wants to ride horses, so I'm ecstatic and looking forward to the 2008 riding season.
There's a brand-new hobby on the horizon for us..... RANCH RACING...... It is geared along the same lines as the extreme trail stuff with everything from ponds to rocking bridges to hanging tarps and some pretty big terraces. Basically, the stuff we've been doing on our trail and town rides for years - we just never had a name for it! I went to my first one in October and it didn't take me long to get hooked! Ended up placing second in the open competition on our stallion (click to see the TRAIL portion or the OPEN portion) There was another in November, and we managed to grab another second place (considering the hash we made of the maze, I'm sure it was by the hair of his chinny-chin-chin LOL. Blake missed both of them due to soccer games, but he's eager to start doing some too. I'm hoping we can get the boys interested in it. Just the two times I've been, there have been some of the nicest people you could hope to meet, and some pretty darn well-trained horses to boot!
Now that we're well into 2008, we have young stuff coming on and they are some good ones. Can't keep them all, however, so check the sale page to see what we have offered up for sale. We've expanded the sale page to include some outsided horses belonging to friends we rope with, so there's usually a few more finished rope horses available.
God Bless, good luck, and have a wonderful year!
Jeanne, Blake, Dakota, Carson, and Remington
