What song would you want playing while you show?

Click on the link and keep an eye out for Joe Wolfe. He is the best, a good fella and a friend.
http://vimeo.com/7925984

Gladiators at QuarterFest 2009

Ohio Valley Reining Horse Association "Derby"

Visit the Threadventures website: http://www.threadventuresemb.com/

Visit the Ohio Valley Reining Horse Association website: http://www.ovrha.com/

Tennessee Miller Coliseum - April and May Calendar

April 2009

3-5
RV and Boat Super Show

Friday 1 p.m - 8 p.m.

Saturday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission: $4.00

Kids and parking FREE

Click here for discount

Visit the Odyssey website for more information

For vendor information call 941-827-7144

10-12
Southeast Horse Sale & Cutting Horse Show

Free admission

Professional Auction Services website

23-26
Intercollegiate National Finals

Visit the IHSA website for details

May 2009

April 30-May 3
QuarterFest (AQHA event)

Begins each day at 8 a.m.

Admission is charged

Click here to Buy Tickets
Visit AQHA QurterFest Homepage for more information and schedule of events.

8-10
Lucky 7 Quarter Horse Show

Free admission

Event schedule here

Visit the TQHA website here

22-24
Volunteer Ranch Horse Show

Free admission

ARHA website

29-31
Tennessean Dressage Horse Show

Free admission

CTDA website

Road to the Horse 2009 - part 2

Arcese Quarter Horses USA reach a milestone

Arcese Quarter Horses USA, of Weatherford, TX, became NRHA's third Million Dollar Owner with horses surpassing the million-dollar mark with earnings accumulated at the 2008 Italian Futurity and 2008 NRHA Futurity & NAAC Show.

Read more HERE.

Taking the horses out for a trail ride

Mike and Shawn Flarida were both #1 at the horse show

They had the same score and decided to flip a coin to see who would be the champ. Great moment at the show and a great family moment. They both had amazing rides.

A rider at the Clayton Woosley reining horse show

Scenes from the Clayton Woosley reining horse show

Threadventures and Webbspun Ideas are going to Lexington for a horse show

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July 25 - 27
We'll be setting up at the Clayton Woosley Hall of Fame Reining and Brownwood Farm Derby in Lexington KY. Be sure to stop in, say hi and check out the goods.
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Some examples of the quality of work below and visit the website to learn more:


Custom Clothing


Your Logo on a Hat
logo designing with rhinestonesor plain embroidery


Custom Halters
have the name of your horse embroidered across the nose band of your halter, or let us know about your award needs!

Many more custom graphics and embroidery are available from Threadventures.

"Chuck Waggon" talks about horse racing

Some great horse related stories in the paper today

The gelding we nicknamed Big Brown, in honor of the Kentucky Derby winner, loped off to the far corner of the arena as if he were looking for a place to hide. I exchanged frustrated frowns with my teammate, Shanda Steenburn, a tall, curly-haired nurse and hospital pharmacy manager.

We were participating in an introductory exercise at the Horse Institute in Ancramdale, N.Y. Our assignment was to catch Big Brown, slip a halter over his head and hook him to a lead line.

Our seemingly simple task was proving to be more daunting than either of us had expected. Shanda knew a lot about handling medications for humans but next to nothing about handling horses.

My previous experience with horses was limited and not especially pleasant. I’d taken fewer than a dozen riding lessons during my youth in Texas. The last time I’d been on a horse as an adult, I’d suffered a back injury that took three months to heal.

To make matters worse, Big Brown shared the arena with three other very large and very wary steeds: a white one, a second brown one and one with a mottled brown and white coat, a breed called a paint. Three pairs of nurses who worked with Shanda at Columbia Memorial Hospital in nearby Hudson, N.Y., were simultaneously trying to catch and halter those horses. But instead of cooperating, the paint, the white and the second brown kept darting away and huddling with Big Brown.

Suddenly, Big Brown separated from the herd and walked toward me. I patted his neck and stroked his face, cooing sweet nothings in his ear for at least a minute. Shanda handed me a halter. As if on cue, Big Brown bolted away again.

Read the entire story HERE.


A thoroughbred named Tchaikovsky, a grandson of Secretariat, was having a tooth pulled in one stall. A horse in another was given a sponge bath. Out the stable door, about a dozen horses shared a sun-lit field.

Somewhere, far out of sight if not entirely out of mind, countless other former racehorses were on their way to being slaughtered.

“I struggle with it,” Diana Koebel said. She is the owner and trainer here at LumberJack Farm, one of hundreds of horse farms around the country helping rescue and rehabilitate thoroughbreds considered too slow or damaged to be worth anything more than horse meat. The rescuers cannot keep up.

“Are we really helping?” Koebel asked as she stood in a stable stall. “I know we are, and every one counts, but it’s overwhelming at points. Can we really fix this industry?”

LumberJack Farm works with a nonprofit organization called ReRun, which prepares discarded racehorses for a second career — as jumping show horses, maybe, or just as pets — and then makes them available for adoption. ReRun annually places about 40 thoroughbreds once destined for the slaughterhouse.

Read the entire story HERE.

Weasel and the Witch

Horses in the pasture

The horses had a date with the dentist

Here are some pictures of Jim Koostra, of EquiDental International, working on the horses teeth. It was quite the adventure but he really knew how to take care of the horses and keep them calm and he talked to them the whole time, just like any good dentist would.

It just makes me glad that I can sit down when I go to the dentist as opposed to standing with my head on a pad.










A girl and her horse

American Ranch Horse Association show in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; February 2-3

February 2 & 3, 2008
9:00am
VOLRHA Tour Around Tennessee
MTSU Livestock Arena, Murfreesboro, TN
615-397-6754 or 615-417-4253
tangostat@hotmail.com

Visit American Ranch Horse Association to learn more.

Tennessee Reining Horse Shows in 2008

2008 Calendar of Events

April 25-27 – NRHA/TNRHA Approved Show, Harriman, TN
July 12-13 – NRHA/TNRHA Approved Show, Harriman, TN
August 9-10 – NRHA/TNRHA Approved Show, Harriman, TN
October 17-19 – NRHA/TNRHA Approved Show, Murfreesboro, TN

Pictures of the Horses

Chuck and the Witch


Weasel and the Witch sharing some gossip


The "lil guy" looking for some attention


Here comes the Weasel

I took the pictures with Andrea's camera.

Travel Kit for Reiners

Picture courtesy of Andrea

Spare trailer tire, jack, lug wrench, flashlight, road distress kit.

Horse papers, health certs, coggins, map, reservation confirmation, show premium.

Feed, supplements, feed buckets, water buckets, chains and snaps for buckets, hay bags. Stall cleaning fork, rake, tub, and cart. Clamp lights, box fan, extension cords, fasteners for all shapes and sizes of stalls to hook up. Tack cleaning type hook, snap, and chain. Ladder to put up all. Staple gun and staples for any stall curtains or decorations. Two by fours if metal stalls. Tool box with every tool that can be fit in there. Bicycle.

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Did I mention taking the dogs? and their beds, kennels, food, bowls, leashes, toys...

Oh, and what about my show clothes? straw hat, felt hat, everyday clothes, toiletries, rain outfits, snow outfits...

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It starts to make me tired, oh yeah, COFFEE and maker. BEER and CHEEZITS, lots of bottled WATER. Cups, paper towels, corkscrew, baggies, SLIMFAST, fruit, nuts, jerky, sugar free hard candies. Red licorice...


Read the entire list at the Practical Guide to Reining blog and be amazed at the process and what is needed for a show.