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WHR Summer 2008 News

Dear Friends,

ummer is well on its way and we are just coming up for air! After arriving back from Arizona to the Home Ranch in Oregon May 13th, we jumped in full swing getting the place in order, unpacking and preparing the ranch for our spring training sessions and horse client visits. Check out our recap of the May & June Classes and WHR Grapevine News below!

Heading to Wyoming Cattle Ranch for Summer Riding…

s June closes, and the July temperatures rise here in Eagle Valley, we are heading to the higher, cooler country of western Wyoming for a month or so, staying some 30 miles out of Daniel at the upper summer range of the Grindstone Cattle Company. We are taking several geldings that we’ll be riding on the ranch daily, getting in lots of mile seeing plenty of cattle and schooling them into the full bridle. If you are trying to reach us about schools or horses please just leave word on our answering machine at 541-893-6535 and we’ll be checking messages every couple days. Till then, Happy Trails….

Fall Schedule…
FFF Course Scheduled with Return Riders Round-Up Extravaganza!...

his is a chance to broaden your horizons and come for a full 10 days and get in on our Return Riders get together where we practice FFF training, get one –on –one help on personal goals, head for the mountains for some awesome back country trail riding & training exposure and work cattle as well! The first week September 3- 9th is the regular - From Foundation to Finished Course with a break day in which our Return Riders arrive, and one can stay on for the Return Riders Extravaganza September 11-14th. Call Beverly for Details at 541-893-6535 Last years Round-Up was a huge success, we pick right up where you left off and move you further in your quest for refinement…call a friend you met at the Ranch and ya’ all come! If you would like e-mail addresses or phone numbers of your fellow horsemanship classmates call Bonnie at 800-987-7875

Summer String of Geldings!!!...

lways keep a check out for our new geldings offered for sale. As time passes, we are sliming our herd down to just a hand full of good ones. It has been Wil’s goal

for years and as it is just the two of us now, and we still like to have our special “touch” and signature of approval on them, we find that fewer is better for us. Check out our website Horse Page for a listing of these premium geldings. We have a rainbow of colors presently… a palomino, bay, red dun, black, grey & a couple sorrels, some with alot of chrome and a flashy black & white paint!

Other Wil Howe geldings, not yet posted… a 16 hand, 8 yr, Jet Black with four high stockings and a blaze face. .. City Slicker looking deluxe trail, ranch & rope horse, and one who’s been on the back burner a year, ready at the end of this summer….a 6 yr 14.3 hand, truly a “one of a kind”! stocking legged sorrel reining cow horse … gentle, super special, all around deluxe model. Just a teaser …
call us for an appointment 541-893-6535. DVD’s available on most horses.

Wil Howe Ranch Training Tack at Huckleberry’s Line Shack.com.…

e have been blessed with Dary Reed taking over our retail line of items and taking care of the online part of our tack business. Recently he added some beautiful high quality cinchas that really are a nice addition to one’s cowboy gear, also we now have some handsome new saddle blankets at a new great price. Treat yourself and give your horse the added good looks and comfort of one of these 100% wool saddle blankets!

e sure to give Dary Reed a call, he’ll answer any of your tack & training related questions and will help you outfit your horse with just the right gear for getting started or finishing a horse through our program. Dary will make sure you are on track in your progression From Foundation to Finished, offering our full line of tack and DVD’s. If you are Trail Riding this summer check out our Hobbles, Trail Halter , Get Down Ropes & Bridles. Etc. To Order call Dary at 509-952-3188 or go right to our
Tack Page.

Note: Dary’s number is a cell phone and can be reached almost anytime. He always returns his calls ASAP, so do leave a message! He promptly ships tack orders weekly.

2008 Oregon Home Ranch School Session ReCap….

Our Trail Riders Horsemanship School, May 14-21 we had some folks here from Washington State and as far away as Texas! Great group and we had super cool spring weather and sunshine to boot! An awesome day ride in the mountains made the week memorable for the students who’s horses progressed as well as the riders confidence and techniques of handling the back country terrain trail navigation. Then June 1-7th we had great group of guys show up for our From Foundation to Finished class. It was a “all men’s class” which Wil thoroughly enjoyed as he always lays low for Beverly’s all women’s class later in June. Three guys were a father & two sons from Boston, MA, the older son’s horsemanship & rodeo coach from Arizona attended also as well as another horseman from western Colorado. Karl the youngest proved to be the best of the bunch at 12 yrs old. Small for his age, but has been showing horses for the past few years, this youngster made all the adults shape up! Superb hands, timing and feel, shown here below. We let him work with our new addition to the ranch… “Petunia” a now, 3yr Mini…and yes a filly!


Our New WHR Mascot …”Petunia”

e acquired “Petunia” last fall,… Wil is a sucker for a cutie like her and it has been 8 years since Mayflower, our last mini died. She is truly a comical addition to the family. Petunia rode to and back from Arizona in the gooseneck trailer under the geldings, no problem and they all love her! Wil is quite empowered by being able to “man-handle “ this little horse,… as a joke of course! She is quite a pistol, ball of fire and is no “little horse” in her mind!

everly’s Annual Ladies Only Practical Horsemanship Course went off well attended again this year June 18-24. We had women from Washington, California, Illinois, North Carolina, Oregon and Idaho. Two were lucky enough to find a match, bonding up with the horse for their needs & dreams! One had been to our Ladies class earlier this year in AZ and the other’s husband attended our class in Arizona four years ago and purchased a horse then! So now that his wife is up to speed, now she has a Wil Howe horse too! Congratulations Kristin Sorani, Rogue River, Oregon, and Alison Macko, Lewisville, NC on your new horses.
For more info on Beverly's Ladies Only Practical Horsemanhip Classes
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very time we get people together with good horses, good information and instruction... great things happen and lives are changed! A week with us will change your outlook on horses and give you the tools to make a positive relationship with your horse a possibility. We highly encourage this in your quest for better results with your horse or trying to start a-new with a new mount from us.

WHR Grapevine News!

“Zane Grey” Still Impressing Owner!
We recently received a letter from Jerry Flynt of Ketchum Idaho, who purchased the handsome grey gelding, “Zane Grey” that Beverly rode in
Wil’s FFF Video #3, “Beyond the Snaffle Bit”. He bought him back in 1997. It’s always a treat when we get feedback from former clients and their WH gelding stories.

”I am still riding Zane. You sold him to us when he was 5; he is now 16. Wil, everything you told me about Zane was true. He helped me be a better rider and he is extremely well trained. Every once and a while a friend who is a good rider gets on Zane. In short order Zane starts operating like the really good horse he is. He suffers me and waits for the right cue so he can do the right thing. Buying Zane was one of my better decisions.
Thanks for everything. Jerry”

Versatility or what??? …Congratulations Wendy & John Hughes & “Cash”!

at’s off to great geldings, well trained and ready for any job… that’ll be a Wil Howe gelding. Wendy & John Hughes from upstate, NY are enjoying “Cash”, a 7 yr AQHA old gelding they purchased from us in February. Wendy reports “He has done everything we’ve asked… we love him!” Here above he’s shown with John, who professionally ponies race horses at the tracks, warming up for working at a a steeplechase race, along with Wendy & Cash at their first 3-Day Event Show ( Dressage, Cross country & stadium Jumping), where they placed 1st in the Cross Country portion and 2nd overall in the Elementary Division. Way to go… broke is broke…for any event!

Wil’s First Cutting Horse Passes…

nother grand horse in our life was ”I’m Country Cutter”. We bought him in January of 1981 as a coming 4 year old. He had just won the Oregon Cutting Horse Asso. Non Pro Futurity and soon became Wil’s very first cutting horse and Beverly trained and showed him in Western Pleasure classes as well. “Cutter” was a real “one of kind”… gorgeous eyes, beautiful to look at; big boned, perfect and correct, and a huge hip, long pencil neck and tiny ears, great mind, super cowhorse. In 1977 he was the Pacific Coast (CA) QH Asso. Champion Yearling Halter horse. He was built and could ride! Our vet at the time said he was built of perfect constitution and should live a long and healthy, sound life…. and that he did…32 years!


"Country Cutter” at 32 years, still showing his handsome,
muscled stature & at 5 yrs old with Beverly in 1982.

e sold “I’m Country Cutter” 3 times in those 32 years, our good friend, Stan St Jeor of Grand Coulee WA, (whom attended Wil’s first clinic back in 1983), bought Cutter through us back in 1987 and owned him 14 wonderful years in which he, ranch rode him, sorted and branded and made many a packing in hunting trips with Cutter until 6 years ago. In 2001, at age 25, Stan wanted to retire him, he called us. We found a great retirement home for “Cutter” as a baby-sitter for the grandkids of Bill Owens from Philadelphia, PA ( Bill has bought a total of 6 Wil Howe geldings from us, 2 most recently last year). Bill’s good friend, Jeanie Grey has been his sole caregiver for the past 6 years. She just recently had sent these pictures in May of “Cutter” at the grand old age of 32, still showing his well muscled stature and kind eyes, then Jeanie wrote to tell us he passed away June 28th. Bless “Country Cutter’s”: heart. He was “one in a million’ and a gift to all of us who were blessed by being a part of his life.

e commend Jeanie and her great care she gave him as well as 3 of Bill’s other WH geldings Zack, in his late teens, Blue, now 21 and Dewey,11 years old (the half Belgium Quarter cross ). Time flies when you have a great horse!

Please share with us your stories and successes with your horse ventures and path to refined horsemanship accomplishments.

emember we are stewards, guardians, leaders and companions to these wonderful creatures. Respect the responsibility of this relationship, and pursue a path of knowledge to enhance and broaden your horsemanship horizons… We are here anytime to lend a hand in your quest.. it is all about priorities.

Have a blessed and wonderful month of July and we look forward
to seeing you all this fall… don’t be left out… sign up now!!!

Happy, Safe Trails & Turn- Arounds
Beverly & Wil
& the WHR Crew… Dary, Pauline & Bonnie

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