And the winners of the Paisley Big Loop Roping are: JOSH PROM AND CHARLIE SMIT...against some of the toughest competition I've seen in all my travels. Happened to talk with master rawhide braider Bill Black just after I found out today and he was really proud of Josh and Charlie...he's known Charlie since he was a little kid when he and Charlies dad, Mike Smit, buckarooed together at the old Roaring Springs. Josh certainly is having a better week than he did two weeks ago when he got mashed (and knocked cold) by a ranch saddle bronc (see photos below). Second place went to Cleve Anseth and Ed Dunlap. Cleve organized the event this year and he did a fabulous job. It was a great event with 145 horse ropers and 110 muley ropers!!! Once again the donation of the gorgeous silver concho bits by Scott and Staci Grosskopf, Buckaroo Businesses was the frosting on the cake of all of Cleve's hard work. Pictures of the winners below right.
Please bear with me.....I'm so far behind! It's a struggle to go through thousands of photos and delete the bad ones, and if needed fix the color, and crop and rotate them so the horizon line is correct. Each shoot I take usually 3000-5000, sometimes up to 8000 photos. I try to edit each sub-folder from about 1000 photos down to 250-300. Hopefully you don't think I still have too many photos.....sigh.....my brain is fried from having to make so many decisions. All that being said I have finished McDermitt but not uploaded the last folder because I am going to sneak in Joe Flynn Branding photos first as a magazine is looking for a cover photo and I would like them to see those right away. I have started processing Burns (Harney Ranch Rodeo), then I'll do the Yamsi Traditional Ranch Roping and the Paisley Big Loop roping. Surprisingly, the smoke haze from the big California fires is making all of these photos better.....the smoke does something to the light that enhances it...so even though my eyes sting and my throat hurts it's good for the photos!!!
I got this neat email today which I would like to share with evryone....this is great!!!!
Mary, my name is Rich Rice, I am on the executive committee for the working ranch horse program in Idaho. I love your website, and thought I would drop you a line to tell you about our wonderful program. The program started 4 years ago through the District 2 Idaho youth horse council and is geared toward preserving our Great Basin Buckaroo heritage. It is an all volunteer program of dedicated adults who take the time one weekend a month to teach the traditional ways of ranching. From working cattle ,horsemanship, knot tying, roping, medical treatment and health etc... Since its beginning 4 years ago we have grown from 30-40 kids to well over 100. We are very proud of this program, and the surprisingly popularity of it with the youth of Southern Idaho. Recently we participated in an event which every year celebrates the 'roots' of the town of Murphey, Idaho. I have enclosed a link to the Audio and pictorial article from the Idaho Statesman news paper.http://legacy.idahostatesman.com/media/2008/horseproject/
Please take the time to watch it, for it showcases our program so well. We are also proud to have AQHA asked us to do a rodear and 'mini clinic' for the regional experience in Nampa, Idaho on the 22nd of July. That was a huge step for our little program as far as exposure to folks who don't know what a Buckaroo is, let alone what they do. That is the purpose of this e-mail to inform people about what the youth here in Idaho are doing, a positive program that will leave them with memories of a lifetime.
I want to thank you for your awesome web site, and the time it took you to read my longwinded e-mail. feel free to drop me a line if you would like more info on our program. idahobuckaroo@hotmail.com
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Pictured above...my horse Rio in the 2-Rein. For his first year and a half he ran with his mother and hundreds of other wild horses on my uncle's wild horse sanctuary in South Dakota. He's half mustang, 1/4 Sugar Bars QH, and 1/4 Northern Dancer thoroughbred. He's a big, stout boy with a nice running walk, big platter hooves, strong bone and he always knows where his feet are.
To learn more about buckaroo traditions click here
In a perfect world horses would all be trained the old traditional vaquero way which factored in the impact to young horse's bodies of too much, too soon. Years ago, horses were not started until they were 5-6 years old. Nowadays, with so much pressure to start horses at 2 years old, the old ways have been adapted so that 2 year olds are just lightly ridden to prevent damage to growing bones and joints. This is in contrast to modern training where many young show horses are started at two years old and rammed and jammed during their formative years ending up physically and emotionally ruined by five years old. Most modern horses are started in a snaffle bit, and are often ridden their entire lives that way. The old way is to start a horse in a snaffle bit or start the horse right from the gitgo in a hackamore, making sure that , especially thru the fourth year, when the horses' teeth are in transition, that the horse's sensitive mouth is protected by going bitless with the hackamore. At the beginning of the fifth year, the horse's teeth are full size and now there is a good environment for him/her to start packing a bit using a "2-rein ." Control is still with a small hackamore, but the young horse can carry the bit and get used to it for another year to year and a half before he gradually transitions to "straight up" in the bridle. Everything is done slowly during this time as a solid foundation is carefully built physically and emotionally for the horse. The ultimate goal is to put the horse into a spade "signal" bit but not many horsemen know how to do this anymore! This process, along with traditional vaquero training techniques, results in the highest level of harmony and communication with the horse that can be achieved in ranch riding. These old vaquero traditions are not seen much anymore except throughout the Great Basin!!! If you are interested in learning more, check out the resources on my links page or attend clinics by master vaquero style horsemen like Richard Caldwell and Mike Bridges. Next Yamsi Ranch Traditional Ranch Roping Clinic and Ranch Doctoring Competition July 17-20, 2008 to register click here.......
Click here for my favorite links
Check out these two gorgeous websites in GERMANY! I guarantee you will be surprised!!!! http://www.crha.de/ http://www.californiastockhorses.de/ Thanks...Martin Hansen
Also this website in France: We have an association who organize some ranch horse compétition in France,so we are véry interest by all the great basin culture.The association website is http://chevalderanch.free.fr/
This year I’m traveling extensively with a new, much faster digital camera throughout eastern Oregon, Northern Nevada and Northern California. Let me know if you would like me to photograph activities at your place. Contact me: Mary Williams Hyde, 724 Main, #208, Klamath Falls, Oregon 97601, Office: (541) 883-7456, Home: (541) 882-1720, mary@maryhyde.com, mary@buckaroocountry.com, www.buckaroocountry.com, www. maryhyde.com
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