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How to be a Better Client to Your Farrier

What your farrier wishes you knew.

WYO Quarter Horse Sale

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a horse makes a living on his feet

BEING A FARRIER IS A HARD BUT REWARDING PROFESSION. It’s not an “easy money” job, and is physically demanding as well as dangerous. Most farriers can tell stories of near-misses and some direct hits that they’ve experienced over the years. They can also tell stories of people who expect the impossible, or at the least, miracles of them. I am a farrier’s wife, so I hear about every horse he does in a day, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I have watched him recover from injuries caused by dangerous horses, and I have watched his back go bad, hands get gnarled, and patience get worn thin. I hear nearly daily what could make the whole experience better for all involved.

With that in mind, let’s cover some of the basics that will enhance the working relationship between you and your farrier. For inside information from a farrier of almost 40 years, Bill Wood, Newell, South Dakota was consulted for his ideas of what would make his job easier. At 64 years of age, he’s gotten past wanting to deal with any nonsense from horses or people, and has a fairly good grasp on what would help him to do his job better.

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SCHEDULING

A farrier who is busy and has a large clientele is on a schedule. He books appointments weeks in advance and fills his week with clients, giving himself time to drive to each place, set up, and do his work. The best thing a horse owner can do is set up the next appointment the day the farrier is at their place. “Keeping horses on a schedule helps me to keep their feet in better shape, keep them shod right, and is essential if I am doing corrective or therapeutic work on the horse,” says Wood. “If I spend hours trying to get a horse’s feet balanced to improve soundness and function, it is important to keep that progress going to help the horse.”

In regard to that schedule, if a client cancels at the last minute they shouldn’t expect the farrier to reschedule his next 10 appointments to accommodate them.

“Things come up and I understand that, but people need to also understand that I can’t reschedule everyone else to work around one person. All my clients are important and I don’t like to treat them otherwise,” says Wood.

A last-minute cancellation costs the farrier in time and money, as he can hardly fill a spot on such short notice. If one must cancel, do so as far in advance as possible.

This very cooperative horse is tied to a solid, safe fence, the ground has been cleared and is dry. Little things like this make the farrier’s day a better one.

Photo by Jan Swan Wood.

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working area

In order to do a good job of balancing feet and making the work easier on both the horse and the farrier, having a level, clean place to work is needed. If it’s wet and muddy, the foot has to be re-cleaned each time it’s picked up, slowing down the process and causing unnecessary wear on expensive tools. Also, the farrier has other clients to go to and would rather not be plastered with mud and manure when he gets in his vehicle to go to his next appointment.

The work area should also be free of other loose horses, dogs and kids. All three are, at the least, a distraction for the horse, and at worst, can cause a wreck. Having other horses tied nearby but at a safe distance is fine.

Teaching a horse to pick up his feet and tolerate trimming and shoeing is part of the training process, and should be addressed before you call the farrier.

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Have the horses caught or confined. Leaving a bucket of grain and a halter next to the gate into an 80 acre pasture can cause the farrier to get back in his vehicle and leave. Very rarely will a farrier want to be in charge of catching the horses to work on them, so at least have them in a small corral if you can’t be there to catch them or have them tied. It’s also a time and relationship saver to have them cleaned up so that they are ready to be worked on, and if it’s fly season, spray them down.

On a horse that hasn’t been trimmed much, having another horse there, plus someone to control the movement of the horse, is helpful.

This yearling is learning how to be a better horse to trim, a lesson that will benefit it all through its life. If you want to know more about how to prepare your horse for your farrier, ask him. He’d be more than happy to help with some pointers. Photo

by Jan Swan Wood.

training

Your farrier is not your trainer. If your horse is hard to handle and won’t stand for the farrier, it’s not the farrier’s responsibility to train them to stand to be trimmed or shod. The owner needs to handle the horses feet regularly and if in doubt, ask the farrier what he/she would like them to do to get them prepared for the farrier.

If your horse has never been trimmed or shod, tell your farrier in advance. “I’m willing to work with a horse that’s just inexperienced, but I need to know that I need to schedule more time for them. I want to be able to take the time needed to make it a good experience for the horse so that my work gets easier instead of harder at later visits,” says Wood.

Some horses have a history of being harder to trim or shoe and if you know this, tell the farrier when you schedule the appointment so that adequate time can be allowed or so he can decline the work. “If a horse needs drugs to be shod, I’ll meet the client at the vet clinic so the vet can administer them,” says Wood. “I’m not going to do it myself and be liable for that horse if something goes wrong.”

Farriers don’t have workman’s comp, so if he/she gets injured, they are simply out of income until they are able to work again, therefore, they aren’t anxious to tie into a horse that is untrustworthy.

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It’s important to keep horses properly trimmed to keep them sound and functional, so a good relationship with your farrier is vital.

instructions

Good farriers have years of education and experience behind them. If you have so little confidence in your farrier’s ability that you feel the need to instruct him in his work, it would be best if you found one you did trust so that you can leave him to do the job. Make sure you provide all the necessary information, including a history of previous foot injuries or treatments, but you need to find a farrier you trust.

stuff happens

No matter how careful everyone is, things can go wrong. Horses can blow up, pull back and hurt themselves. A hoof can get trimmed a little short causing the horse to be sore, or a hot nail can happen. If something’s wrong, call immediately and give the farrier the opportunity to correct it or help you to deal with it. Talk to the farrier, not the coffee crowd or social media.

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in advance and make arrangements with a definite date that he will be paid, and then keep your word. He has to maintain inventory, plus put fuel in a vehicle and pay his bills, so needs to be paid on time.

Tipping is not required or even expected by a farrier, though it is always appreciated. When the farrier has dealt with an uncooperative horse, has gone the extra mile to make something work for the client or the horse, or has been inconvenienced in some way during or around the appointment, a tip is a gesture of thanks beyond the mere words. The amount of the tip is open to the giver, but basing it on the time spent doing something extra is a good place to begin.

All in all, most farrier/client relationships are good, and the farrier genuinely cares about the horses who become old friends over time. Keeping that relationship open and honest, respecting each other and each party doing their best to make it a good experience, goes a long way to establishing a successful working relationship.

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he door handle of the ranch pickup at WYO Quarter Horses is a rigged up contraption of wire and a pull cord from a lawnmower. While Bill and Carole Smith don’t have a fancy horse place, as Carole says, there’s no shortage of chrome when it comes to their horses.

In the last 32 years the Smiths have grown the WYO Quarter Horse Sale into one of the biggest gelding sales in the country.

They sell a combination of home-grown and purchased geldings in their spring and fall sales each year.

Carole’s nephew, Reid O’Rourke, has become an integral part of the business, throwing a leg over every horse that comes through the gate. “Reid does most of the real work around here,” Bill says.

They sell an average of about 75 geldings a year, and buy about 75 percent of those. “The reason we don’t have all home-raised horses is if you wanted to have five to six good, sound 6-7 year old geldings, you’d have to have 40 mares bred every year. I don’t know how much money you’d have in them,” Bill said.

They have contacts all over the country who know what they’re looking for in a gelding and bring suitable, available horses to their attention. “They’re like gold,” Bill says. “You find them where they’re at.

“People call me up if they have a really nice gelding because they know I’ll give a little more for him than they’ll get anywhere else,” he says. “I’m picky about what I buy, but don’t mind paying for him.”

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OUR NUMBER ONE DEAL IS THE HORSE BEING GENTLE AND DOING A LOT OF FORGIVING OF PEOPLE.” BILL SMITH

PHOTO ON PAGE 20 The Smiths’ horses run on summer pasture above the Wind River near Thermopolis, Wyoming.

CLOCKWISE Reid O’Rourke and Carole and Bill Smith work together to produce the horses that go through the ring at their WYO Quarter Horse Sale each May and September.

Bill Smith, a former bronc rider, has made a name for himself by producing gentle, capable, working horses.

Carole Smith does a lot of the production work for the horse sales, but spends as much time as she can horseback.

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The Smiths are usually in the market for a few 4-year-olds, but mostly geldings that are 5 or 6. They look for good feet and legs, a good back, smart head. “I have yet to see the perfect horse,” Bill says.

“I’ve got him in my mind, but I haven’t seen him.”

In addition to the gelding market, the Smiths, in partnership with Woody Bartlett, breed and raise some horses.

The Smiths have 24 mares and two studs, and Bartlett has five studs and more than 100 mares at his 81,000-acre ranch near Chugwater, Wyoming, plus 50-60 mares, including five to 10 really high end cutting mares at his ranch in Texas.

When Bartlett bought his first horse from WYO Quarter Horse Sale—the saletopper at $8,700 in 1989--he had good horses, but he didn’t have a market for them, Bill said. “He bought into our sale and we gave him a market for his colts.

He’s a horse lover. He doesn’t need this sale, but he loves it.”

That horse was a boost for Smiths as well. Some big-time team ropers were bidding against Bartlett, and that horse went on to qualify for the world in heading.

“We had a little bit of trouble with our credibility because we were all bronc riders,” Bill said. “After that horse sold, that all changed. Now hardly anyone knows us as rodeo hands. We’re just the people who put that sale on.”

Their rodeo days haven’t exactly been forgotten, though. Bill is a member of the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame and the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame because of his bronc riding days. He qualified for the National Finals Rodeo numerous times in the 1960s and

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’70s, and Carole was the Ladies’ National All Around intercollegiate champion and went on to the NFR in the early ’70s.

The program Bartlett and the Smiths have put together crosses Woody’s cutting mares on ranch studs to get bigger horses with a lot of cow sense.

The Smiths’ breeding program started with Jackie Bee-bred broodmares from Duane Walker’s program. “We try to stay with the foundation horses, the kind of cowhorse horses. We stay away from the speed horses,” Bill said.

At the first of June, Bill and Reid were about to head to Bartlett’s ranch to get started on the 30 two-year olds that will go through the ring this fall.

They’ll put eight to 10 rides on the 2-year-olds in 10 days. Then they’ll turn them out until the first of September and

lead them through the sale ring in the fall sale. “That’s the way they’re sold. People know that,” Bill said.

“We don’t fit them up. They just run out, they’ve always run out. They’ve got good feet and bone,” Carole added.

“They’re the right kind of horses. The kind most people aren’t raising anymore.

They’re definitely not show horses,” Bill said. “The first day we get them in we’re on their backs riding them around. These horses are so good-minded they’re about broke, you just have to teach them.”

Bill learned how to teach horses from Ray Hunt, a horseman and clinician who helped popularize Tom Dorrance’s approach to horsemanship, encouraging people to work with their horses and build a relationship on trust rather than dominance. Bill has been putting on clinics for

25 years. He focuses on horsemanship and colt starting.

Until about the early 1980s the Smiths were consigning their horses through other sales. “It got to be hard to find a sale where you could do good with your horses.” The problem was solved—as it often is—when Bill and his brothers were sitting around the table. “We decided we ought to have our own sale,” Bill said.

In 1983 they started their own sale and the high selling horse was $4,900.

They got $1,500 for a yearling colt, which had been bringing $200 in the consignment sales. “We thought we found a gold mine,” Bill said.

“From 1983 it stumbled along and did okay. We got a little smarter.”

One thing that’s helped develop their reputation is their honesty. They sell a lot

of horses sight-unseen over the phone and they want the customers to be pleasantly surprised when the horse is delivered.

“The bottom line is if the horses weren’t good, we wouldn’t still be in business,” Bill said.

“We try to have a variety of horses so we have horses for everybody. One thing we don’t do is sell kids’ horses. If you buy a nice gentle horse and take him home and want to put your kid on him, that’s fine, but we’re not going to tell you it’s a kids’ horse.”

After more than 30 years in the business, they have a pretty good handle on what their customers are looking for, and they know they have to adapt.

“When we first started we were noted for big, handsome, gray horses. About 15.3 to 16-hand horses were the most

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ABOVE The customers at the WYO Quarter Horse Sale are looking for a good disposition and color, the Smiths say.

OPPOSITE PAGE Reid O’Rourke, Carole Smith’s nephew, has been spending time at the ranch since he was about 7 years old. He learned his horsemanship skills from Bill and Carole.

popular thing. It’s evolved now to where color means a lot. Most of them have to be gentle and 15 hands and under. If you’ve got a big one you’ve got to have a customer for him,” Bill said.

“Our number one deal is the horse being gentle and doing a lot of forgiving of people. Most of the people we sell to now are not horse people. Horses are their rec-

reation. The horses have to be able to cover up for them. That’s a lot to ask. Disposition is one thing we’ve got to have. The next thing is pretty. They’re not buying a horse to use, they’re buying a horse to play with. Using horses, and people who need horses have about disappeared.”

Their customer base has changed over the years too. They said the last sale was nearly all new people. “They’re younger, the dynamics are changing a little bit,” Bill said.

They are also selling more to ranchers because of the high cattle prices.

Carole said they sold to customers from 25 states at their spring sale this year. Customers from Wyoming bought the most horses, with California customers second.

On an overcast day in late May, they had just gotten in a load of new geldings from Iowa and Minnesota, mostly. They were an assortment of buckskins, bays, palominos and an occasional flashy sorrel.

The horses’ first order of business was a short trailer ride to the summer pasture in the red bluffs above the Wind River.

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“They get to go learn to be horses,” Carole said.

Many of the horses come from stalls or paddocks, so they’ll spend some time with tangled tails, getting their feet under them and learning to drink from running water. Soon they’ll start their formal education, working in the arena, packing into the mountains, riding in the hills, chasing cows and roping with Reid.

“Unless Carole takes them—then I don’t get them,” Reid said.

“I ride them, see what they need help with. I expose them to as much as I can,” Reid said. “We don’t show most of them, but we rope on them all.”

Reid and Carole occasionally show in reined cow horse events.

“We enjoy the type of horses we’re producing now,” Carole said. “They’re gentle and smart.”

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usually ride ‘Paxil’ -Kenny names all his horses after drugs because he says he is addicted to them,” Karlie Robertson, a senior at New Underwood, South Dakota, says, laughing.

She is referring to Kenny Brown, her mentor. She has been going to Brown’s barn near Hermosa, South Dakota nearly every week since she was in seventh grade, honing her skills at cutting.

For the uninitiated, cutting is a mounted rodeo event where a horse and rider are judged on their ability to separate a calf or cow away from a herd, and then keep it separated for the allotted time. Once the calf or cow is singled out, the rider must loosen the reins and give the horse control. At the top levels, the result is an artful dance between cow, horse, and rider, but it takes an exceptional horse and a welltrained rider to pull it off. That’s where Brown comes in.

It all started in 1986, when Brown built a barn and started inviting friends over to practice cutting. He had an open door policy from the first -- all were welcome. In the beginning, Brown just trained ranch horses, but he’d caught the bug, and found himself with a real passion for the sport. Before long he had a roster of horses used exclusively for cutting, and a group of regulars coming to train. He never advertised, but word spread about his place. One day someone asked about high school rodeo, and, true to his policy, Brown said, “Why not?” Since then Brown has worked with anywhere from 28

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one and six kids a year, helping them train, usually starting when they are in seventh or eighth grade, on through high school.

“They are such great kids,” Brown says, proudly, “It’s always a pleasure to help.” Most of them are already “good hands” when they come to him, and know basic horsemanship. “I just put them on a cutting horse,” he says, “and we go from there.”

A lifelong rancher, Brown grew up roping and riding, but didn’t come to cutting until later in life. He still doesn’t consider himself a professional trainer, though many have benefitted from his expertise over the years. He has never charged for his services, and doesn’t plan to start. He does this work out of love, and he is happy to spread the joy.

According to Brown, anger has no part in training horses or kids. “You are not teaching well if you are getting angry,” he says. When it comes to working with a new horse, he says, “Once they’ve done something right, give them time to rest and think about it. A horse really needs time to think about things.”

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This philosophy applies to his work with the kids too. “Kenny makes it fun,” Robertson says. “He might bring up what you did wrong, but he doesn’t pick at it or get after us for a mistake.” And although kids who come to him often go to different schools, and compete against each other once they leave his barn, a spirit of camaraderie pervades at Brown’s. “It kind of feels like we’ve grown up together,” Robertson says, “So everyone gets along really well.”

In addition to offering them his time, experience, and facilities, Brown also donates his horses for use in competition, no small gesture, considering that a good cutting horse is essential to success in the sport, and can be prohibitively expensive.

When it comes to finding horses to use in his program, Brown says it is usually obvious right away if they are “cut out” to become a cutting horse or not. “We start them around two years old, slow and easy, but a lot of horses just aren’t interested,” he says.

The first step is to take the horse out to follow a cow. Kenny watches for clues, such as ears pricking forward, and a general interest in what the cattle are doing.

LEFT Karlie Robertson, a senior at New Underwood High School, rides Paxil at the South Dakota State High School Rodeo Finals.

Robertson has been working with Kenny Brown since she was in seventh grade. Photo

by Cowboy Images.

BELOW Kenny Brown on Plaudie Doc Z Bar at the Central State Fairgrounds, Rapid City, 1995.

Courtesy photo.

If they don’t have enough “cow” in them, they will be easily distracted. A horse destined to cut will focus in on the cow, and not lose that focus. According to Brown, you can’t teach that instinct. It’s either there, or it isn’t, and if it isn’t, you’ll waste a lot of time and energy trying to instill it.

The horse also must curb its impulse to “drive” the cattle, and instead be willingly to “line up,” or turn with the cow. Patience, athleticism, self-control, and passion must all be present in equal measures for a horse to become successful as a cutter.

Perhaps the same is true of the riders.

Though Robertson competes in other rodeo events, which she enjoys, cutting is her favorite. “You really have to trust the horse,” she says. “You just start to know what they are going to do and it is a really cool feeling.” She recalls a time when Brown had her train bareback. “That was pretty amazing!” she says, “You really feel connected to the horse then.”

Her passion for the sport is particularly evident when she talks about Paxil. “I’ve been riding her every year since I went down there, so we’ve really bonded.” Paxil is ten years old, and Robertson says, “I started riding her when she was young. We’ve learned a lot together.”

Brown is retired from ranching now, but he has no plans to retire from cutting.

As long as there are people who want his help, he is happy to provide it. Thanks to Brown’s generosity, all of his students, Robertson, Cord Roberts, Brianna Clementson, Cassidy Stratman and JD Kirwan, made it to the South Dakota State High School Rodeo Finals.

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Jessie Royer uses her most experienced shooting horse to have a little fun with a rifle loaded with black powder. The rifle class requires a horse you can drop the reins on to fire the weapon.

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Ask the Mayo Clinic about trigger finger and they’ll tell you that stenosing tenosynovitis is a painful medical condition in which your digit gets stuck in the bent position.

amateur in the growing sport of mounted shooting that combines galloping horses and single-action .45 revolvers.

Competitors eliminate balloon targets with black powder ammunition. The

MONTANA MOUNTED SHOOTING CHAMPION POINTS STUDENTS IN A WINNING DIRECTION Ask a cowboy mounted shooter the same question and you’re likely to get a very different answer and a smile.

“I live to hunt. I love guns,” says Montana’s Jessie Royer. “Combining guns and horses and going fast – how can it get any better than that?”

Royer, 38, who grew up on a ranch in Ennis, is a hard-driving mid-level

sport with more than 50 possible patterns is a timed event with penalties for missed balloons and more.

Each pattern starts with a random portion and finishes with a straight shot of balloons or a “rundown.” At speeds of 25 to 35 miles per hour, the average rate of a galloping horse, it’s easy to miss a balloon or even get off course.

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New shooter Caryl Wilkerson recently took a clinic hosted by the Wyoming Desperados and instructed by World Champion Tammy Billingsley. Wilkerson is pictured competing in Powell, Wyoming shortly after the clinic weekend.

Photo by Kelly Hicks.

A competition load can break a balloon up to 15 feet away, but setting up for a shot means riding every stride. A competitive shooter will have a maneuverable horse that covers a course without being overly excited. He’ll count footfalls along the path to a win when hundredths of a second can separate first and second place. Rollbacks, flying lead changes, side passing, and rate may all come into play.

Good gun changes are key – mounted shooters carry two six shooters, reholstering one firearm in the middle of the run – and course management, or how to best run a course, is critical.

World Champion and world record setting mounted shooter Tammy Billingsley does it all. The Darby, Montana native competes as a pro and trains her own mounts as well as outside horses.

She also puts on clinics across the country, reaching out to new and experienced shooters alike, sharing her secrets for a few hundred dollars. Not a bad deal if you want to win.

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clinics until 2010,” Billingsley says.

“By then I had built a resume and gained the insight into the sport necessary to help others.”

Petite and elite, Billingsley has poise amidst the noise of intense competition. She’s ready when she gets there, leaving nothing to chance, not even her mindset. Maybe especially her mindset.

Billingsley is the type of competitor who sees her least favorite course posted for a weekend match and says, “Heck yeah, I love this one!” while others groan.

“Being a mentally strong competitor is just as important having good mechanics,” Billingsley says.

She stays focused by being balanced and looking for consistency in her own performance, but not perfection. “I used to put too much pressure on myself to win every run. I would worry about how much it cost to get there, how much money I needed to win. I was thinking about everything except what was important - consistency. Now every time I step in the arena, my focus is on mak-

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ing the best run that my horse and I can make on that given day.”

Even though she does this for a living, Billingsley has fun, and maybe the kind of fun that only a seasoned and proven competitor can savor when she is looking back on it all. “It’s important to set goals, work hard and stay positive,” she says. “Think about the things you can improve and quit worrying about things that are out of your control.”

Something that is in her control is the care and training of her horses, so she makes the effort to direct every aspect of both that she can.

“My horses are athletes and my whole world,” Billingsley says. “Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today. This is a team sport, horse and rider. I have a very regimented feeding and conditioning program for my horses. I want my horses to be at peak performance when I am at a competition, and I’m very particular about the conditions I run my good horses in.”

A confident horse is a competitive horse, she says. “I also believe very strongly in having a solid foundation for my horses’ training before I start competing on them. I want my horses to know and like what they do, so they can work confidently.”

For part of the year, Royer is fortunate enough to live down the road from Billingsley, and she rides with her every chance she gets. A professional athlete in her own right – Royer is a distinguished Iditarod competitor – she believes in learning from the best teacher she can find.

“If you’re going to do this, learn from the best so you get started right, and don’t pick up any bad habits,” she says.

Like most mounted shooters Royer would like to ride more often. But her “real job” of dog sledding keeps her busy up north except during the summer months, so she crams a lot of practice and competition in then. She keeps coming back to it, in part, because she loves the mounted shooting culture “I love the people in the shooting world. They are just great people who are out there to have fun,” she says.

When Alaska calls, Royer trades in her cowboy boots for something that holds up better to snow and ice, and takes her horses with her to pack out big game. All that mountain country, and any ranch work that she does, add up to a better shooting horse.

She does find that the short timeframe of a shoot means handling nerves in a way that sledding does not.

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ing, and even cap guns may be used to start a new horse.

A lot of initial work is done first at a walk, then moved up to a trot, before loping or adding any more speed.

The sport boasts two associations, and the majority of members are amateurs and weekend warriors. Mounted shooting organizations Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association (CMSA) and Mounted Shooters of America (MSA) have web sites that tell about their rules and regulations, clubs across the country, membership fees. Some

competitors and even some clubs belong to both associations. The technical rules of competition differ only slightly on most things, but the system of payouts for winnings may differ a good deal.

Each association divides matches into levels of competition, so new shooters are competing against new shooters until they move up to the next level through wins. There are senior classes, youth, and peewee, rifle and shotgun to mix it up and cavalry classes. Participants compete in men’s or women’s divisions although an

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overall winner may be named. Dress codes vary, as do tack requirements. Many clubs hosts jackpots, and a weekend of fun typically includes an awards banquet. Shoots are often family-oriented and held in small towns and small cities. Folks can be found mingling around trucks and trailers well into the evening after a match.

Anymore, the typical modern mounted shooter competes in a western shirt and cowboy hat, jeans, and chaps or chinks.

Holsters are often custom made and there is more than one way to configure a holster for competition. Some guns are packed on the waist, others, chest high or on a pommel.

The style of firearm resembles those used by the American cowboy in the 1800s.

A question competitors often get is “do you use real ammo?”

While the black powder loads can be dangerous at close range, there is no projectile, and competition ammo has to be certified. The bigger shoots have someone supervising the loading and unloading of guns and at all matches, a range master oversees safety and watches for penalties. The range master will qualify new shooters for safe handling of firearms and horses before they are allowed to compete for the first time.

Billingsley’s clinics and private lessons are typically offered across the country for beginners and experienced shooters alike.

She teaches along the road to her own matches. Like a lot of Rocky Mountain horse pros, she summers in her native state of Montana, but winters in Wickenburg, Arizona where she can get in needed ride time, sometimes blogging about it.

“I am always working towards my next world title and working on my next world champion horse,” she says. “I also strive to coach my students to be the best horsemen and horsewomen and competitors that they can be.”

Student Mark Ulracher took that last lesson to heart.

“I want to beat her,” he says, laughing. An avid hunter, Ulracher is lanky and well-groomed, a soft-spoken Dakota native with an explosive laugh that would send the deer running for cover. But he’s got too much self-discipline for that. Way too much.

Ulracher, 36, who makes his home in Powell, Wyoming, has a day job but spends most evenings and weekends perfecting his practice, detail by detail.

“I usually warm up, do some softening, then rating,” he says. “After a shoot, I evaluate the holes that developed. For instance, Lucy (his mare) was a little doggy in the middle. I need to build her speed, but keep her smooth. Also build speed with control on the rundown. So I do the other stuff for the week and on the weekend run some pattern and see if there is an improvement, or a new hole.”

Ulracher is a mechanic by trade, and it’s natural for him to go piece by piece, problem solving. “Horses are always a give and take. I try to find the balance. So I guess my goals change as the horse does, but winning is always the goal.”

Mounted shooting continues to grow as a sport, picking up competitors in Canada and Europe. People have been known to start their own club when there wasn’t one close by.

Billingsley is happy to play her role as a top competitor, a trainer who takes in outside horses, and as a mentoring clinician.

“My teaching approach is unscripted,” she says. “I have people ask me all the time, what is the format I use for my clinics. My answer is I don’t have one. I don’t know until I meet my students and their horses.

Everyone is an individual and learns differently, so I assess each individual and present the information in a way they can relate to.”

Dakota native Mark Ulracher navigates a shooting course at a recent competition in Powell, Wyoming, keeping his horse traveling smoothly and showing good form in his gun handling. Ulracher is riding a horse he started.

Photo by Kelly Hicks.

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If your horse isn’t acting like himself, he may be wishing for some “plop, plop, fizz, fizz” relief.

Your horse can’t pop Tums, but some estimates suggest between 40 and 90 percent of performance horses suffer from ulcers.

According to an article by Dr. Jorge Nieto, DVM, PhD, professor of surgical and radiological sciences at UC Davis, symptoms of ulcers include • Poor appetite • Attitude changes • Reluctance to train • Poor hair coat • Low-grade colic

• Dullness • Decreased performance • Poor body condition • Weight loss • Loose feces

Ulcers are more common in performance horses and horses that are confined to a stall because of their “unnatural” eating patterns. Horses are designed to be grazers, eating small amounts of food continuously throughout the day, so their stomach produces acid continuously--up to nine gallons per day. When they are confined to a stall and fed large amounts twice a day, that acid is still produced, but there is nothing in the stomach to provide a buffer for the stomach lining.

Additionally, in performance horses, the horses’ activity can cause the stomach acid to splash, causing ulcers on the upper portion of the stomach, which is more vulnerable.

Stress also contributes to the development of ulcers, and some studies have shown that just the stress of a few hours’ transport is enough to cause ulcers in horses that were previously unaffected.

Repeated use of some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, like bute, can contribute to ulcer development as well.

Ulcers are diagnosed through gastric endoscopy, or gastroscopy, a simple, 10-20-minute procedure that requires only a mild sedative.

Horses can recover from an ulcer with treatment. It’s not a s simple as popping Tums, though, since a horse would require treatment with a large amount of antacid several times a day, because of the volume of acid they produce. The most effec42

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tive treatment is an acid pump inhibitor, like omeprazole, which slows or stops the production of acid completely, allowing the stomach lining to heal.

The preferable alternative, though, is prevention.

While eliminating stress and having all-day access to grass isn’t going to happen for most performance horses, some management practices can help reduce the likelihood and severity of ulcers.

• Feed horses frequently, or allow to graze when possible.

• Reduce the amount of grain and concentrates and incorpo rate alfalfa hay into the diet.

• Avoid the use of anti-inflammatory drugs, or use newer, safer drugs.

• Limit stressful situations, like long transport and intense training, when possible.

• Allow stalled horses to see and socialize with other horses.

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It starts off kind of like that old joke about how three characters walk into a bar.

A Dakota rancher, a former feed lot manager, and a veterinarian all got together to serve up a better horse pellet.

This story doesn’t have a punchline, but a potent cocktail of herbs and chelated minerals may benefit performance horses that spend a lot of time on the road and in the arena.

It’s a product with true regional roots, on the market for less than four months.

Food rep Bruce Klassen of RMA feeds collaborated with veterinarian Dr. Tori Lewis to come up with a low-sugar herbally-enhanced horse pellet that prevents ulcers and more. Photo

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The feed is built in Miles City, Montana out of local hay and grain, and manufactured by RMA Feeds of Mandan, North Dakota. It’s the brainchild of two Wyoming horse professionals who wanted a high quality pellet to keep even a stressy animal with a tough job healthy.

The feed is available at select retail stores and veterinary practices in the region.

Bruce Klassen, who is now an RMA rep, and veterinarian Tori Lewis came up with the recipe.

“Our performance horses are under a lot of stress,” says Lewis, who operates Red Barn Veterinary Services in Powell, Wyoming. “With our RMA feed, we provide all of the nutrients the horse needs to be able to heal itself.”

The herbs yucca and devil’s claw are blended into the pellet for ease of use. There’s no top-dressing, no extra product to purchase, no issues of palatability.

“I don’t know of anybody else who is doing what we are doing,” says John W. Dixon, owner of RMA. The pellet has no added sugar, and important step towards reducing ulcers, which thrive on high sugar feeds. A 50 pound bag is competitively priced, and is reputed to have better bioavailability and less waste.

Preventing ulcers in horses at risk is a priority for Lewis.

“Herbals are a good fit for horses because they are herbivores,” Lewis says. “It’s not enough to deal with ulcers as they crop up. We want to prevent them.”

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Guts dry up and don’t produce enough mucous, which leaves the stomach lining at risk for holes that then let in damaging toxins and bad bacteria.

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and bracing along the road and confronting unfamiliar surroundings. They are still expected to perform.

Ulcers are easily missed.

They can be hard to find on exam and may exhibit a variety of vague symptoms that the average owner would not recognize.

“What we are looking for is immunological soundness with nutritional support,” Lewis says. “To help enough horses, we have to find an economically viable option.”

Lewis estimates that half of her patients are equine, and as many as half of those patients are performance animals.

She hopes clients follow her plan to get animals on the pelleted therapy, and spread the word by taking it on the road with them.

The culture of rodeo might be the perfect incubator for testing something new, if the animals perform better on it.

“When, a cowboy trailers to his next event, jumps his horse out of the trailer and finds that his horse is not ganted up, not colicky,

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Dixon, who was already manufacturing feed in his 16-yearold company, was quick to get on board when Klassen got involved. He knew Klassen from a feed lot setting, and was familiar with some research on herbs.

The two men started talking about 14 months ago, and now all three people involved can point to a bag with a label on it.

Klassen was busy boarding college rodeo horses when his gut told him some of those animals could be fed better.

“I saw these rodeo kids spending a lot of money on feed that was high in sugar and not all that great for the horse,” Klassen says.

“I thought we could come up with something a whole lot better.”

The combined effect of yucca and devil’s claw is mellowing agency, anti-inflammatory properties, and natural pain relief.

The typical rodeo scenario involves lots of miles on the road and the pressure of competition. Too many horses, Lewis says, step off a trailer ganted up, colicky, sore, exhausted from standing

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not lame, and he can go to work and ride and do well, what we hope for is that his peers will notice.”

Lewis says a chronic cycle of stress sets a horse up for an overactive fight or flight response, and that takes its toll on the horse’s gut until the gut is not even working properly.

Guts dry up and don’t produce enough mucous, which leaves

the stomach lining at risk for holes that then let in damaging toxins and bad bacteria.

A cascade of inflammation ensues, and the process repeats itself.

Research shows that even training negatively affects levels of stomach acid in the horse.

Equestrian Kathy Redish, who stables an old dressage schoolmaster not far from where the RMA feed was developed, is a firm believer that the right training is part of maintaining a healthy animal.

She has turned to the tradition of classical dressage for answers. “We ride with relaxation, or we don’t ride at all,” Redish says.

Her current mount is chronic for ulcers that she believes came from a previous competitive environment. She blends a labor-intensive ration for her warmblood Oliver, and is skeptical of any new product.

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Dr. Tori Lewis estimates that half of her clients are equine, and that 50% of those are performance horses that would benefit from a better diet.

“If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is,” she says, conceding that a simpler routine would be a welcome change.

Redish says she has spent thousands on veterinary care and feed for this horse and a thoroughbred she once owned that died from colic related to ulcers.

Lewis says she doesn’t see the rodeo culture easing up on the horse.

“We’re not going to convince a rodeo cowboy that he’s not going to haul to rodeos and ride,” she says. “We’re not going to ask

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the cowboy that comes into clinic to do that. But that same cowboy will be asked to buy a few bags of feed to take on the road with him, and he will be asked to give his horse a couple of scoops of that as a therapy.”

John Suttee, interim president for the Wyoming Rodeo Association, says that keeping horses healthy in a busy rodeo season is paramount. Competitors from his association may compete for points in 30 rodeos in a season and throughout the region.

“Not just ulcers in particular but horses’ health in general is important to all of us,” he says. “We are always looking for more that we can do to make the horse’s life better.”

For the horse that already has an ulcer, pain management can be difficult.

“We are fairly limited with horses,” Lewis says. “We don’t have as many options as we do with small animals when it comes to pain management. All of our pain meds with horses are contraindicated with ulcers because they are known to induce ulcers.”

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t all began when Karen and Bob Meyer, Glad Valley, South Dakota bought their ranch in 1972. They didn’t have enough cattle to stock it, so they made a deal with their friend Lee Lopez, Meadow, South Dakota to run a few mares and a stud on the ranch. The Meyers liked horses so it was a good fit.

They split the foal crop with Lopez and started building a little bunch of mares of their own.

In 1976 they partnered up with Lopez and Geno and Effie Hunt (Effie is Lee Lopez’s sister), and held a production sale at Mobridge, South Dakota. The average on that first sale was $310 a head with the top selling weanling, a filly, bringing $1,000.

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since. The auctioneer for 38 of the production sales has been Lynn Weishaar, Reva, South Dakota. “We have sure appreciated all that Lynn and John Johnson have done for our sales over the years,” says Meyer.

“In the first years, the buyers were primarily ranchers and a few rodeo people. A lot of people bought those prospects with the idea of getting them started riding and then re-selling them. Back then the market was good and there were lots of sales. Of course, there was a slaughter market so the horses were culled that didn’t pan out and they’d buy more prospects.”

“The sales were such a social event.

You’d see all your friends there and have a good visit, then see them at other sales all over the country. We all went to each other’s sales,” says Meyer.

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had a little band of mares that made them some money. The colts usually sold for more than a calf, so it was better than running cows for some of them. We also sold some to the Czech Republic two different times and they rode them, made broodmares out of them and raised Quarter Horses over there,” says Meyer.

The Meyers also showed their horses in the beginning. Larry Larson, now of Rapid City, South Dakota, showed yearlings and two year olds in the Center of the Nation Quarter Horse Association, South Dakota and some in North Dakota for them. “It was so much fun back then and the people had a great time socially too.

Larry lined us up with John Baltezore, Beresford, South Dakota and he showed in the timed events for us. He’s been a good friend to us and has helped us get some of our good stallions,” says Meyer.

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arena. It’s always good to hear of someone seeing a good horse at a rodeo, barrel race or roping with our brand on it. It helps us to know our program is working,” says Meyer. The Diamond Flying M on the left thigh is always a good advertisement for their horses.

One of the buyers that has really used the horses from Meyer’s program is John Hoven of McLaughlin, South Dakota.

Hoven says “I’ve made it a habit to buy what I think are the best three stud colts for the past six years. It’s been a good deal for me. I guess every horse on our place has their brand on it.”

Hoven also ropes in the Senior Men’s Breakaway in regional rodeos on a roan Drop Of Frost gelding and says “I take them to the rodeos, use them on the ranch and pen back on them at the Mobridge sale

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Pictured here with Bob Meyer, Drop Of Frost was a favorite stallion in the Meyer program due to his people pleasing disposition and siring ability.

There are still 10 daughters in the broodmare band.

Photo courtesy Karen Meyer.

barn every week. I really use them and they’re good horses.”

He bought his first Meyer horse from Casey Joens of Eagle Butte, South Dakota, and decided that he’d just go to the source and has been in the seats at the sale ever since.

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“Casey probably got a lot of people to spend some money at our sale as he likes to buy something with some color. He’s a good cowboy, a rancher and has really done right by our horses and has bought one or two a year for quite a few years,” says Meyer.

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Good horses don’t just magically happen and there’s been a great deal of thought put into bloodlines with all the breeders in the sale. The Meyer stallions that stand out to Karen Meyer are still found in the bloodlines of the broodmare band. “The first really exceptional stud we had was Par For The Course, a full brother to Zan Parr Bar. He did us so much good. We also had Fixer’s Crystal Brick and used him for 16 years, then sold him after we had some of his daughters.

Docs Willow and Drop of Frost were also exceptional,” says Meyer, adding “I think Drop of Frost was probably the best all around stud we ever had. We still have 10 of his daughters in the mare band. He was such a people-pleaser and his colts were just like him.”

They also used sons of Grays Starlight and Playgun for five or six years, liking their modern pedigrees and athletic ability. Current stallions at the Meyers ranch are SNW Northern Frost, who has his Register of Merit in the arena, Young Rio Gunner, who is trained in both cutting and team roping, and their newest stallion, with his first foal crop coming in 2016 is Paddys Shota Merada who has his NCHA Certificate of Ability. Their last crop by WC Driftwood Buck will sell in the 2015 sale, as he has been sold.

Of course, good stallions can’t do a lot without good mares. Favorite mare lines have survived generations of scrutiny by the Meyers. “It takes so many years before you know whether a mare or stallion has been right for the program,” says Meyer.

“It depends so much on who gets them and what they do with them too. If the buyer never does anything with them, then they are kind of wasted. Getting them in the right hands is crucial.”

Bloodlines aside, Meyer says “Disposition is our priority. I don’t care how pretty or fast they are, if they’re not a nice horse, they can’t do much. It’s what we’ve bred for always. It’s that disposition that makes them able to go and do so much too.”

When high school kids send out their senior pictures and a Meyer horse is in the picture, it does their hearts good. “It’s so fun to hear from those kids and hear what they’re doing in rodeo. We hear about them making state and nationals in high school rodeo. We also hear about college and pro horses, and that’s really gratifying,” says Meyer.

Over the years, the sale hosts have changed. The Hunts grew until they broke off and have their own production sales.

Lee Lopez and the Meyers have regular consignors who sell with them, including Quickstads and the Hulms. In 2013 they invited Denny and Doris Lauing, Sturgis, South Dakota to sell in the sale and in 2014, invited them in as partners.

Doris Lauing says “It’s been such an honor for Denny and me to be a part of this sale. The longevity of that sale isn’t only because of the horses but the ethics of the people who started it.” The Lauings focus much of their breeding program on the arena, primarily barrel racing, so the programs compliment each other nicely.

The venerable Lee Lopez is still raising those good Lopez horses with the Diamond A on the right thigh. He was honored in 2007 with the AQHA Legacy Award for 50 years of registering horses.

The Lopez name in a pedigree promises a performance horse with plenty of natural ability. WPRA barrel racer Shelley Morgan, Eustace, Texas, has been pulling some checks at the big rodeos on Lees Yellow Gold, “Gunner,” who is only a five-year-

old, showing that an old line of horses still produces the young stars in the arena.

In looking back at the past 40 years, Karen Meyer says it has been lots of fun.

“Our enthusiasm for the horse business hasn’t dimmed much over those 40 years!

It what we enjoyed doing then and still do. It’s been good to us. Every year we look forward to seeing what this colt crop will be. I guess that’s what keeps all of us horse people in the business.”

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When it comes to horse folks, smartphones aren’t just for losing, breaking and dropping in the water trough anymore.

Some pretty creative people have developed apps to make life easier, more fun, or more organized for those in the equine world. Here are some apps that are designed by people who actually ride horses, and know what we’re looking for in an app.

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This app was created by Emma Kline. She says, “I strongly believe that putting in the time to practice is a big huge key to success with horses. I’ve been keeping track of my hours with my horses for a lot of years now and it’s interesting to see patterns and milestones develop. Sometimes big goals are overwhelming but if you just focus on getting out there and putting in some time and rides, those days will add up and pretty soon you’re doing what you never thought was possible. Your horse is getting handy and so are you!” An evolution of her old, handwritten system, she’s developed an interval timer, as well as an actual ride timer, so you don’t have to note the start/end time by hand or on your phone. A Droid version is being planned, and should be released by January 2016. Future plans

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This app allows you to sync across devices, track medical/farrier records of multiple horses, share data with your help/employees, integrate with your calendar, automatically generate reminders, backup your records using HTML or CSV, manage events and so much more. I can see it being helpful for me in managing the dozen-plus horses we’ve got to keep trimmed, and the multiple horses we’ve got to deworm yearly.

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SADDLE CARE IS NOT FAST AND NOT EASY. IT’S ESPECIALLY TOUGH WHEN SADDLES ARE EXPOSED TO WEATHER AND MUD.

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This time of year, saddles are often in constant mud.

In some jobs, such as riding feed yard or sale barn pens, the mud is particularly caustic because it contains so much manure.

Talk to three different saddle makers and you’ll get three different opinions about the best way to care for your saddle.

Luke Williams, a saddle maker from Peggs, Okla., said the saddle cleaning process is long, but worth it for the comfort of the rider and horse, and the life of the saddle. Keeping saddles supple and conditioned will assure they sit correctly on the horse.

“If the mud is still wet, I’ll go ahead and hose off what I can,” Williams said. “Then I’ll let it dry completely - or almost.”

To clean the saddle, Williams prefers paste saddle soap. “Do one area at a time,” Williams said. “I put a little water in the soap can and use a toothbrush to put it on, then wipe it off with a cloth or piece of saddle wool.”

Williams said he has tried both white and yellow paste, but prefers yellow. He said the beauty of paste saddle soap is that any soap left in the saddle leather is not detrimental; it softens the leather.

Williams said the best cleaning jobs are done when the owner removes all parts of the saddle possible. Even if you are not comfortable pulling off saddle strings and conchos, most anyone can take the fenders off a saddle. When soaping the saddle, raise all the parts, such as the seat jockeys, to get to as much of the hidden leather as possible.

After cleaning with saddle soap, Williams said he likes to let the saddle set over night. “You hear all your life to start oiling

This saddle was used for several days in the pouring rain.

When it began to dry, the bottom skirt started to curl. It is important to get the leather rehydrated and supple in order for the skirt to lay flat again. A curled skirt with hard leather with make a horse’s back sore. Photo by Kathy Parker.

something before it’s completely dry. I don’t know if that matters,” Williams said.

“You can use Neatsfoot. I like olive oil. I know people who even say they use vegetable oil.

“I don’t like to soak anything (with oil),” Williams said.

“They’ll always be greasy if you get them to that point. Two or three light coats is better.”

Williams said any hard spots on the saddle, where the leather is not getting supple, will need more oil. He prefers to apply oil with a piece of saddle wool. If you visit a saddle shop, most any maker will have scraps of saddle wool.

After the oil is absorbed, Williams said a coat of saddle butter aids in protecting the leather and covers scratches or abrasions.

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Williams said he doesn’t like glycerin soap as it is more harsh and tends to dry the leather and make it hard.

“Most people I know who use glycerin (soap) like (I-90exits Exits60 60&& 61) 61) to scrub the whole saddle then hose it off,” Williams (i-90 said, a process which leaches moisture out of the leather when it dries. )16 & 06 stixe 09-i( For rough-out leather, Williams said if it is worn slick he treats it the same as tooled or slick leather, www.arenawesttrailers.com soaping it and then oiling.

“That’s not what I was always told to do, they told moc.sreliarttsewanera.www you to oil the slick side, but rough out leather is more open and actually needs oil more. You have to be careful because it soaks up faster. It really needs oil more.

2008 Featherlite 2003 4star Besides, if it’s a half breed, you can’t get to the back 9’ LQ, 19’ stock back, new 12’ trail boss LQ, 4horse, of the seat.” hayrack gen ready Saddle soap is good for rawhide on saddles, Williams said, but oil won’t soak into rawhide.

Saddle maker Remmel Mosimann of Kim, Colorado, agrees with Williams about olive oil.

1998 4star 4 horse, midtack, 2005 Sundowner 3 horse, “Stick to olive oil,” Mosimann said. “Neatsfoot weekender AC 6’ dress cakes dirt in.”

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“I’ll use some warm water and a brush or sponge to get the dirt out,” Mosimann said.

“Saddle soap is good for a saddle that’s going on the shelf or for reconditioning an old saddle.

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“I once had an old saddle maker tell me he used Neatsfoot because what came from the cow needed to go back on it.” Neatsfoot is a by-product of the slaughter process. It is made mostly from hooves.

“Old boots and old saddles were sewn with cotton thread,” Mosimann said. “Now saddle makers use nylon thread, but you find a lot of those old saddles where the stitching is broken because Neatsfoot oil eats cotton thread.

“Saddle soap is actually more of a finisher. You can put it on and buff it and it almost makes a gloss,” Mosimann said. He said he prefers saddle soap to saddle butters as a finisher. “Saddle butters are just a little too sticky for me,” Mosimann said, “but I’m talking about really dry, high desert conditions. If you are in a lot of rain, saddle butter with a little beeswax will sure help it shed the water.”

Saddlemaker Don Gonzales from central Texas agrees that saddle soap is not a great option for cleaning because it’s intended to stay on the leather, not get washed off, so it will mix with the dirt and create layers of dirt and oil. “I always recommend washing leather with a mild dish soap like Dawn, Ivory, or even Murphy’s Oil Soap and rinsing thoroughly. Scrub the saddle with a medium bristle brush to lift the dirt and grime out of the leather,” he says on his blog. Once it’s clean, he said saddle soap isn’t a bad idea.

He also recommends letting the saddle dry for a few days before oiling, so it gets completely dry and you don’t have to worry about mold.

Mosimann said a lot of what to use is tied to the saddle’s use, the regional weather and personal preference.

Mosimann said too much oil can be as bad as too little.

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It is most effective to clean or oil one portion of the saddle at a time. Photo by Kathy Parker.

cially rough out leather. “If there’s something you can put too much oil on, it’s skirts,” Mosimann said.

Mosimann said working saddles should be oiled at least once a year.

The main thing is to keep the leather supple. Proper saddle care will help saddles last longer and feel better to the horse and the rider.

Gonzales said he gets a lot of questions about what type of oil to use on saddles and his response is always that even the wrong oil is better than no oil.

He also reminds folks that most saddle shops are happy to help out with your saddle care and maintenance, but that simply cleaning and oiling your saddle will extend its life, regardless of the name on the bottle.

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Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015 H 1:30 pm MDT H Faith Livestock Commission Co. • Faith, SD Sired by

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