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The Deveraux Family

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Meet the Deveraux’s - Craig, Jolene, Abi, Cooper & Jake.

The family ranches south of Newcastle, Wyo, running cow/calf pairs. The Deveraux Ranch is outfitted with indoor and outdoor arenas, affording the family year-round training and practicing abilities despite the unpredictable Wyoming weather.

Abi started her own business as a graphic designer and has enjoyed seeing that side of the agriculture industry, which includes designing this catalog.

Jake & Cooper are on their last year college rodeoing for the Gillette Pronghorns. They continue to be an integral part to the Full House training regimen, as many of the sale horses double as their A-string rodeo horses. These horses get hauled to the big shows every weekend. They will be rode and won on up until sale day!

Jolene is the family photographer and videographer. She is instrumental in capturing a look inside the family’s day- to-day work and training of sale horses.

Craig and his family are horseback all the time, doing what needs to be done day in and day out. The sale horses get used in many different settings: rodeos, ropings, and ranching. Craig spends countless hours aboard every horse that comes through the Deveraux Ranch, teaching fundamentals and instilling a good foundation.Then, he and his kids take them on to the next level of performance, whether it be heading, heeling, calf roping, breakaway roping, barrel racing, or ranching.

It is important to the Deveraux Family that their horses learn to move and perform correctly and at an extremely high level. Craig continually exposes himself to many great horsemen, taking advantage of the knowledge they share wiht him and applying it to his daily training. Excellent horsemanship is a pillar of the Full House Horse Sale. It’s a standard that Craig and his kids hold themselves to and deeply pride themselves in bringing to the Full House offering.

Two things set Full House apart from the rest. First. the family does not separate the horse sale from daily life. The horse sale is daily life. The family’s good rodeo and ranch horses are also sale horses. Second, this is not the family’s job or a pastime hobby. Training horses is an obsession, a passion, and the sale is a dream that has come to fruition, and an opportunity to live out that passion every day.

The family takes the Full House Horse Sale very seriously and does the best job they can to represent each horse just as they are.

“Raptor” is as easy-going as any horse you’ve ever rode and has enough gas when you step on the pedal to take anywhere in the heading, heeling, or calf roping. Great for all levels and ready to go. Eligible for tons of money including all the Royal Crown. Every year, when the sale is over, the guy that purchased the first horse wonders how he got such a nice horse for the money, and everyone else is wishing they would have.

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“Slim Shady” is as gorgeous, safe, and talented a ranch and rope horse as you will find. He spent most of his life with the guy that started him in North Texas. He has been used to rope hundreds and hundreds of cattle outside and has been used as a pickup horse at rodeos. He has never bucked, been tight or cinchy. Always gentle and safe but not a horse you have to peddle. He has a ground-eating walk and is super smooth in all gates. We have used him for all the ranch chores: dragging calves, loading trucks, and gathering big country. My girls have used and enjoyed him. “Slim Shady” is making a nice head horse and really good to heel on. He won Top Horse at the 2023 Black Hills Stock Show Ranch Rodeo ridden by Riley Curuchet. Easy to catch, shoe, has no bad habits and is sound. This is truly a one-of-a-kind gelding.

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“Coolie” has been a once-in-a-lifetime horse for us. He is my number one head horse that has won me a lot. Been hauled to ropings all over including the World Series Finals in Las Vegas. He scores great with a lot of run and is easy to rope on. In addition to being an amazing head horse, he is broke better than most and will flat turn around on cattle. Staci has enjoyed ranching on him along with our six-year-old twins. He is gentle for the whole family to ride and would make an excellent trail, ranch, or team sorting horse. You will have to drive a long way to find one built any prettier than him with a better set of papers. At ten years old, you will have a “been there, done that” horse that you can start winning on tomorrow with a lot of years left to go. This kind don’t come up for sale very often. Please call with questions!

We present you a beautiful mare, “Polly.” Well broke to ride! We heel and breakaway on her successfully. 100% sound. Anyone can ride her.

“Apollo” is a stout and shapey 15 HH gelding wrapped in a stunning palomino hide with a bonus dun stripe. He is great to look at and even better to ride. GENTLE, full of cow, and easy to operate. “Apollo” has spent his days working at the sale barn, sorting yearlings, and doctoring sick calves. His nights are spent team roping in the arena and packing the little girls around at play days. He is a super versatile gelding; take him to the trails, the arena, or the ranch. “Apollo” shows a lot of promise in the roping, he is easy to get along with, and could be your family horse. Sound, gentle, no vices. Call Mike for more information.

Superstar is the best way to describe “Shorty.” I’ve said a lot of times, he might be the best horse we’ve ever owned. Seasoned and hauled in all roping events from Jr. High to PRCA. He’s been to the high school finals, college finals, and was the 2017 5 Event on One Horse winner! You simply cannot ride him wrong. Any Deveraux afoot at the jackpot or rodeo picked “Shorty” to ride first. He’s been a big part of our family and we’re all heartbroken to see him leave. It’s the end of any era. But he will go on to be someone else’s best horse and win them a lot of money.

“Kid Rock” is a real fancy colt that Wade Printz built here on the ranch. Wade roped a lot of weaned calves on him this horse last fall and winter. He really knows his job.

“Huckleberry” is a fancy, young gelding that has spent a lot of time working on the ranch. Super talented and very athletic. He’s ready to go in any direction. He’s been with Justin Maass for 90 days roping calves and is nicely started on the heel side. For videos, search RCC DELUXE GUN on YouTube.

“Big Shot” is a cowbred, super ranchy horse that we have headed quite a few steers on. He’s pretty alert but you never have to worry about any bronc or buck. All business, very capable, real handsome.

You’ll want to pay attention to “Showtime!” Not only his demeanor, but his accolades, too. Super cowy, easy to rope on, works a perfect rope line, scores dead still, one of a kind! Very broke. Tons of outside riding. Classy, thick-made. Eye-catcher. A gentleman to be around, easy keeper—stays full hauling. 31 AQHA points with limited hauling. Placed third in Level #2 AQHA World Show. Placed sixth in Level #1 AQHA World Show. High point horse in the junior and open divisions at the Rosebud Spectacular AQHA Series. Over $12k AQHA and American Rope Horse Futurity earnings with limited hauling.

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“Bill” is coming along nicely in the breakaway. His foundation was built on the ranch being used extensively for all the chores and in the branding pen. He’s been taken to a few breakaway jackpots. You dang sure can’t ride the papers and this horse is living proof of that. If you want one that has all the tools to stay solid as a breakaway horse, look no further. Athletic, beautiful, stout, #1 shoe, gentle and smart.

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