Wild Mustangs with H. Alan Day

Wild Mustangs with Alan Day

On today’s program we speak with Alan Day a rancher from Arizona who back in 1988 started a wild mustang government subsidized sanctuary in South Dakota.  Alan cared for 1500 horses on 35,000 acres.  It was the first project of its kind and there was much to learn.  Mr. Day had run cattle on two other ranches one of them the Lazy B, a 175,000 acre ranch in Arizona.

But these were horses, wild mustangs in fact.  To properly manage the land the horses would have to be moved from pasture to pasture.  Did I mention they were wild mustangs?   With careful consideration to the horses’ welfare, Alan developed a way of training the wild mustangs to follow his ranch horses from one pasture to another.  Slowly he was able to gain their trust and the horses thrived on his ranch.

Alan Day has written a book, The Horse Lover, A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs, chronicling the events leading up to the creation of Mustang Meadows in South Dakota and detailing the day-to-day operations.  Along the way, Alan intersperses stories of his own personal experiences with the horses in his life.  From his first horse, Chico to Aunt Jemima, Alan has a world of stories to tell, some funny, some poignant, all captivating, about the partners he shared his work with.
You can find out more about Mr. Day by visiting his website www.thehorselover.com. It has a blog where Alan's stories about horses, ranching and the West are being posted, and also where he will be speaking.
You can connect with him on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Horse-Lover-A-Cowboys-Quest-to-Save-the-Wild-Mustangs/641650999198071?ref=hl
And on Twitter, conect with: https://twitter.com/AlanDayAuthor)
To order his book from Amazon:  http://amzn.com/0803253354

Special thanks to Alan Day and Lynn Wiese Sneyd for setting up this interview and giving us some insight into the world of wild mustangs. I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of the manuscript and thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend the read!

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Talking Team Roping with Champion Denny Watkins

I've been lucky enough to get a few freelance writhing assignments.  For my latest article I had an opportunity to do a sidebar on champion Team Roper Denny Watkins.  Denny made it to the NFR 19 consecutive years and still ropes as well as teaching roping to ropers of all levels.  Denny offers a great insight to the word of roping and with 40+ years of experience he has a ton of stories to tell.

Once again, it was an impromtu interview just before one of Denny's Team Roping practices.  You'll hear some background noise (sorry) of him getting his horses ready to work.

Denny has a series of short instructional videos on Vimeo VOD and Youtube.  Check out a couple of these links:

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Talking Polocrosse with Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson joins us from McDade, Texas to talk about the sport of polocrosse.  Paul has been involved in polocrosse for many years, has written a book, and produced a DVD on the sport.  He explains some of the rules and how the games is played.  One note we have a few technical problems, but we get them resolved and carry on.

The Link to: Paul Johnson's Polocrosse DVD

The Link to Paul's website: Paul Johnson's website for horses, books, and dvd's

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Gymnastic Jumping Lines with Lori VanSickel

Lori VanSickel is an eventing and Hunter/Jumper trainer and owner of Flying V Farms. On today's show Lori demonstrates how to use an exercise called gymnastic jumping lines to improve your equitation and your horses athletic ability.  But, before we get into the action, Lori's twelve year old daughter, Kayla, gives me a tour around Flying V Farms.

We also produced a video that more clearly demonstrates the use of gymnastic jumping lines and how to use them correctly.  You can find the video at:  Gymnastic Jumping Lines

A month after recording the podcast, Ranae and I went to Lori for an hour lesson and found it quite useful in helping us with our balance and equitation.  We would love to hear your thoughts.  Feel free to email us at: john@whoapodcast.com

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The First US Campdraft Clinic and Competition

The US National Campdraft Association's first clinic and sanctioned competition is in the books and The Whoa Podcast about Horses and Horsemanship was there to cover it!  We grabbed our cameras and microphones and headed to Kiowa, Colorado under the sponsorship of the Australian Stock Horse Society.  The Australian Stock Horse is a relatively need registry here in the States, but the owners that have them brought them to Kiowa. 

 

We speak first with Australian Campdraft Professionals and Clinicians Pete Comiskey and Steven Hart.  Then we get a real feel for the event by interviewing the particpants of the event.  And, because there were so many Aussie saddles there, I found a saddle maker, James Root, to tell me about his custom made saddles.

We would also like to thank the folks who took time to talk with us:  John Thomson, Kiki Pantaze, Paul Johnson, kellee Campbell, Linda Hingst, Blake Hingst, Tony Navarra, and James Roots.

 

 

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Links for the show:

Our Youtube Video about the event

US National Campdraft Association

Professional Clinician and Campdrafter Pete Comiskey

Professionial Clinician and Campdrafter Steven Hart

Australian Stock Horse Society

Paul Johnson Polocrosse

James Roots Saddlery

 

 

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Australian Campdrafting Comes to Colorado

Campdrafting is one of the top disciplines in Australia and it's making its way across the pond and coming to Colorado.  A judging clinic, teaching clinic and a competiton is coming to Kiowa, Colorado August 22nd - Ausgust 25th, 2013.

We interview Mary Harris, President of the US Campdraft Association.  Mary tells us about the event and how it came about.

Later in the show, Pete Comiskey joins us via Skype from Australia and tells us about the inner workings of the clinic.

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Teaching Your Horse the Stock Whip

We met with John Thomson and one of his Australian Stock Horses out at our local stable, Ranch Rio.  We spent about an hour filming a sequence John uses to desensitize his horses to the stock whip.  As a result you get a video podcast this week.

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