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Dear
Friends,
January,
2011
75
degrees on Christmas and snow on New Year's. . .that's
Arizona!
As
we look back over 2010, another season has passed and a
new horizon is showing light...as we ring in 2011
it will be special for both of us, as Beverly turns 50
in January and Wil 70 in August. Birthday milestones for
sure!
Our
lives are more than just the horses, but the horses do
become a focal point for anyone who has the great
privilege of taking the stewardship responsibility of
embracing a lifestyle with horses.
We
have made many acquaintances and dear friends through
this life--our horse clients from all walks of
life, alfalfa farmers, feed store owners, equine
chiropractors & dentists, veterinarians, saddle
makers, fellow horse trainers, working cowboys, rodeo
people, packers & outfitters, horse sale managers
& traders, tack suppliers, fencers & barn
builders, horse trailer salesmen, and diesel mechanics
& tire servicemen. All of them creating a
network of western folks who are tied together through
the horse.
We
are grateful for this life and the good folks we
know. In each interaction we try to add a spark of
the Divine's love, sharing the Golden Rule of doing unto
others as you would have them do unto you. The necessity
of making of living can, at times, diminish the true
spirit of sharing and we can find ourselves torn. As we
move forward into a New Year with all its promise and
hope, knowing full well trials and challenges will be a
part of it, may we all stand firm in our faith and live
our beliefs and values. May we take time to look for the
reasons our lives are evolving as they are, and take
steps to direct our path, carefully and prayerfully
choosing our trail and thus our destiny, God
willing. As we have learned from training
horses, the release is more important than the pull or
request; the stillness, the patience, and the breathing
before moving on quiets the horse and makes him able to
relax and comprehend the lesson. It is the same with us.
Take time to reflect, and then...get those feet moving
again!
Wishing
you and yours a New Year of health, happiness, and
prosperity in its purest form.
Beverly
& Wil
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2011
Horsemanship School Dates & Events. .
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Be
sure to try and break away and join us once again in the
dryer, warmer region of the U.S. Your horses will
appreciate the effort you make to improve your
communications skills. The journey with horses goes only
as far as the horizon you choose to see. As Wil put it
back when he was competing, "you're only as tough as the
company you keep". Keep reaching and learning and
enjoying your horse!
Arizona
Winter Schedule:
Jan
13-15
Reined Cow Working
Jan
21-25
Outback Train Training & Horsemanship
Feb
6-10
Ladies Only! Practical Horsemanship with Beverly
Feb
22-27
Foundation to Finished Bridle Horsemanship
(2-4-6
day option)
Feb
28-Mar 2 Reined Cow Working
March
14-19 NEW--Cowgirls
Only! Progressive Performance Horsemanship w/Beverly
March 26-28 Return Riders
Versatility Round-Up
Oregon
Spring/Summer Tentative Schedule:
May
8-10
Trail Training (can combine with Outback
Trail class)
May
11-13
Outback Trail Training
June
2-7
Foundation to Finished Bridle Horsemanship
(2-4-6
day option)
(can combine with Cow Work class)
June
8-10
Reined Cow Working
June
16-18
Ladies Only! Practical Horsemanship (Plus option--add
June 19-20)
June
27-29
NEW--Cowgirls
Only! Progressive Performance Horsemanship
w/Beverly
(Plus option June 30-July 1)
Visit
the School Schedule
page on our website for full course descriptions and
tuition
information.
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New
WHR $avings Offerings for 2011. . .
Purchase a WHR
Gelding and get your Class for 50%
Off!
Now
through March 2011, you can get your class for 50% off
when you purchase a
Wil Howe Ranch gelding.
(For full courses only--classes must be pre-paid at
the regular price and the discount will be deducted off
the purchase price of your
horse)
Repeat Return
Riders get 50%
Off!
Repeat
Return Riders are those who have attended as a Return
Rider at least once. Now, you may attend any regular
class at 50% off. That's an additional 20% over
the normal 30% Return Rider discount! (For
full courses only--regular deposit is still necessary to
reserve your spot; see School Schedule &
payment details on our
website.)
Students get 10%
Off any Tack or
DVDs!
If
you purchase any tack or DVD's while you're at the ranch
attending a class, you'll receive a 10% discount off the
regular purchase
price.
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Here are a few
missed WHR Happenings and
Grapevine News items from 2010 . .
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Congratulations to
Jane Ely of Kirkland, Washington. Santa was especially
nice to her this Christmas, as she received a Gift
Certificate for a suitable WHR gelding of her choice in
2011! After 12 great years, her WHR gelding Magic,
a lovely black Docs Remedy bred gelding, is now in his
twenties and showing fatigue and ready to retire. We
look forward to getting Jane mounted again this spring
on another WHR "good one".
Previous WHR
client, Nick Sorani of Rogue River, Oregon, adds another
WHR gelding to his family's recreational horses with
Pockets. Here, Wil & Nick enjoy the sagebrush hills
over Eagle Valley this past
November.
 After three
years, Beverly's little sassy cow horse Nifty has found
a perfect home. New and passionate WHR student,
Teresa Sweetwood of Donnelly, Idaho, came to our October
Reined Cow Horse Clinic and got "bit by the bug".
Having trained and ridden her own project horses, she
was ready to step up and get a well-trained cow horse to
enjoy and learn from, using him for all-around ranch
work on cattle, trail riding the back country, and to
rope off. Lord knows Nifty has had lots of that in
Wyoming as Beverly's #1 mount for the tough jobs on the
ranch, rounding up, sorting, and handling the bulls.
 Here
is Teresa and Bev in November, and
another shot of Teresa and Nifty
pulling her kids on their sleds
. . .
"Thank you sooo much, I just love Nifty
and we ride almost
every day, even if it's just bareback in the
snow.
I can't wait to make many more memories with
him.
Thanks again"  Also attending
our fall Reined Cow Horse Class was former WHR student
John Child of Portland, Oregon. After 10 years, a few
Wil Howe geldings, and lots of hard work, John, along
with his daughter Alexi, have become passionate about
showing reining and working cow horses in the AQHA
competitions. They have been very successful, as our
highlights of their achievements has shown. Returning to
get re-focused in his pursuit of refinement and working
on "lightness" with Wil, John also brought a young
project colt to start on live cattle. Here is a nice
candid shot of his seasoned bridle horse Tick, as they
entered the show arena earlier this year. They finished
up as year-end champions in the OQHA Reining
&Working Cow Horse classes. Alexi won the same youth
classes as well, and 10 in the 2010 World AQHA
show. Congratulations! Here
are a couple of shots from our appearance at the
Pendleton Round Up 100-Year Celebration in September.
Rigged out in our antique angora chaps and cowboy gear,
we're pictured here with our friend, master saddle maker
and buckaroo cowboy, Monte Beckman.  
In June,
Robert Aranda and his son Nate came to Oregon from New
Mexico for a month to train and get bonded-up with their
new horses, Poco and Mercury, whom they purchased while
we were in Arizona. Staying in their "big rig", these
guys came in style with a 53' living quarter three-horse
trailer! After taking up our driveway for weeks, getting
them on the road was a feat of masterful truck-driving
ability, as Robert, Wil, and Robert's assistant Marty
worked to get the long rig to clear our ranch entrance.
 Since
then, the Arandas have been
back home in New Mexico, enjoying the barn
we
designed and ordered for them, taking Merc and Poco to
the high mountains in the fall.
Robert also successfully participated in
a NTRAC Trail competition ride with Mercury,
accomplishing all the obstacles. "We are becoming
one, my horsemanship is progressing, and it's because of
Mercury." Here
is a series of captured moments in the making of a young
horse women. Kendra Sorani, age nine, received hands-on
pointers from Beverly in a private clinic at the
Sorani's Pleasant Creek Ranch in Rouge River, Oregon,
last spring. You are never too young or old to start
living your dream! Click here
for info on private clinics at our ranch or yours.
Greg
Kallmeyer, from Kentucky, spent two months training with
us last winter. He has been putting it to good use,
schooling his four Hanoverian Warmblood mares in the Wil
Howe way of doing things. Not only are they progressing
in their fundamental dressage work, but in trail riding
and jumping as well, creating another version of a
versatility horse--an English/Western cross-over! Greg
is marketing them so he can step up to a WHR Quarter
Horse gelding!There
are many more success stories, too many to count, but we
always appreciate hearing from our folks who are "making
it happen" on the journey with their horses. So send us
your horse stories and
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