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Mustang Heritage Foundation

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Extreme Mustang Makeovers and the Mustang Heritage Foundation  

Mustang Heritage FoundationWe done a number of shows on mustangs.  We talked to Alan Day about his book The Horse Lover.  We previewed the documentary about mustangs, Unbranded.  And, we spoken with trainers who have successfully worked mustangs like Matt Sheridan.  But, I really didn’t know too much about mustangs and their plight in the U.S.  It was easy to get a hold of the Mustang Heritage Foundation for information.

The Mustang Heritage Foundation was formed to foster adoptions of BLM mustangs in holding pens.  It is estimated that there are 50,000 horses being cared for by the BLM.  I contacted Kyla Hogan, promotion director of the Mustang Heritage Foundation, to get more information about their adoption programs.  We also get some great information about the Extreme Mustang Makeover events around the country.  The Extreme Mustang Makeover is a wonderful showcase to highlight the great qualities of these amazing horses.

Mustang Heritage Foundation

Madison Shambaugh

Kyla told me about an excellent young trainer, Madison Shambaugh, who had competed successfully at the Virginia Extreme Mustang Makeover.  I was able to contact Madison and ask her about her mustang, Terk.  Madison also generously shared some of her training and horsemanship tips.

Links Mentioned in Show #58

Mustang Heritage Foundation

Extreme Mustang Makeover

Madison Shambaugh Horsemanship

YouTube videos

Bobby Kerr‘s Freestyle for the Third Win!
I just learned that the Kerr family recently lost Jinglebob to complications of colic.  He looked to be a truly amazing horse.  Check out this video!

Madison Shambaugh’s YouTube Channel

About Us

Welcome to the Whoa Podcast about Horses and Horsemanship.   I am your host  John Harrer.  Along with my wife, Ranae, each week on the show we talk about some aspect of owning a horse.  It could be feeding or supplementation.  It could be bits and bridles, tack, or cowboy boots.  We cover training problems, or competing in shows.  We talk to farriers and horse chiropractors.  We talk about movies, books and magazine articles.  And, we travel to places we think you would like to take your horse.   That’s what the Whoa Podcast is all about.

Contact Us

We have well over 90 episodes up now and you can find them all for free on iTunes, with our Android App in the Amazon store, and now Stitcher, or wherever podcasts are distributed.  Get the Stitcher app and let us know how it works.  It’s Free.  You can also find every episode and more about the show at whoapodcast.com.  Please take a moment and join our email list. Get in on the conversation with Facebook and Twitter – just look for WhoaPodcast.

You are a big part of why we do this podcast.  We really love getting your feedback.  Please let us know your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions for the show.  You can email us at: John@WhoaPodcast.com

I blog at TrainingJessie.blogspot.com and I have a new blog about my Louisiana Leopard Catahoula puppy named Buster at BusterBrownDog.blogspot.com and if you want to know even more – and I can’t imagine why – it’s all at JohnHarrer.com

Thanks for listening,

John & Ranae

Episode #058

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Doug Williamson Champion Trainer

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Doug Williamson Champion Trainer 

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Doug WilliamsonReined cow horse and working cow horses have always mystified me.  I’ve watched a couple of competitions, even photographed a few.  The things these cowboys have their horses do are amazing.  In Bakersfield, where this podcast is based, we have a very special trainer.  Doug Williamson is 73.  He has been around horses and cows his entire life.  From riding Thoroughbred racehorses at age 10 to winning the Snaffle Bit Futurity TWICE!  Doug Williamson is an AQHA Professional Horseman having trained 42 AQHA Champions.  Doug won a million dollars in National Reined Cow Horse and is a Hall of Fame Rider.  Although Doug Williamson specializes in Reined Cow Horses now, he has done just about everything you can imagine from the back of a horse.  He was a pretty good team roper for quite some time.

When I called Doug Williamson to ask for an interview, he graciously agreed and invited me to his ranch just south of town.  Doug has a great facility and a lot of horses in training.  Not only did I get a great interview, I got to watch him work three of his prospects.  Throughout the whole process, Doug was giving me hints and tips about how to become a better horseman.

Doug Williamson will be featured in an upcoming documentary about Reined Cow Horses called Down the Fence.  I sat down with Doug in his office surrounded by wonderful photos of all the champion horses he has trained.  He gave us a little bit about the story of his life and I even get him to offer some horsemanship tips.

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We have well over 90 episodes up now and you can find them all for free on iTunes, with our Android App in the Amazon store, and now Stitcher, or wherever podcasts are distributed.  Get the Stitcher app and let us know how it works.  It’s Free.  You can also find every episode and more about the show at whoapodcast.com.  Please take a moment and join our email list. Get in on the conversation with Facebook and Twitter – just look for WhoaPodcast.

You are a big part of why we do this podcast.  We really love getting your feedback.  Please let us know your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions for the show.  You can email us at: John@WhoaPodcast.com

I blog at TrainingJessie.blogspot.com and I have a new blog about my Louisiana Leopard Catahoula puppy named Buster at BusterBrownDog.blogspot.com and if you want to know even more – and I can’t imagine why – it’s all at JohnHarrer.com

Thanks for listening,

John & Ranae

Episode #057

Saddle My Good Horse Sam Finden

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Saddle My Good Horse

Saddle My Good Horse Sam FindenSam Finden has had many jobs in his young life.  Originally from Minnesota, after college Sam found his way into a life that included horses and has never looked back.  He has always enjoyed writing and, with the horses, now he had many stories to tell.  Sam’s new novel, Saddle My Good Horse, is a western tale that involves horses, rodeos, and pretty girls.  The book is a fun easy read.  Sam is great at weaving a tale and involving horses.  I really liked how he developed strong, healthy relationships between the main characters.  Saddle My Good Horse is at it’s heart a story of friendship and young love.

Saddle My Good Horse Sam FindenI always enjoy the stories on how people get to where they are.  Sam has some great stories.  He has worked on dude ranches.  He helped train horses.  He even tried to make a TV show around his love for hunting.  He’s developed many good friends along the way.  Friendships he weaves into Saddle My Good Horse.

Sam enjoys life now in Montana.  He owns two horses, is a fan of Downunder Horsemanship, and finds ranch worked based on the season.  When we caught up with him, he was working in a night calving operation.  Sam continues to write and tell stories.

Links Mentioned on the Show

Sam Finden’s Website ~ Facebook ~ Twitter

Where to buy Saddle My Good Horse

Saddle My Good Horse on Barnes & Noble

 About Us

Welcome to the Whoa Podcast about Horses and Horsemanship.   I am your host  John Harrer.  Along with my wife, Ranae, each week on the show we talk about some aspect of owning a horse.  It could be feeding or supplementation.  It could be bits and bridles, tack, or cowboy boots.  We cover training problems, or competing in shows.  We talk to farriers and horse chiropractors.  We talk about movies, books and magazine articles.  And, we travel to places we think you would like to take your horse.   That’s what the Whoa Podcast is all about.

Contact Us

We have well over 90 episodes up now and you can find them all for free on iTunes, with our Android App in the Amazon store, and now Stitcher, or wherever podcasts are distributed.  Get the Stitcher app and let us know how it works.  It’s Free.  You can also find every episode and more about the show at whoapodcast.com.  Please take a moment and join our email list. Get in on the conversation with Facebook and Twitter – just look for WhoaPodcast.

You are a big part of why we do this podcast.  We really love getting your feedback.  Please let us know your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions for the show.  You can email us at: John@WhoaPodcast.com

I blog at TrainingJessie.blogspot.com and I have a new blog about my Louisiana Leopard Catahoula puppy named Buster at BusterBrownDog.blogspot.com and if you want to know even more – and I can’t imagine why – it’s all at JohnHarrer.com

Thanks for listening,

John & Ranae

Episode #051

 

Ojai Valley Cowboy School Video

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Ojai Valley Cowboy School Video

The Whoa Podcast about Horses and Horsemanship was invited to spend an afternoon at the Ojai Valley Cowboy School.  Jeff and Jay Ohaco, Vaquero Boone Campbell and Laura Fullilove have created a unique environment to spread the cowboy lifestyle.  The cowboy school is set up to cater to the needs of their students.  If there is a particular topic you need help with, say roping, they can tutor you on that.  If you want to explore your inner chuckwagon chef, the group is set up to demonstrate the intricacies of Dutch Oven cooking.  Need to know how to set up a tepee?  Pack a bedroll?  Or, maybe you need help knowing when and how to use your spurs.  This group can help.

In this short video we offer just a small taste of what the Ojai Valley Cowboy School has to offer.  To learn more about the school listen to our extended interviews on the Whoa Podcast about Horses and Horsemanship

Last Buckaroo Mac Hedges

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The Last Buckaroo Mac Hedges

Last BuckarooMackey Hedges is a real cowboy.  Mac, as he is know to friends, has spent six decades working on ranches, punchin’, branding, roping, and doctoring cows.  As Mac tells it, he may not be the Last Buckaroo, but cowboy-ing has changed substantially during his life time.  Mac has worked on over forty different ranches in the West.  He has some great stories to tell.  Mac has a special insight into what it is like to work on a spread.  He shares what it was like out on the range.

In the Spring of 1990, Mac had a terrible wreck.  He tells us exactly what happened and by the way he describes it, the memory is still vivid in his mind.  Told by doctors he would have to change profession and faced with the prospect of never getting on a horse again, Mac turned to writing.  He wanted to make sure his grandkids knew about his life.  The result was The Last Buckaroo.  Told through the voice of a seasoned cowboy as a novel, Mac describes his story of the West.  Helped by Cowboy Poet Baxter Black and many others, Mac got the book published.  The novel won many honors including the Working Cowboy Award.  Mac thanks, Robert Sigman of CowboysBooksandMusic.com for get the book back in print and available to the public again.

Mac seems to prefers being a cowboy over writing.  In 2010 he had another accident that laid him up and he wrote his second book, Shadow of the Wind.  I guess the only way he’ll sit still long enough to pen a story is when he can’t be on a horse.

Mac also goes into the importance of good horsemanship.  We talk about professional trainer Matt Sheridan and the advantages natural horsemanship training provides the modern cowboy. The challenges and responsibilities a cowboy has with a string of horses are much more than the average rider will face.

Mac is a good hand and has the cowboy ethic.  He truly embodies the the spirit of the American West and the Cowboy lifestyle.

Contact Us

We have well over 80 episodes up now and you can find them all for free on iTunes, with our Android App in the Amazon store, and now Stitcher, or wherever podcasts are distributed.  Get the Stitcher app and let us know how it works.  It’s Free.  You can also find every episode and more about the show at whoapodcast.com.  Please join our email list. Get in on the conversation with Facebook and Twitter – just look for WhoaPodcast.

You are a big part of why we do this podcast.  We really love getting your feedback.  Please let us know your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions for the show.  You can email us at: John@WhoaPodcast.com

Thanks for listening,

John & Ranae

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