Farm & Ranch
Local stables brag on students’ accomplishments
BROCK — Alamo Stables of Weatherford has been open less than a year and is already boasting great accomplishments in the show ring.
Young riding students attended their first two show competitions and took home all around honors.
Colten Rundell, 15, riding Son’s Silver ‘N Gold, captured the High Point Buckle at the Parker County 4-H Horse Show June 6, by competing in halter, showmanship, western pleasure, horsemanship, trail, English riding, barrels, poles and stakes.
Bianca Peck, 9, on Archie’s Scooter, took Grand Champion High Point at the Bella Rosa Farms Open Show in Rio Vista last weekend. Her barn teammate, Garrett Peck, 9, riding Chance, came in only 3 points behind and nabbed the Reserve Champion High Point. Both Bianca and Garrett competed in numerous western riding classes including halter and showmanship against adults and trainers and came home with more than 30 ribbons between them.
Owners/trainers, Bonnie and Darrell Rundell, expressed great pride in these youngsters and their accomplishments.
“These kids are unbelievable!” both Rundells agreed, “They work so hard, and are such great sports — always cheering each other on and congratulating all the winners in each event.”
Alamo Stables is located on Old Brock Road and offers riding lessons, training, boarding, day camps and clinics, as well as a wonderful location for weddings, parties and reunions.
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Planned grazing course with Kirk Gadzia this April in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH — Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers and Holistic Management Texas team up to offer a new “Planned Grazing” course at the Will Rogers Memorial Center April 21-25.
The emphasis for this five-day course will be on grazing planning, but instructor Kirk Gadzia will cover rangeland monitoring, financial planning and land planning as well. The content will be relevant to both managerial and operational level employees, with varying levels of formal education. There will be a lands-on Learning aspect if weather permits. Class runs from 8am to 4:15pm each day. -
One more for the tourists
Moira and Clive, British tourists, had taken in the Arkansas attractions of Eureka Springs, the Chuck Wagon races in Clinton, the sale barn in Green Forest, and now found themselves in Fort Smith for the Arkansas Cattlemen’s Association Trail Drive.
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Cowboy ingenuity
Cowboys are nothing if not ingenious. It takes that sort of out-of-the-box mentality to allow them to solve the myriad of problems that arise when you combine horse, cow and rope!
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Local wins at San Antonio Stock Show
SAN ANTONIO — The Junior Market AOB Steer Show was held Feb. 19, at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo.
Taylor Cody won the honor of Breed Champion AOB with her 1334 pound steer. -
Olympic distraction
You know the inmates have taken over the asylum when you’re turning to PETA as the voice of reason! These are the animal rights extremists who compared eating chicken to the Holocaust, compared the murdering cannibal Jeffery Daumer to butchering hogs, and once proclaimed that it would be great if Foot and Mouth Disease infected animals in the U.S.
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Scholarships awarded to Parker County youth
SAN ANTONIO — Cade Hansma and Alannah Chalmers of Weatherford, and Jens Rudibaugh of Poolville, were the recipients of scholarships from the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo at this year’s horse and llama shows.
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Jake working overtime
In an effort to make managing the 20 section ranch more efficient, the boss bought Jake a Ranger, a four-wheel drive muscle car ATV.
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Local student wins at Fort Worth Stock Show
FORT WORTH — Dylan Mask, a 4-H member from Weatherford, exhibited a First Place Medium Weight Hampshire Barrow in the Junior Barrow Show at the 2010 legendary Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo Feb. 4. J
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Local youth wins Calf Scramble at Fort Worth Stock Show Rodeo
FORT WORTH — Jacob Sheffield of Weatherford, Texas, a Perrin FFA member, was among the winners in the Calf Scramble event during the Feb. 4 evening performance of the Rodeo at the 114th edition of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show.
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Harry and the hog
Many of us took a meats course in college or have dressed wild game and have a basic understanding of how it gets from the pasture to the plate. Harry is not one of us, in that regard.
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Planned grazing course with Kirk Gadzia this April in Fort Worth
