The South Dakota Cowgirl

Horses and an Update

22 Jul posted by admin

Yesterday was a great day!
It started with some fabulous entertainment from Zach and Kesley who argued about how best to build a bigger round-pen. In the end it got done, with lots of laughing, some zinger one-liners and smart ass comments from the resident smart ass #1 (zach) and smart ass #2 (Kelsey). At least [...]

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Kelsey’s Barrel Bash Weekend

21 Jul posted by admin

Kelsey had some great runs this weekend. She placed fourth in the youth class on Thursday night in Dupree (where she ran her fastest time so far this summer), and then Friday night at Rapid City she won 6th in the 4D which was good for a $73 check. Needless to say she was [...]

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Barrel Racing Videos from the Weekend!

20 Jul posted by admin

Here is video from the weekend starting with Thursday night’s run. I won’t show you Friday’s run because Gump fell going around the first, and the rest of the run went down the toilet. The ground in Rapid was really deep, and he really struggled with it. And as much as I hate to [...]

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DX Jurassic Classic

16 Jul posted by admin

Meet my newest project (ok, so there’s a lot of projects here but this one is special), Dx Jurassic Classic, or Dino as we call him. He is a half brother (by a different daddy) to my barrel horse, and favorite gelding of all time, Gump. Can you see the resemblance?
Yesterday he had his [...]

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Update

14 Jul posted by admin

Nora is doing really well. Thanks to all of you who are concerned about her. I haven’t got the photos on my computer yet- but it poured last night, so there’s a good chance I’ll get to do that today, along with updating my Etsy store, editing some more video of our ranch’s stud [...]

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Three

13 Jul posted by admin

They say bad things happen in threes. I surely hope all the bad is gone from my life for a while.
First: the chicken massacre from a couple weeks ago.Second: the death of my uncle.Third: the beautiful Nora (my pretty gray mare that all of you adore- almost as much me!) lost her foal. We have [...]