Here you go…
Go easy on the comments. Honestly I’ve been on my horse about 10 times since I’ve been here. Ridiculous.
If y’all could arrange about 10 days of rain-free weather, I’d sure appreciate it!
About ~The South Dakota Cowgirl~
Jenn Zeller is the creative mind and boss lady behind The South Dakota Cowgirl. She is an aspiring horsewoman, photographer, brilliant social media strategist and lover of all things western.
After a brief career in the investment world to support her horse habit (and satisfy her mother, who told her she had to have a “real” job after graduating college), she finally took the leap and stepped away from a regular income; trading the business suit once and for all for cowgirl boots, a hat, and jeans. She has not looked back.
When Jenn first moved to The DX Ranch on the South Dakota plains, she never imagined she’d find herself behind a camera lens capturing an authentic perspective of ranching, and sharing it with others. Jenn has always been called to artistry, and uses music, writing, images, home improvement, and her first true love of horses to express her ranching passion.
Horses are the constant thread and much of her work centers around using her unique style of writing to share her horsemanship journey with others in publications such as CavvySavvy, the AQHA Ranching Blog, the West River Eagle, the family ranch website, and her own website.
Using photography to illustrate her stories has created other opportunities -- Jenn’s brand “The South Dakota Cowgirl” has grown to the level of social media “Influencer”. This notoriety has led to work with Duluth Trading Company, Budweiser, Wyoming Tourism, Vice, Circle Z Ranch and Art of the Cowgirl, to name a few. She also serves as a brand ambassador for Woodchuck USA, Arenus Equine Health, Triple Crown Feed and Just Strong fitness apparel. Her photography has been featured by Instagram, Apple, TIME Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Oprah Magazine. Jenn’s work has been published internationally, has been seen in several books and has graced the covers of several magazines.
Jenn became a social media influencer by accident when she started to explore Instagram as a way to share her life on the ranch with folks that don’t get to experience it. It’s grown into an incredible platform that she uses to empower women, create an environment for self improvement and share life on the ranch.
When she’s not working, she loves to drink coffee, play with her naughty border collie named Copper, start ranch colts, and run about the country chasing cans. Her mother still thinks she doesn’t have a “real” job.
I probably don’t know what the heck I’m looking at, but I thought that was awesome!
You looked Fast! Good job especially since there has been so little time to practice with the wet weather.
I can’t wait to see when y’all get to get in some good riding days cause I can see you are working hard on it and when you two get that much needed riding time and are in sync, you are gonna rock the races:)
Thanks, Mandie!
Only if that stupid weather would behave…… LOL~ You tried 😉
i like his first barrel, but like you said unless you have flippers you arent doing any good schooling on any of them. benz thinks she is a pasture ornament. he needs work on his third. but hey if you have 2 good barrels out of the run and you didnt knock any over or fall off your doing pretty good compared to some lol
Heck! I think you look pretty danged good out there … the important part is that you’re getting out and competing and that’s going to pay off in spades. Keep it up!
Thanks for sharing your runs!! (I can’t WAIT until I start hauling Sug!) Gump can run! 😉
Gump is the fastest horse I’ve ever thrown a leg over. He was bred on our ranch, started as a 2yo by a really handy natural horseman (my cowboy) and then was sold to a cousin who match-raced him for 9 years. We were able to get get him back 5 years ago and my Cowboy spent the first three years just teaching him to walk again. Now we can walk in and out of the alley, works in an O-ring snaffle and he is nearly as quiet as a church mouse. When he figures it all out, he’s gonna be tough to beat, I think!
Awesome – he’s fighting you at times though isn’t he. Some of the turns you could see he was getting his rear end under him, but the others he’s not pushing from behind to swing himself around. Like you said really hard when you can’t practice.
I can talk, I couldn’t ride as well as that. But then I own a OTTTB & only for 3 months so a long way to go yet.
on the first video his 1st barrel looked great! Looks like turning to the left isn’t his strong point but like others have said, you aren’t knocking anything and his speed will help him with some good times! Have you ever ran him to the left first? I thought he was a younger horse! He’s 16? (Did i do that math right? lol)
nice runs
ok ill see what i can do about the weather
hey God arrange 10 days of rainfree weather now