September 19th, 2010

Our 4-H Wranglers had another visit from some of our Horses For Heroes - NM, Inc. Cowboy Up! participants.
A couple of our veterans came out to help our kids with their last practice day before their Ranch Rodeo, but even the veterans learned a few ranch skills themselves with the help of our kids, have a look...

August & September Practice Days

The Turquoise Trail Wranglers have been busy practicing during our August and September club meetings for our 2nd Annual Chad Winters Memorial 4-H Ranch Rodeo scheduled for Sunday October 10th at 10:00 AM right here at the Chad Winters Memorial 4-H Arena . Their hard work is paying off as you can see in the photos. Thanks once again to NM Ranch Horse Versatility Champion Ms. Diane Clare who organized and led us in events like cattle sorting and penning, roping, branding, maneuvering your horse through trail obstacles and crossing a bridge, trailer loading and unloading, hanging a rain slicker while horseback and flag relay are several of the events that the Wranglers and several other Santa Fe County 4-H'ers will be doing as a team. An added bonus this year will be a delicious chuckwagon meal served up by our good friend Mr. Carl Hawkins of Hawkins Chuckwagon fame. We have one more practice and fun day scheduled for 10 AM Sunday September 19th. So saddle up and we will see you there.

September 5th




Our Wranglers even taught a couple of our veterans how to load a horse - Good job Wranglers!

August 22nd

Roping Clinic

For the second year in a row our Wranglers got to rope with the best! Our thanks go out to Mr. Clint Mortenson along with Mr. Henry McKinley, Mr. Wayne Winters, Mr. Mark Hermeling and Mr. Grant Mitchell who spent the day sharpening our roping skills. Beginning the day with "ground school" and roping the 'dummies" and moving up to roping horseback with the skid steer and the Heel-O-Matic the Wranglers were set for our August and September practice sessions for our 4-H Kids Ranch Rodeo scheduled for October 10th 2010.