2008 Clinic Series Whether you desire to train, show, or ride horses for pleasure, your success is defined by your knowledge, confidence, and patience. When those are achieved, you have the ability to form a working partnership with your horse that will be exhilarating to you and pleasant for your horse. We can help even the most timid rider reach their goals! March -28,29&30 COW/CALF GATHERING and WORKING CALVES - CLINIC-limited to 15 cost $300 lunch Saturday and Sunday will be brought out to you at the corrals. A great Prime Rib dinner Saturday night. These 3 meals are included in the cost of the clinic. Joe Painte,r his friend Ryan and Mary Jane Brown are coming up to help me give you a cattle working clinic. They are all top hands and please read about them in their bios. Friday March 28th you should try to come to the ranch by late afternoon. You will drive and camp on the creek where the camping area is for the trail competition. (See directions when I get them up) We want to have a meeting with the participants to get to know you and discuss your working clinic weekend and practice on some roping skills. If you don't have a camper, check with me for rooms in the ranch guest house. Saturday March 29 - Everyone will load up and haul out to where we will ride and be ready to ride by 9. We will divide into several groups and ride out across the hills to the back end and gather the cows and calves and herd them towards the corrals. Each group will have one of the experienced cow hands with them and will be instructed on gathering, hearding and moving cattle over the hills and canyons. We will have lunch when we get the cattle to the corrals. We will then do some sorting the calves away from cows and work some calves. You will get an opportunity to get right in and help with sorting, branding, vaccinating, castrating, working a chute or some roping. We will work until it is quiting time around 5 because we have a dinner to get back to at 7 and you don't want to make the cooks wait for you. Sunday March 30th. Be ready to start work at the corrals by 9. Bring the cattle into the sorting pens and sort the calves off and then get to work on the calves. We will break for lunch work a little bit longer and quit around 3-4. If you really don't care if you help work calves. Let me know and if there are several who don't want to work calves I will arrange a trail ride. March 15th or 22nd (still deciding)  TRAIL RIDE/CONDITIONING CLINIC COST $50  LIMITED to 15 riders Working on more details still. You will ride with me over the ranch. If you are interested, I would like to know. Could also arrange for a ride on Sunday if there is enough interest. Dry camping or guest house is available. April 5 & 6 TRAIL CLINIC- limited to 10 cost- $200 with Mary Jane Brown and me You should try to get there early friday evening at the guest house. This clinic is geared towards training you and your horse for a better understanding of the skills you need. Helping you on areas you are having trouble with and developing advancing  skills. This type of work is beneficial for you in all areas of your riding whether you compete or not. You have this whole weekend to work with Mary Jane and myself. I have set up trail obstacles to work and train over and of course we have hills and open space to ride out. This training weekend is also scheduled before Cowboy Up On The Ranch and other competitions in order to give you an opportunity to tune up and condition. WE WILL RIDE. April 11, 12 &13 2008 Cowboy Up On The Ranch Cattle Drive and The trail competition on the ranch. Check for details on the Cowboy Up page April 25, 26 & 27 COW/CALF GATHERING and Working calves clinic cost $300 Saturday and Sunday lunches and a dinner saturday night is included. Joe Painter, Ryan and myself will be working with those that want to come this weekend and work with cattle. This is a repeat of what we did in March. We will sort off the calves that were already worked. These cattle gathering and working weekends is a real job that we will be doing. Everyone's safety is the utmost importance. The instructors/ranch hands will be incharge and you will help where your skill level enables you and everyone else to be safe. The health and safety of the cattle are also what we are taking care of. These cattle are the source of income for the rancher and we want to be sure that we do a good job. May 3   TRAIL RIDE/CONDITIONING CLINIC COST $50 Ride with me over the ranch. Still working on details. I would like to know if you are interested. Could set up a ride on Sunday if there is enough interest. Dry camping and guest house available.