CALGARY STAMPEDE Kicking Off Another 100 Years / P16 MEET JON GARNER Competitions Manager at Spruce Meadows / P8 GETTING the BIG STOP
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$2.50 Vol. 36 / Issue 6 / June 2013 www.horsesall.com Inspired by people and horses RODEO’S GREATEST REPORTER DWAYNE ERICKSON The passing of a rodeo icon / p5 SPECIAL FEATURE CALGARY STAMPEDE Kicking off another 100 years / p16 MEET JON GARNER Competitions Manager at Spruce Meadows / p8 GETTING THE BIG STOP Publication Mail Agreement 40069240 Kade Mills breaks down the 3 fundamentals / p33 2 HORSES ALL • JUNE 2013 HORSESALL.COM 3D BULLRIDING INC. 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That’s just a par- TWO-BITS FROM A craig.couillard@ TWO-BIT COWBOY first few working cow horse classes with tial list. Vance. I took in the same mare and we The next week I brought along a little fbcpublishing.com Craig Couillard - Editor were totally out of our element. I was note book and started taking notes… lots definitely the dunce of the class… hands of notes. That’s helped. Thank you so much Dianne down. Each week I feel Bacardi and me mov- (Finstad) for the great article ’ve been feeling like a real dunce lately. It’s not that Vance or any of the other ing forward. I’m trying to unlearn 10 years about Bruce (Robinson) and Fiesta Ever felt like the village idiot? participants made me feel that way. of bad habits with her, learn better tech- Royale (April, 2013). Job well I For those of you that follow my col- Bacardi and I are just so far behind. niques, and then try and teach her these done! umn, you recall that my New Year’s resolu- Most of them are riding horses that a new cues. We are definitely a work in prog- — Laurel Thompson tion was to get off the couch and get more professional trainer has put a solid foun- ress but I like the direction we are going. via Facebook time in the saddle. dation on so it’s more them catching up to I recently read a quote by Buck Bran- This past winter I took in a couple of the level of their horses. For me, I need to naman in the May, 2013 issue of West- I received the October, 2012 Extreme Cowboy sessions at Okotoks Ag learn it first before I can expect Bacardi to ern Horseman that sums it up for me, “All issue. You all put out a very nice Society. get it. you have to do is try a couple of things publication — makes me want to Then I signed up for a six-week clinic Vance has been great about working that you’re not very good at with a horse. head North! I’m tickled my poem on Tuesday nights with champion cut- with me. He sometimes he gives me my That’ll humble you up pretty quick.” was displayed so well. Thanks a ter and working cow horse trainer Vance own exercises to do while the others do There was a little positive affirmation bunch. Kaglea. more advanced maneuvers. But I have to moment when my wife Kim and I rode on — Kay Kelly, Apline, Texas Now I’ve been riding for nearly 30 years, say it’s like getting wax crayons to colour the 2nd Annual Blackfoot Trail Ride for via e-mail and have had lots of real life experience in with while the rest get to use paint. Cancer on the Siksika Nation. I’ve done the saddle. 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