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The Ultimate Horse Course

The Grand Opening of The Ultimate Horse Course on Saturday, June 7 launched the beginning of the season for Montana's only permanent Trail and Horsemanship Challenge Course, located at Montana Horses, Inc near Three Forks.  Over fifty participants, riders and walkers, turned out to try the Course, made of over 30 obstacles that simulate real trail challenges.  The Course prepares horses and riders to face bridges, water crossings, down timber, and also tests horse and rider's adeptness at jumps, slick rock, reining and roping, plus more.  Beginning Wednesday June 11, The Ultimate Horse Course is available for use Wednesdays through Sundays until December 1, or as long as the weather holds. A Schooling Challenge is scheduled for July 26 and the 2008 Ultimate Horse Course Challenge will be held September 6.  Watch the website www.montanahorses.com for current Course conditions and the webcam.  Call 406 285-3541 for details about the Course, training and conditioning rides, and now pasturing options for Course users.        

2008 Spring Drive - a Success!!!!!!

The Montana Horses Annual Spring Drive was a incredible success this year! For the FIRST TIME EVER we completed the gallop home with no mishaps. After inventory yesterday, all of the horses have been safely accounted for and we are now going about the business of our beginning season.  What an incredible crew we had.  Congratulations to you all and MANY THANKS.   
Here is the first of many photos that are filtering in.  Please comment here and share your 2008 experience and photos.  We'll do the same.  Watch for updates and places to post video and photos.  I'll be sending a participant list soon.  See you next year!
Kail & Renee

PRCA COWBOY COLIN STALLEY - Sponsored by Montana Horses

  Montana Horses is proud to announce our sponsorship of Colin Stalley, PRCA saddle bronc rider.  Just in time for the DODGE NATIONAL CIRCUIT FINALS, we'll be watching as he and other top qualifiers from the PRCA rodeo circuits across the country vie for the national title this month. 
  Colin comes from a long family line of ranching and rodeo cowboys and cowgirls and calls Riverton, WY his home.   This year, he'll be traveling across the country riding against the best cowboys in the world as they compete on their way to the National Finals Rodeo and the world championship.  We at Montana Horses offer our sponsorship exclusively to Colin to help him get there.  And we know he can.
  We've created a page on our website www.montanahorses.com where you can track Colin in the standings, see what rodeos he's headed to next, and get in on the exciting and competitive world of professional rodeo.  Plus, Colin will keep you updated here.  Talk to him about his tales from the road, ask him questions about saddle broncs, rodeo, or just about being a professional cowboy.    
    Up next for Colin Stalley:  RODEO AUSTIN TOUR RODEO on March 5-6 (Final Round March 15) then DODGE NATIONAL CIRCUIT FINALS in Pocotello, ID March 19-22.

  JOIN US IN SUPPORTING COLIN STALLEY - MONTANA HORSES RODEO COWBOY.
Good luck, Colin!

SPRING ROUNDUP AND DRIVE

The 2008 Spring Roundup and Drive is fully booked and staffed!    Click here for a general overview of information on our Annual Spring Roundup & Drive.  A complete list of riders and crew can be found on the website: click here to check out the participant list to see who is returning and who the new guys will be!  Also, comment here to let your friends know your plans, ask questions of returning guests, and post your favorite stories or photos.  This year's event is April 25-27, 2008 and the horses will be coming through town on April 26th.  See you there!

Kail's Corner

The very best horse wrecks and lies.
Hello, this is Kail Mantle from Montana Horses with the best wreck I've heard all year. First, let me start this segment by stating for the record that I am always disappointed when natural selection is interrupted. The times that I have interrupted it however, have been strictly for insurance premium reasons as I have no intention of dumbing down the gene pool by stepping in the way of evolution. Business is business and I don’t want blasted by a bunch of purists that think I don’t practice what I preach.

I mix a lot of horses and people each year and I’ve selected the best of the best, or worst of the best, or best of the worst…..or at least something that needed repeated for this slot.

Today’s untruth is entitled “The picket pin”.

Before I go any further I want to mention that I really did think the horse had been picketed before I sent him. Our story begins last summer when Cliff and Clay were going on a Mountain Man Rendezvous and needed some horses. The old white horse was a pretty good walker and Cliff decided to lead on him. Everything went pretty good until that evening when they erroneously did what I told them to do. “Pickett the old white horse and hobble the other because the white horse will sell out and leave if not tied up.” They blindly complied. They screwed the “Mountain Man” approved picket pin into the ground, tied the "well picket broke" white horse’s lead to 30 foot of rope, and then tied this to the picket pin, and then headed to camp for some Mountain Man Fluid and some grub. They never quite made it. It’s twilight. The horses are grazing peacefully. The crickets are chirping. Somewhere an owl hoots. Then something else. A snort, and then something that sounds like a snort, thundering hooves and then a loud tink. There is something very unmistakable about the sound a panicked horses running wide open through a meadow…..in the dark and in your direction. This in itself will cause a pulse increase but add 35 ft of rope and a 2 ft. sharpened dagger sparking and whipping in the night and you probably can’t talk……and they didn’t. Ole whitey blurs by Cliff and turns left. Cliff feels something on his leg and turns white. It not only wraps around his leg, but successfully half hitches itself around said appendage and then just sits there…….. waiting. Now, Cliff is 6’5 weighs 250 and is just standing there doing the math. Ole whitey is 16 hands 1100 lbs and doing somewhere around 23 mph. Things come tight and Cliff becomes a glider. Clay later told me he stepped it off at 15 yards from where Cliffs boot tracks end and his butt print begins. He said the gravel kind of looked like someone graded it into a 15’ long windrow. Long story short, Whitey stopped, snorted and instantly recalled that he was picket broke, Cliff rode on his left buttock the rest of the ride, and Clay hasn’t quit laughing since. Anyway thanks for your time and remember don’t listen to a damn thing I say.

Halloween Terror....

Hello All,
Hunting season sucks, so again I apologize that I have time to make this shit up.
Kail. 

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