I am an Equine Canada Certified Western Competition Coach, a Judge and quine appraiser, an International Mountain Trail Judge and trainer. I have recently built a 160 x 80' indoor riding arena, and offer lessons to clinics to groups and individuals. I have raised, trained and shown many of my own APHA champions to earn Superiors and Top 20 APHA Leaders list. Many of these horses moved on to youth
, amateurs and novice owners to earn superiors for them. The only thing more rewarding than doing well on your home grown, home trained show horse was watching someone else with that horse have show pen successes. I ride and train with a variety of clinicians from around the world and love learning new techniques and upgrading skills. I have all around experience riding and training both english and western, mountain trail challenges, ranch horse events, and have cattle penned, team roped and hunted on horseback. I love mountain packing and getting deep into the mountains on horseback for days on end. I have 25 years of Equine veterinary medicine experience. When Painted River Ranch was at the height of production (My late husband Bruce & I) Bred 20 mares and stood 3 Breeders trust stallions. Since back surgery last spring, I have downsized considerably to just 1 broodmare and use frozen semen collected from our 3X World Champion Stallion, Pistol Packin Frekles who was recently gelded in the fall of 2020. We still have limited doeses of frozen semen available for him. My retirement finds me now riding and breeding my own horses and helping other people with their horses to progress in a wide variety of disciplines. Watching them have success and progress to competition levels is very rewarding for me.
