Napa Valley Horsemens Association

12/11/2024

Get your Boots on and come join us Friday, November 15th at the Napa Valley Horsemen's Association Club House for some fun line dancing and mingling from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM. Non-Members welcome!

06/11/2024

Please join us for the Napa Valley Horsemen's annual Holiday Hoedown - Mix & Mingle! This is open to non-members, so please invite your friends and family. Details in flyer.
Link to buy tickets: https://fs30.formsite.com/ke6ocomcastnet/timy9vr2nq/index

📆 Saturday, December 7th 2024 from 6PM to 10PM
📍 1200 Foster Road, Napa CA

05/11/2024

It's time to get Line Dancing again! Come early, hang out, dress casual & have fun! Open to non-members so bring your friends.

📍 1200 Foster Rd, Napa CA
📅 Friday, November 15th 2024 from 6:30 - 8PM

15/10/2024

https://truewesthorsemanship.com/clinic-napa-vaquero/

This Ben Longwell clinic is suitable for those currently riding in the traditional vaquero style hackamore or have purchased one and are interested in transitioning/introducing their horse to it.

06/10/2024

Coming up next weekend! Please join NVHA and Jerry Tindell for an intro to working cattle clinic. Sign up with Jerry https://jerrytindell.com/event/intro-to-working-cattle-napa-ca

John from Buckaroo Leather will be on site with his goods on Saturday only, bring your pocket books and come shop! https://buckarooleather.com/

01/10/2024

Coming soon!

Our final Faux Show fun day. We’ve added a children’s maker market as well, with little entrepreneurs selling. We will have a costume contest along with the show and our Rusty Spur snack shack will be serving food (for purchase).

📍 Where: Napa Horsemen’s 1200 Foster Road Napa, CA
📅 When: October 27th 2024
⏰ Show starts at 9am, vendors 10:30-12:30

12/09/2024

Mark your calendar📅

27/08/2024

We are thrilled to have Jerry Tindell here with an Intro to Working Cattle clinic! Information on the flyer.

📍 Where: 1200 Foster Road, Napa CA
📆 When: October 11-13th, 2024

26/08/2024

Join Novato Horsemen for their Boots and Buckles dinner and dance!

📆 September 7th from 5:30 - 11
📍 600 Bugeia Lane, Novato CA

14/08/2024

Join us for a BEGINNER Horse Archery Clinic
*All equipment will be provided
*Being your horse, your enthusiasm and a sense of humor!

📆 When: September 7th
📍 Where: Napa Valley Horsemen's 1200 Foster Rd, Napa

Please use the form below to signup✅

Thanks for your interest in our all levels horse archery clinic. This clinic will be limited to 12 people. Included here you will find: 1) Clinic application 2) Membership application (required for our insurance) 3) Youth & adult liability waiver CLINIC INFO: DATE: Saturday, September 7th TIME: 10:0...

13/08/2024

Join us for a 3 Day Vaquero and Hackamore Clinic with Ben Longwell!

📆 When: November 1st - 3rd
📍 Where: Napa Valley Horsemen's 1200 Foster Rd, Napa CA

All information can be found here https://truewesthorsemanship.com/clinic-napa-vaquero/

08/07/2024

There is a local obstacle/trail challenge happening at Skyline Park soon! Equine Trail Sports offers in hand, arena and trail riding competitions.

https://www.equinetrailsports.com/event_group/12822/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0StV8uI57Mb-0B074WzHPkZvId2r7mN_DmWnzj8wEYRI1rWzmjg9Ovl2A_aem_pWaS_IC3CZC-vFedRFytyw

Equine Trail Sports event at Skyline Wilderness Park from Saturday, July 20 to Sunday, July 21

01/07/2024

Tonight! General meeting. Potluck starts at 6:45, meeting begins at 7:30

1200 Foster Road, Napa CA.

24/06/2024

The NVHA Mustang adoption is officially wrapped up. We are overwhelmed with the outpouring of support from our membership and community for this event.

We are just beginning to gather all results but the most important result is in. 20 horses/b***os were adopted at this event! Thank you to all who were a part of this event and know your efforts helped to home the largest number of animals this BLM facility has seen in quite some time. You are all rockstars and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support.

Photo credit: Willow Williams

20/06/2024

Thinking of adopting a wild one this weekend? Read the story of Shoshoni who was adopted at the last adoption in 2018. Come and see her and her family this weekend as she returns to the event to demonstrate how versatile Mustangs are.

On June 15, 2018, we went to Napa Valley Horsemen’s Association to look at the mustangs with no intention of adopting as we had horses at home. We saw the yearlings and immediately fell in love with the “soft eyes” of one of the fillies. I had always wanted a mustang growing up, but it never worked out. Well, on this day I decided to take a step and adopt this filly. It has been one of the most rewarding things I have done. We decided to name her Shoshoni as she is from the Triple B HMA which is located about 30 miles northwest of Ely, Nevada, in White Plains County. (The Shoshone Native American tribe lived in this area.) In the beginning I spent many hours sitting in the pen and relaxing with Shoshoni to gain her trust. She was curious and wanted to be with us. She liked it when other people came to visit. We were so lucky. We spent the first couple of years exposing her to different things; i.e., halter breaking, leading, brushing, picking up her feet, tying, trailer loading/unloading, saddling/unsaddling, etc. We decided to have a cutting horse foundation put on her when she was started. She can be ridden with just your legs! She even learned how to work cows! We discovered through all these activities that she was smart, receptive of new things and most of all devoted to us. This has been and is a wonderful experience to work with and have a mustang be a part of our family. We just love her!

18/06/2024

We love a good Mustang adoption story. Here is the story of Wild Bill. Come out and meet Wild Bill this weekend and start your own adoption journey.

Wild Bill came into our lives in 2013. Our good friend had adopted him with her dad in 2010 in Beaumont Texas. She had lost her last horse and was ready to get a new one. Her dad had told her about a BLM Mustang adoption that was going to be nearby. She had taken a trainer with her and they picked out 3 horses for my friend to choose from. Wild Bill was the lucky winner!

They liked him because he was smaller 13.3 and a 5yr old and her dad who was 81 at the time would be handling him. Her dad had a ranch and had Quarter Horses but had always dreamed of having a Mustang.
They took their time once they got him to let him relax and get used to humans. They hired a trainer to get him gentled and my friend swung her leg over for the first time 1yr later. She brought him back to California and that is when my husband and I saw him for the first time.

We really liked him and had told her if she ever wanted to sell him to let us know. Turns out that she ended up having to go to Europe for at least 3 years and asked us if we would care for him while she was gone. We said yes and the rest is history:-) After a year, she asked if we wanted to keep him. She had decided to move closer to her family up north. I was so happy because I had fallen in love with him, and I didn’t know how I was going to give him back. LOL!

He has been such a wonderful horse. He is truly my heart horse and has always been a real sweetheart.

These horses are so versatile and special. It has been an honor to have Wild Bill in our life! We have really spent hundreds of hours of groundwork and riding lessons, but it is priceless to see the results.

17/06/2024

Buckaroo Leather will be joining us this Saturday at our Mustang adoption event! Come out and support the wonderful vendors we have for this event. Leather works, jewelry, and horse and b***o items just to name a few. See you this Saturday.

You can preview Buckaroo's merchandise here: https://www.buckarooleather.com

15/06/2024

Coming up!

Wild horses and b***os are coming to California! Bureau of Land Management - California will be at the Napa Valley Horsemen’s Association Arena, 1200 Foster Road, in Napa, California June 22 and 23.

We'll be offering eight mares and geldings aged 4 to 5, and 10 yearling fillies and geldings. A total of 14 b***os of all ages, including yearlings, will also be available for adoption.

Learn more about this event: https://www.blm.gov/announcement/blm-offer-wild-horses-b***os-adoption-napa

Find more wild horse and b***o adoption opportunities: BLM.gov/whb/events