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08/17/2024

Great Lesson with Greg D Robinson and CCLR - Christene’s Center Line Riders - LLC crew Lexi!
Thanks for coming guys!

Greg is here for a clinic through the weekend! Stop in and say hello!
Session/Lesson Audits is 25$
We have cold beverages and food! ☺️

07/24/2024

Due to extreme heat forecasted for tomorrow, we will not be riding,
Stay hydrated, stay cool, and keep those waters clean and filled!

05/31/2024

Here it is folks!
Get in touch with me to get your name on the list! This is going to be a fabulous clinic with a very experienced horseman, in and out of an arena.
Green/young horses, show help, general horsemanship, problem solving, you name it! All levels and all disciplines welcome!

Please message me with:
-your name
-phone number
-Day(s) you would like and specify if you want an AM or PM session(s)
(Do not need to register to audit)

*** If you will be traveling and need to overnight, please let me know ASAP so we can make arrangements for you and your horse***

Greg D Robinson
9 of Spades Horsemanship
Holzer Arena LLC

05/04/2024

Spring has sprung and the branding season is in full swing!
Palomino was started by us late last summer
Bay was started over the winter

Excited to be getting updates from owners! 🤍

If you have a horse that was in our program and are putting them to work now, drop the pictures in the comments below! 👇
We would love to keep up with their progress!

02/21/2024

Thankful for great property owners!

Please be aware as we head into spring!
We are all very blessed to be able to have use of this amazing facility!
Thank you Tanna and Vince for all your hard work for us!

02/20/2024

‼️5 THINGS YOU CAN DO BEFORE SENDING YOUR C**TS TO THE TRAINER ‼️

We get asked a lot from folks on our waiting list, “what can I start doing with my c**t before I send them?”
Great question!

1.) Make sure they are relatively easy to catch!
-this makes our lives easier, and we don’t have to spend time trying to catch your horse, instead we can use that time to teach them under saddle! Use your time wisely, to help us spend our time productively!

2.) Teach them to stand tied
-horses that already know how to stand tied, already know how to release to pressure and have started learning how to self soothe. We LOVE when babies come in already knowing how to stand tied. It makes saddling and handling just that much easier.

3.) Take them on walks!
-hand walk those babies or pony them around your property. It makes them that much more confident and that much better in hand and in a halter. Just 10-15 minutes a couple times a week does wonders for those baby brains!

4.) Pick up their feet!
-It’s a very simple task that most people skip! It’s one of the first things we do when we get your c**t to our barn: get control of those feet. If they already know how to pick them up and hold them, they are that much more ahead of the game!

5.) Groom them!
-make sure they are used to being touched all over! Spray them down with a hose if you like!

Don’t do anything you are uncomfortable with. Don’t saddle them for the first time if you aren’t keen on first saddlings or first rides. Don’t do a bunch of ground work if you’re not super sure what you are trying to achieve. 9/10 we have to re-do the ground work anyway for our program! Let that horse have a fresh slate when going to school ☺️ and if you want to learn how to do all those things, come on out and we will show you the ropes!

As always, if you have any questions, we are just a phone call or a message away!

02/02/2024

Due to us being sick, we decided to not host the drawing over Facebook live

but I have the winners!!

1/2 off 30 days is Megan Pederson

The Jacket: Megan Harkless

Thank you all so much for buying tickets and supporting our business! We look forward to seeing you all soon!

02/01/2024

We will be drawing our winners tonight!!
Make sure you have your tickets bought and paid for!

01/23/2024

Happy Stock Show everyone!
In honor of the shows starting over the weekend, our Raffle is now open!

‼️You need to have your tickets paid for before the drawing date to be eligible for the prizes‼️

We will be around at the stock show, so if online payment isn’t an option, we can meet up with you there!

Good luck and we will see you all soon!

01/19/2024

Heat wave at 12 Degrees today!!
We are back at it and enjoying the sunshine.

SPRING IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER! Soon horses will be shedding and meadow larks will be singing!

That means it’s time to start thinking about getting on the list for spring training spots.
Spots are going fast!

To help out with this,

We are holding a RAFFLE during Black Hills Stock Show!

GREAT PRIZES!
🤩 winner gets 1/2 off 30 days of training! 🤩

Stay tuned for the raffle to open!

01/11/2024

Due to extreme weather moving in, and for the safety of the horses and for our sanity 🤪
We will not be working horses until the temp rises next week.

This also means lessons are cancelled until further notice. Please get ahold of Raina to get back on the books or to re-schedule pickup/drop off if you are waiting on that as well!

Horses will be rotated in and out of the barn, plenty of hay, blankets where needed, and fresh water.

Please feel free to drop a blanket or any supplements off that you might want for your horse.

Stay warm everyone! Luckily it looks like the negatives will be short lived and we can’t wait to get back to riding! ☺️

12/29/2023

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and has enjoyed the holiday season!
With the New Year approaching fast, I wanted to get on here and say THANK YOU! To all our amazing clients! It’s been an amazing first 6 months OFFICIALLY operating as 9 of Spades Horsemanship in South Dakota! ♠️

We have been extremely busy and extremely blessed with good horses, good clients, and good weather. Keep an eye on our page! We will be announcing some clinic dates with some fabulous horseman and some fun activities for the 4H youth!

Just a reminder:
We are currently booking for spring of 2024 and filling up FAST already!!
We only have a few spots left open for March and April!
Please get a hold of me ASAP to reserve a spot for those spring months!
Don’t wait till the last minute to reserve a spot!

-Calving
-Outside Riding
-Brandings
-Some sale barn work

Thank you for your continued business and support! We look forward to working with you and your horse in 2024!

11/22/2023

Rudy
🤍For Sale Sneak Peek 🤍
Under the guidance of Randy Guggisberg at the Sliding G; Rudy and I got it together and are working on some bigger and better things!
We learned A LOT with Randy and can’t appreciate his mentorship enough.

Watch out for this young gelding! He’s for sale and going to go fast! If I could own him I absolutely would. He’s one you get excited about saddling in the morning!

11/16/2023

Lots of new horses and c**ts in this month!

The bay is Curly- 4 year old here to start

The sorrel horse is Rudy-with us for a tune up and first time being a pony horse. He did absolutely amazing, quiet and honest. (psssst he’s for sale and really really nice. More pics and videos of him coming soon!!)

11/07/2023

Picture One and Two.

First saddling for this handsome guy 😍

Let them be curious, let them be cautious.
Don’t sneak around them, don’t dumb it down for them.

They are toddlers essentially.
They ARE going to learn that 2+2=4 in school. Plain and simple.

But it’s going to be a lot harder for them to learn that equation if you let them think that, 2+2=(5-2)+attitude.

Treat them fair, let them be curious, let them be hesitant, but never change the question.

Reward the try, but praise the CORRECT answer.

This guys first saddling was quiet, fair, and thoughtful. Just how we expect the first ride to go. Foundation is everything

10/27/2023

Grumpy cause of the cold and always hungry!
Us too Pickles, us too…

We are all moved into our new facility here at Holzer Arena in Caputa. And VERY thankful to have indoor facilities!

If you are waiting to hear about your horse, your spot on the waiting list, or sales info, I will be contacting you over the weekend! Thanks everyone for being so patient as we got moved, settled in, and right to work! We appreciate your business!

10/19/2023

Always fun when we get to work one together!

10/06/2023

We love getting updates on horses that came out of our program!
Thank you to the Hicks family for trusting us with your gelding!
We are so happy you are happy!

“Buckshot”
30 day start

09/13/2023

Little bit of a long post but we are doing some cool things right now!!!

We have quite the different theme in our string of incoming horses right now. You all know Aries, well we have a few that are similar to her.

Most a little weary of humans and mostly unhandled. We truly enjoy the challenge of getting them connected and trusting. We almost prefer, that the older they are, the less they are handled. Then it seems that you are only fighting instinct and genetics VS instinct, genetics AND human error/interaction. Human error as in no boundaries, no respect of personal space, nipping, running off, running over ect. It’s not always purposefully instilled, but it’s there. They become friends, companions, “our little babies” and we let them get away with some little things here and there that become bad habits. Keep your horses accountable. It’s easier to “correct” (re-direct/train) pure horse behavior than it is to correct human influenced horse behavior.

IF you have a young one you are wanting to send off to get started, have a plan in mind of who you are going to send it to. Do your re-search. Makes sure their plan/program aligns with what you are looking for. Build a relationship. And then PLEASE talk to your c**t starter about what you should and shouldn’t do for “pre-training/preparation.” Everyone has a different method, and I promise you, having that conversation early on and being honest, will save you money and time, and save your c**t starter/trainer headache and frustration. Let your expectations be known early, have those tougher conversations early, but be open-minded to timelines set by your trainer. THEN when the horse is ready to come home, please take at least one lesson from your trainer on said horse. Learn how they cue, how they handle, what they set as their standard. Don’t expect a broke kids horse after 60-90 days.
It’s an investment and a process, not a cookie cutter nor is it black and white.

With ALL that being said: we would like to introduce you to another hardly handled c**t that we are REALLY excited about

We call this one Boss, he had a halter on him just a few times and mostly had to be roped to catch even after he came here.
He was an orphan foal but never hand fed (would love to have a discussion with different trainer’s experiences with orphan foals.)
Boss definitely was, and still is, pretty watchy and weary of us 2 leggers. We are slowly but surely building that trust up and getting through the basics. He is a fast learner and extremely eager to do the right thing, even though he isn’t sure if he wants to be a bff 🤣 he’s curios and play driven and really wants to please despite his natural fight or in his case, mostly flight instinct.

Today he was caught in the big pen with a halter with ease, went through ground work like a champion and then he got hosed down, fly sprayed, all four feet picked up and picked, tied in the barn and brushed all over without hardly twitching an ear. It’s doesn’t seem like much but the effort and patience it took to get to this point is huge, by both 4 and 2 legger. It’s the TRY from him that counts the most.

Basics are a huge factor to making a partner. They gotta trust you, and you have to trust them.

We are excited to see how Boss progresses as we are gearing him up to riding!

09/11/2023

Day 2 with Aries
Haltered, loaded, and here at the place!
Great job Luke getting this mare so far in just the two days you worked with her.
She learns quick, time to become a citizen!

09/10/2023

We love a Cinderella story!
This mare has quite the history.
8 years old. Untouched. Unhandled. Very sentimental horse to the owner for so many heart touching reasons.
By the end of the first day, Luke was able to pet her all over and lead her by the rope.
We are really looking forward to how Aries progresses after we get her to the place!

09/05/2023

We hope everyone had a fabulous Labor Day weekend!
We took a small getaway to the mountains, and we are away until tomorrow morning. If you have texted or called for updates, we will get back to you as soon as we are in full service and back at the barn!
Thanks to our awesome chore help for making it possible for us to be gone!
I will get caught up on horse updates, pics and videos, calendars, scheduling, all the fun stuff tomorrow!

09/02/2023

Kadoka SD has been so great to us and we have cherished our summer here. Between spending time and working with family, to re-uniting with old friends, Kadoka has been the perfect kick start to 9 of Spades. We don’t take lightly to what our family and the community has done for us here. We were welcomed with open arms and taken care of like we have lived here our entire lives. And our clients… YOU GUYS ROCK! We couldn’t have asked for a better set of clients for our first official few months in business. You know who you are, and we couldn’t be more thankful for you… But the winters of SD are pretty hard on a guy making a living with the four leggers, as most of you know…

We are really excited to announce that we are moving the business to Caputa! Holzer Arena LLC runs a great operation and we are so thrilled to be working with them!
This facility gives us opportunity to keep operations moving along through the winter time!
We also will be able to do more on property and off property lessons/riding!

C**t starts, problem horses, tune-ups, lessons!
Please don’t hesitate to call, message, text for our rates and openings!

Thank you Kadoka! Thank you Bill and Jacque Weller 🤍 We love you guys so much and are so thankful that we were able to spend the summer here with you guys and it’s hard to leave this beautiful place.

Hello Caputa. We are excited to make new connections, relationships and memories with you!

08/19/2023

‼️WE HAVE OPENINGS‼️

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have some openings coming up!!

ALSO!!! We will not be shutting down this winter!!!!
We will be taking horses in as long as you send them! We also will not be shutting down our lesson program, if you are willing to ride in the weather, we are too!!

We are also offering a LIMITED FEW
✨90 day✨ DISCOUNTED contracts over the winter for C**T STARTS OR YOUNG HORSE DEVELOPMENT ONLY! Get them while you can! *discount only applies to training. Rates may be subject to change depending on fluctuating feed and board cost*

This is the time to sign up to get those young ones the start they need to be ready to go to work in the spring for calving and branding!

Give us a call or text 605-515-4396 for more information!

08/09/2023

What’s our favorite number???
11 all day everyday.

Super happy with how these young ones are coming along 🙏🏻

We will be in Hermosa this Friday (The 11th 😉) for the ranch horse show and ranch rodeo! Looking forward to catching up with everyone and taking the horses to see something new!

07/21/2023

Second ride on a nice 4 year old filly we have!

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Rapid City, SD
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Rudy

Rudy 🤍For Sale Sneak Peek 🤍 Under the guidance of Randy Guggisberg at the Sliding G; Rudy and I got it together and are working on some bigger and better things! We learned A LOT with Randy and can’t appreciate his mentorship enough. Watch out for this young gelding! He’s for sale and going to go fast! If I could own him I absolutely would. He’s one you get excited about saddling in the morning!

We love getting updates on horses that came out of our program! Thank you to the Hicks family for trusting us with your gelding! We are so happy you are happy! “Buckshot” 30 day start

Colts teaching colts! The sorrel (Boog) came to us with about 6 rides on him here to gain experience and fine tune his handle. This is the first time he has ever been asked to work in this way, but all the tools he needed for this job have been taught to him. Boog exceeded all my expectations putting him in this situation and really took a liking to being a pony horse. The palomino (Hickok) is here for a start and to see all the things. He will go in a using string for this coming fall work. Being taught to lead beside a horse and move off of different angled pressure is a key component to making well rounded ranch horses. BONUS POINTS: we get Hickok out of the roundpen for a warm up, change up his routine, and get to train on another horse in the process. Anything you can do on foot, you should do on horseback. Makes you handier and your horses handier! We have such a good minded string, great clients, and great weather! We love to give these youngins a job! Denny Lottman Donna Enders

Good lil first ride back on a very nice minded colt! Trigger has had only a handful of rides and is going back to work like a champ! We were fortunate enough to be able to put a light start on this colt at a clinic about a year ago, and the foundation we started with then, set him up for success now! Donna Enders #nineofspadeshorsemanship #ColtStarting