Broken Bow Ranch

02/28/2025

What not to wear to the ranch! We applaud them for trying though!

Not here to Trash Talk anyone, just offer assistance!
I've worked with a few ad agencies and clothing companies to help them avoid these kinds of pictures. (If you need assistance email us)
This is why it's important to have a Western Image Consultant on your shoots. Pictures or video.
Hat on Backwards and Chaps on backwards....
It's "Kool To Be Cowboy" but if you're not sure, just ask someone!
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02/27/2025

Pink Stanley for the win!

This is Sandy. Her day went to hell in the proverbial handbasket - whatever that is- early and it hasn’t hit bottom yet. She’s sitting in the parking lot of The Walmart giving herself a pep talk to go in. Maybe there will be Robin Eggs candy, she tells herself. Fine. But I’m taking my Stanley. There were, in fact, Robin Eggs candies and she bought the big bag. She bought eggs, feeling like a winner that they were in stock and less than a week’s grocery budget. She was standing in line wondering who the people on the magazines were, because she’s hip, you know. The man came running out of the women’s clothing department with a purse that, honestly wasn’t his style. He saw the closed checkout next to her about the time she saw the security guard round the corner. Purse man neared and gave her the order, through expletives, to move her giant backside. She cleaned up puke in the bed that morning, dealt with a flat tire, dropped the coffee pot, and hit her head all before 8 a.m., and purse guy pushed her over the edge. She looked him right in the eye, told him to watch his filthy mouth, and swung her pink Stanley, clotheslining him like a cartoon. That’ll teach him to call her fat.

02/27/2025

This would be an excellent opportunity for the right person.

02/27/2025

It is 2025, in case any of us has forgotten.

In my neck of the woods, both professional horsemanship and the serious crafting of good gear continue to be largely male domains. It surprises me to find that even now, we women can be quick to turn our backs on our achieving sisters.

I’ve heard the same thing from legit women farmers. “Oh, good for you!” people will gush. “Are you helping your dad/husband/son?”

We’ll stick within our closed girl groups, cheering on our pros of choice, icons who most often are men. We mightn’t loudly decry other women, per se, but we’ll stay strangely silent when presented with their accomplishments. For example, we’ll pay far more for a saddle made by a man, than a woman. Ditto with the clinicians we'll follow. Or the training of horses and the starting of colts.

We’ll watch, we’ll judge and we’ll stand back. Too often, when we speak up, it is not with words we would be proud to claim. We’ll triangulate our opinions, sharing them with a confidante, rather than speak up. We’ll privately snipe at other women, rather than say beautiful words that can be shared openly.

A friend has just talked about the bullying that is rampant within her circle of otherwise mature women. This mean-spiritedness has long been the bailiwick of school girls. It takes the form of exclusion. Silent shunning. It saddens me that this happens, at all. The shameful part is that we’ll continue on with this behaviour, as we age. Exclusion is a way to hurt, to keep someone in their place.

As a bullying tactic, it is just as effective in real life, as it is, online.

We won’t invite someone to our party because they wouldn’t fit in. We won’t follow or like the work of anyone who is ‘only popular because she is pretty’… or not pretty enough… or is too young… or too old… or just the wrong body shape with which to align ourselves.

We women like to say that men keep us in our places but more and more, I’m seeing that the damage is being done by those within our circle. Surprisingly, age has nothing to do with it.

I’m looking forward to a time when we are all judged on the quality of our work within this business, period. To a time when our s*x has nothing to do with it.

Though well-meant, the current trend of awarding special awards for female riders, horse sales with only lady consignors and bidders, events meant just for women by women, in order to build morale, is a sad statement about where we're really at in society. Whenever we join groups specially formed to 'lift up other women', I've learned that these are usually the times I've returned home, feeling used and abused.

I don’t know how to change this dark and shameful side of the sisterhood. Honesty has me admit that I have received nothing but encouragement and kind advice from the large majority of men in my circle. Not so, with many of the women, the same ones who are often loud with their cries of inequality in public.

Whether you’re a woman building saddles and other good gear, training and showing horses, teaching other riders or writing books on horsemanship, be prepared to be sideswiped by other women. If you’re among the women who subversively do the excluding, or the mean discussions in your little groups, I can only ask, what is your payoff? Because nobody does anything without some sort of personal gain.

The bottom line? Girl, if you’re being harshly judged by other women—or you’re being professionally ignored—hold your head high. Forge on alone. Put in the time, use your detractors to fuel your resolve.

Hone your craft. Then, may the best man—or woman—win.

Photo: Ramblin’ Rose Creative.

02/20/2025

Starting to post some from Fort Worth. legendary

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02/19/2025

Spring is right around the corner! Promise.

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02/19/2025

Misti Booker

ThorSport announces the expansion and acquisition of ThorSport Ranch in Aubrey, Texas!

We are thrilled with excitement and honor to join in on the legacy of ownership of this immaculate property which was formally known as Cardinal Reining Horses and Green Valley prior to that.

Acquiring and expanding is the name of the game for ThorSport and sister companies: Tenda Horse Products, FarmPaint, ThorTurf, and Equine Surgical Center and look forward to the new vision and future with now TEXAS roots!

A full circle moment as the first western performance horse purchased for ThorSport, Turn Down For What, resided at this property seven years ago when first entering the western performance horse arena!

02/18/2025

02/16/2025

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