Dana Hokana Performance Horses

Dana Hokana Performance Horses Dana offers easy to understand, real life answer to transform you and your horse.
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Dana’s kind and humane training methods are guaranteed to help you be a success no matter what your goal with your horse is. She can take you to the winners circle or take you from the ground up to develop your horse into a fun, willing, responsive horse to ride.

Shaping your horse for the set up ……
12/17/2024

Shaping your horse for the set up ……

12/16/2024

🐴 If the head and neck have to rock up and down to balance the horse, then that horse isn’t really lifting through their back and body. In a good lope off they should lift through their loin, step up behind, lift up and go.

In this video we are working on body balance…
A good lope off transition needs: 1. Position 2. Lift 3. Impulsion
In order to get those 👆🏼 you need to be aware of your horses body.

If I feel my horse losing their balance in their stops or being on their front end, I will draw them to the ground. This isn’t high stress. It’s like going to the gym, this is her maintenance work. This is helping her to be the best mare she can be. I am helping her skill level but I’m also strengthening, lifting, stretching her body to do it and I’m helping her accept my cues.

This exercise will build her skill level, build her balance, build her strength.
I don’t care what event you do… This exercise will help your horse lope off like a CHAMPION. 🏆

🔔 Stay Tuned for more videos on this FIVE part series 🛑

12/11/2024

🐴 How many of you have needed a better lope off transition with your horse? I’m telling you transitions are so important no matter what event you do.

To teach your horse to correctly lope off... I want to go over 3️⃣ factors in this video that are involved in the lope off.

A good lope off transition will improve your score in every single event that you do, it'll improve your score in any event and it'll improve your ride.

Even though I am on a Pleasure horse here, we do the same transitions for our All Around Horses, Ranch Horses and our Reining Horses.

🔔 Stay Tuned for more videos on this FIVE part series 🛑

Day Two ✌🏼 of the Temecula Ranch Clinic 🙏🏼We have had such a phenomenal time! There has been such a huge amount of growt...
12/08/2024

Day Two ✌🏼 of the Temecula Ranch Clinic 🙏🏼

We have had such a phenomenal time! There has been such a huge amount of growth already in such a short time. I am so proud of each of these riders.

We are off to another GREAT day of learning 👏🏼

Day One ☝🏼 for the Temecula Ranch Clinic We started the morning with breakfast and “round table” talk where we discussed...
12/07/2024

Day One ☝🏼 for the Temecula Ranch Clinic

We started the morning with breakfast and “round table” talk where we discussed backgrounds and goals of each rider.

I am excited for this group of riders and all the we will go over and accomplish. 🙏🏼

12/04/2024

🎄 Gus would be the most handsome gift with a red ribbon around his neck 🎁

Here is Gus, ridden by an eleven year old - packing her around and being the good boy that he is! He would be a spectacular small fry horse in addition to the many things that Gus can offer to someone! 🙏🏼

💙 HES GOT IT GOIN ON aka "Gus" 💪🏼
2016 15.3+ AQHA Bay Gelding
Winnies W***y x One Cylinder Short

🏆 2x Congress Champion
🏆2024 Reserve World Champion at the AQHA Youth World
🏆2023 + 2024 Top 15 at the AQHA Youth World in the L2 Finals
🏆2023 + 2024 Top 15 at the AQHA Youth World in the L3 Finals
🏆2024 Bronze Champion at the L1 West Championship Show
🏆 Multiple Circuit Champion and/or Reserve Circuit Champion at every major show.. all in Western Pleasure

Someone will be so lucky to have the opportunity to ride this special horse. He has been amazing in my program and has been an amazing show partner for Sydnee and taken her so far, won many awards with her and has been Circuit or Reserve Circuit at every major show.

Gus is VERY competitive in the Western Pleasure pen but his talent doesn't stop there. He shows great potential for the All Around events and is beautiful over the trail poles with so much NATURAL talent.

Just take a look for yourself in these videos.
He will be an open caliber All Around horse and a big time contender and have a lot of wins for someone.

We would LOVE to keep this special boy in my program.
This horse will take you far and be a great show partner! 🦄

📍 Temecula, CA.
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❤️ It is my heart’s desire to help people develop a long-term horse that stays willing and happy with his job, and to cr...
12/02/2024

❤️ It is my heart’s desire to help people develop a long-term horse that stays willing and happy with his job, and to create a lasting partnership.🙏🏼

⭐️ I strive to help teach people how to develop unity with their horse in and out of the show ring. This is done through the effective and fair use of a rider’s hands, seat, body and legs, in a kind way, to ultimately become one with your horse. In addition, I purpose to develop ultimate body control of the horse. My goal is to have a natural, fluid mover with lift and flow. I want to achieve excellent movement and a willing partner. I feel that it is so important for riders to know that they can do it too! Whether you’re training your horse yourself or riding with a trainer, you have the ability to achieve success riding in the show ring, on the trail, on cattle, speed events, or anything that you aspire to do with your horse.

♦️That is why I have created and developed a phenomenal DVD series that is specific and topic related to you and your horse. ♦️That is why I created Team Hokana Video Club, an online monthly membership with videos from "in the arena" sessions that show the real stuff of what goes on and how to achieve and fix a problem horse ALL WHILE STILL BUILDING AND CREATING A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR HORSE!!
It's possible... It's possible with knowledge, correct knowledge. Knowledge I am so happy to share with you.

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J O I N  US for this great clinic👏🏻For EIGHT years in a row, Dana has been voted worldwide LEADING CLINICIAN OF THE YEAR...
11/26/2024

J O I N US for this great clinic👏🏻
For EIGHT years in a row, Dana has been voted worldwide LEADING CLINICIAN OF THE YEAR by the prestigious Reader's Choice Award, with more than 80,000 votes! 🗳️

Dana has trained and helped many horse and rider teams to be CHAMPIONS in the show arena and outside of the show arena, whether it is at some of the most prestigious horse shows in the world to 4H or even trail riders. Dana will give you personalized one-on-one help for you and your horse, no matter where you are at, or what your needs are. DANA CAN HELP YOU!! 🫵🏻
Dana is dedicated to helping the horse and rider team become one and achieve their goals. She will add to your tool box the knowledge you need to succeed with your horse, to become a team and partner with your horse! 🙏🏼

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐚!❤️We couldn't do it without you. Your love, dedication and heart for the horse industry is unmatched...
11/25/2024

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐚!❤️
We couldn't do it without you.
Your love, dedication and heart for the horse industry is unmatched. You have the biggest heart for people and horses. You are dedicated to helping the horse and the rider. You give of yourself in such a huge way and don't ever expect anything in return. You just want to help people - Truly and genuinely to help! You give of yourself continually. Thank you isn't enough to express our sincere gratitude for you as a human.

You are such an example in your walk of life.
You are a voice to the horse industry!

We love you, and we greatly appreciate you!!

Love,
Hokana Family & Team

😉 We've had people asked where to send a gift...
𝘗𝘢𝘺𝘗𝘢𝘭: 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘏𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘢@𝘢𝘰𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘮𝘰: @𝘩𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘴

J O I N  US for this great clinic👏🏻For EIGHT years in a row, Dana has been voted worldwide LEADING CLINICIAN OF THE YEAR...
11/19/2024

J O I N US for this great clinic👏🏻

For EIGHT years in a row, Dana has been voted worldwide LEADING CLINICIAN OF THE YEAR by the prestigious Reader's Choice Award, with more than 80,000 votes! 🗳️

Dana has trained and helped many horse and rider teams to be CHAMPIONS in the show arena and outside of the show arena, whether it is at some of the most prestigious horse shows in the world to 4H or even trail riders. Dana will give you personalized one-on-one help for you and your horse, no matter where you are at, or what your needs are. DANA CAN HELP YOU!! 🫵🏻

Dana is dedicated to helping the horse and rider team become one and achieve their goals. She will add to your tool box the knowledge you need to succeed with your horse, to become a team and partner with your horse! 🙏🏼

🏆 So proud of this incredible team!! 🥹Way to go Bree Hokana and Pleasure With Class aka “Gracie”! Breathtaking mare and ...
11/12/2024

🏆 So proud of this incredible team!! 🥹

Way to go Bree Hokana and Pleasure With Class aka “Gracie”! Breathtaking mare and you show her so beautifully!!!

World Champion Level One Champion of Champions Amateur Western Pleasure! 🏆🏆

👏🏼 CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 SO proud of you and Mandy! Command Those Leggs “Mandy” + Bree Hokana Top 5 + 3rd in the NSBA in the...
11/07/2024

👏🏼 CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 SO proud of you and Mandy!

Command Those Leggs “Mandy” + Bree Hokana
Top 5 + 3rd in the NSBA in the L1 Champion of Champions in the Ranch Riding at the AQHA World Show!!👏🏼

With only a day to get ready, due to some unforeseen travel circumstances and prolonging a day of coming in due to the severe weather and tornados that were touching down and the advise from contenders at the show, we held off just one more day. That had us coming in and only giving us a day to get Mandy ready. On top of that all, this is Bree’s (approximately) 6th time at three different shows, showing in the Ranch Riding. I am so so proud of you both. You put in the work to get here and you laid out a great ride!

🎉 We are so excited to CONGRATULATION Madison Fletcher (and family) on the acquisition of GOLD STRIKKE aka "Striker". We...
10/29/2024

🎉 We are so excited to CONGRATULATION Madison Fletcher (and family) on the acquisition of GOLD STRIKKE aka "Striker". We have loved this special c**t since the day he was born and just KNEW that he had to go to a special kind of home. That's when Christine Fletcher messaged us about Striker for her fourteen year old daughter to have as a step up horse and told us of how Madison, "loves pushing herself to learn and gain as much experience as she can with her horses." 💛

This new adventure will be a GREAT JOURNEY with Striker, Madison (and family) and Dana. Striker will remain here and Madison will be coming to ride in Dana's upcoming December clinic on one of Dana's horses. ⭐️

🙏🏼 This is such a GREAT fit as a whole! We are excited to be apart of this journey and excited to see the growths and many wins that these two will have in the show pen some day. 👏🏻🙏🏼

💔 RIP PRECIOUS 399 Queen of the Tetons 👑This has been a very sad week for us, as we found out that the matriarch, the 28...
10/25/2024

💔 RIP PRECIOUS 399 Queen of the Tetons 👑

This has been a very sad week for us, as we found out that the matriarch, the 28 year old icon of The Grand Tetons, grizzly bear 399 was struck and killed by a car Tuesday in Wyoming. She had her yearling cub that is called Spirit with her. Her cub is missing at the time, but thought and hoped to be ok. We loved 399 so much. Our whole family did. Boyd and Bree and Brook and Abby all have stories to tell of our time and experiences with her.

Why do I love bears so much? Why do love the grizzlies so much? People who know me know I adore the bears. This was hard. Really really hard to hear. She was my favorite bear.
Maybe my love is spurred by the wildness, the strength of the grizzlies. The fact they are individuals with their own personality and characteristics just like horses, and dogs. People have hated them and tried to wipe them out. Maybe my love is because of their incredible tenacity and will to live when they were almost extinct. They can be dangerous but also fiercely loyal.
Maybe my great love for them is spurred by my family history. By my great grandparents who braved being being a pioneer and headed west to Montana to homestead and. My grandmother came in a covered wagon herding horses into Montana. When bears were all over. They homesteaded land on the Gallatin in what is now Four Corners, north of Big Sky. They would tell me stories of the bears. Granddaddy hand built a house on the river and delivered my mom in that house. He farmed and owned the first privately owned school bus and picked up kids in what is now the Big Sky area. In the summers he took tourists into the park in his school bus and showed them Yellowstone. When I was little they took me into Yellowstone all the time. And bears would jump up on our car. I have photos somewhere of this! I grew up admiring those bears. They were an integral part of the history of Montana and Bozeman. And it’s in my family. It’s in my blood. The bears and horses and Montana and family and good people. And brave people who paved a lifestyle in a rugged wilderness.

We knew of and followed 399 before Covid, but it was during the Covid shutdown that we really fell in love with her. The Covid shut down was a very uncertain lonely time for many, us included, and during the Covid shut down we went to Wyoming and Montana quite a bit. we were there in the end of April at Pilgrim Creek area, when the Queen, 399 came out from her den with 4 cubs in tow. What a sight! Abby was 7 and already had her Rebel camera and her love for photography had started. We all got amazing photos and videos. Bree has many of these amazing photos in gift shops all over including west Yellowstone! We met the most wonderful people on the roadside watching this incredible Queen of a bear raise her cubs. We watched closely for the whole upbringing of these beautiful bears. We have so many wonderful experiences and made so many friends. Omg the hours I spent talking to Tyler Brassington the brilliant geologist and bear management man! Learning about bears amazing reproductive ways of delayed implantation. WOW what a fascinating species. Here we do the incredible embryo transfers on our horses, but bears have their own embryo management built within them. After the bear is bred in the spring the development of the embryo is stopped. The embryo remains dormant until the female bear has gained enough weight and body fat reserves. If she doesn't, her body will reabsorb the embryo to ensure she's in the best condition to have a successful pregnancy the following year. So every little embryo of a bear cub has to be paused and pass the test so to speak to be a pregnancy. We freeze our horse embryos but the grizzly puts hers on hold, naturally! Oh I learned so many wonderful facts and amazing characteristics of the grizzly bears. They were almost extinct in the lower 48 states! By 1975 they were almost entirely wiped out. They are recovering now in the grizzly recovery plan. Which is thought of to be one of the most successful recovery plans of any species that there are. But did you know that grizzly’s are one of the slowest to reproduce their species? In other words they are very slow to recover and reproduce their species. The cub survival rate on an average is 35 percent. Most grizzly’s have an average of 10 cubs in their lifetime. Many lose all their cubs. But 399, she was special. Whether she had a great mom herself, or her intelligence was higher than other bears, or she had great genetics, or all the above, she was amazing. She had many cubs. And many have survived. And her daughters especially the great 610 is proving to be so prolific also!

We saw sights that no one had seen. 399 and her four cubs of the year were in a field next to her daughter 610 and her two yearlings. Soon they grazed and played and ended up right next to each other. Amazing. Other bears would have tried to kill each other. Not 399 or her daughter. Her loyalty was unmatched in most bears. In fact many years prior 610 had raised one of 399’s cubs for her. Someone else we met was the iconic photographer Thomas Mangleson. What an icon himself. He and Tiffany gave us great joy and friendship. I highly recommend you get his book about 399, The Grizzlies Of Pilgrim Creek and his new one Grizzly 399! They are amazing. So amazing!
They tell her story and more. So sad that now we tell her end. I kept thinking over and over what had happened. She had made it 28 years around the roads. Something went terribly wrong And then, I read the report. She was south of the park, on a windy road with a steep hillside on one side and a drop off to the river on the other. The reports were that the speed limit was fast and she probably had been stuck in that spot. A car came around the corner. And that was the end.

I truly believe 399 changed the world for Grizzlies. She was a bear that defied all odds. She was the greatest of the great in her species. She was the greatest Grizzly mother of them all. She defied all odds and had quadruplets at the age of 24. Then did what no Grizzly in recorded history in the lower 48 states has done, she kept them safe and healthy and well until their age of weaning at 2. Then at 27 years of age, ( also something never before known to happen) she came out of hibernation with another cub. The beautiful cub that people call Spirit.

399 was a roadside bear, meaning that she lived in the Tetons by the roadside. Good mother and smart bear that she was, she did this to keep her cubs safe. As the boars which often kill the cubs usually don’t come by the road. They stay in the backcountry. Her lifetime of being one of the most prolific bears was helped by her habit of staying close to people. She was smart tho. So smart. I would watch her stop in the road, look both ways and wait until the road was clear to cross.

She had a habit of leaving the park this time of the year as this is a critical time for grizzlys. In the fall they engage in a period of hyperphagia, meaning that they try to eat a huge amount of food to put enough body fat on them as hybernatiom is quickly coming. As the fall food sources change in The Tetons, she has learned to leave the park in search of food. Sadly she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and lost her life.

I honor the life and legacy of this great Bear. Grizzly bear 399. I loved her so much truly she changed my life. And many peoples life.

Thank you to all the amazing friends we have made. Thank you for the time, the knowledge, the memories.

Barry Ladd, Heidi Pinkerton, Ashley Hacket , Daryl Hunter, Rick Paltrow, Rick Larsen , Mimi Lopez, Jason Holzworth and many more!

Thank you for being part of the fun times and fun memories.

📸 Taken by: Bree Hokana Photography | Bree Hokana

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Getting the girls ready for the AQHA World Show! We are geared up and excited. The horses are feeling and riding GREAT! ...
10/24/2024

Getting the girls ready for the AQHA World Show!
We are geared up and excited.
The horses are feeling and riding GREAT!

Won’t be long before we head off to Oklahoma City

⬇️ Watch for them…..

Pleasure With Class + Bree Hokana
🔹 L1 Am Western Pleasure Champion of Champions
🔹 L2 Am Western Pleasure
🔹 L3 Am Western Pleasure

Command Those Leggs + Bree Hokana
♦️ L1 Am Ranch Riding Champion of Champions

10/21/2024

This is Matthew's fourth or fifth ride (only because we have been gone so much). But this guy has NO go! He wants to go nowhere, kicks back and goes slow. He has so much lift and cadence and has a big, soft, lope.

We are so excited about him!!

ITJUSTCOMEZNATURAL aka "Matthew"
2021 Chestnut Stallion
Sire: Invested Dimension
Dam: Mystique Chip [ Producer of: Top 4 AQHA world show in Jr Trail! NSBA Earnings of $4,700 and Top 10 in Junior & Am Western Pleasure and multiple Futurity Champions] (Sired by: Zips Chocolate Chip x Out of: Hotroddin Rhonda by Radical Rodder)

We ended our week wonderful and we are geared up and ready to START a wonderful week 🙏🏼 We have some exciting announceme...
10/21/2024

We ended our week wonderful and we are geared up and ready to START a wonderful week 🙏🏼

We have some exciting announcements to come! 🗞️

As well as wonderful horses available and prospects we are keeping. 😉 We have the AQHA World Show that we are gearing up for.

Stay tuned for some exciting posts 🎉🎉

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💛 I LOVE this c**t. He is so good minded, very talented, wants to please and likes to work. He is very laid back, wants ...
10/17/2024

💛 I LOVE this c**t. He is so good minded, very talented, wants to please and likes to work. He is very laid back, wants to kick back and go slow. He has a super nice cadenced jog and a lofty pretty lope. 💛

IF ONLY WE COULD KEEP THEM ALL! Unfortunately we can't and someone will be extremely lucky to own this great c**t. 🫵🏻

He shows us show much talent and can easily go in a lot of different directions and doing a lot of events.

⭐️Gold Strikke aka "Striker"⭐️
2024 Palomino C**t
Dimensions Got Style x Customized N Krymsun (Out of: CUSTOMIZEDANDNVESTED • has produced an APHA Reserve World Champion in Western Pleasure, AQHA Congress Masters two-year-old Western Pleasure Top 10, AQHA Regional Top Ten awards, International high point winner and multiple AQHA point earners and NSBA money earners. l By: One Hot Krymsun)

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