Bridle Bit Horsemanship

Bridle Bit Horsemanship Bridle Bit Horsemanship is a full-service equine facility. The Bridle Bit team is made up of Amy and Steve LeSatz. We are proud to be family owned and operated.

We are passionate about horses and helping the people that own them! The Bridle Bit team is made up of Amy, Steve, and Ben LeSatz. When you deal with us, you can be assured that we take the reputation of the family and the business into all we do. Our mission at Bridle Bit is to provide you with the tools necessary to delevop an amazing partnership with your horse. We are a full-service equine ope

ration with services that include horsemanship clinics, horsemanship lessons, and finding you your next equine partner. We also support you and your horse with high quality feed and tack. We strive to do all this with honor and integrity in an honest no-nonsense atmosphere. BRIDLE BIT HORSEMANSHIP IS A FULL-SERVICE EQUINE FACILITY!
- Clinics for riders of all skill levels. Our clinics include horsemanship, c**t starting, cow-working, ranch roping, problem solving and trail.
- Private & Group Lessons
- Horse training
- Bridle Bit stocks Double Diamond Halter Products (halters, lead ropes, mecates and lass ropes), Jeremiah Watt Products (bits and spurs) and Wild West Braiding Products (bosals, hangers, hair mecates and rawhide products) high-quality tack.
- We have been dealers for ADM Animal Nutrition feed products for over 20 years and stock many of their equine feeds.
- Facility consultation design & problem solving.
- ...and more! If it has to do with you and your horse, we can help!

Please visit and like our new FB page for our beef business! Bridle Bit Beef
01/20/2025

Please visit and like our new FB page for our beef business! Bridle Bit Beef

Host a Clinic!Thanks to everyone who has answered the call to host a clinic in 2025! We appreciate you!If you'd like to...
01/20/2025

Host a Clinic!

Thanks to everyone who has answered the call to host a clinic in 2025! We appreciate you!
If you'd like to join the ranks of our other marvelous clinic hosts,

Call or email with your ideas for your clinic at your place. We'd like to hear from you!
[email protected]
970-978-9724

ESPECIALLY LOOKING FOR INDOOR FACILITIES TO HOST OUR WINTER
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We took a trip to the Colorado Cowboy Gathering in Golden, CO on Friday and that inspired this.Songs Of My Soul Old cowb...
01/20/2025

We took a trip to the Colorado Cowboy Gathering in Golden, CO on Friday and that inspired this.

Songs Of My Soul

Old cowboy songs
Still sung to the stars
In time with the rhythm
Of beat-up guitars
Still sung to the stars
In rhythm with life
Coyotes accompany the cowboys of old
As I sing out the songs of my soul

The Sangres above me, San Louis below
Time passes by them
Onward we go
The mountains stare down
So ancient and wise
Blanketed in green
Blanketed in snow
Immune to time passing
Like the songs of my soul

My horse understands me
Knows what I feel
My saddle it carries me
Knows how I feel
Traveling with me through sunshine and rain
Steady old partners through glory and pain
We go together down paths smooth and old
We sing together the songs of my soul

Cabins of log
Faithful old dogs
Pines stretch to heaven
Aspens of gold
Notes from my fiddle
Rhythm from guitar
Preserved in my heart
And the songs of my soul

Catch up to the times
Or get left behind
But I am who I am
You know where I stand
I like where I’m planted
Roots running deep
The songs of my soul
Through time I will keep

By Steve LeSatz

Host a Clinic!We're starting to develop our 2025 clinic schedule.Great incentivesCall or email with your ideas for your ...
01/07/2025

Host a Clinic!

We're starting to develop our 2025 clinic schedule.
Great incentives
Call or email with your ideas for your clinic at your place. We'd like to hear from you!
[email protected]
970-978-9724

ESPECIALLY LOOKING FOR INDOOR FACILITIES TO HOST OUR WINTER SERIES

Saying Goodbye As we said goodbye to the old year and welcomed in the new year, we’ve also had to say goodbye to people ...
01/07/2025

Saying Goodbye

As we said goodbye to the old year and welcomed in the new year, we’ve also had to say goodbye to people that we really didn’t want to have to say goodbye to. It’s just a part of life that we meet and develop a relationship with people travelling the same route we are. Sometimes we stay on the same path for a long time and sometimes we only travel a short distance together. Whether it’s a long or short journey, people and the memories made with them, stay with us.

Chris Pacocha was a client who rode with us for several years on her horse Brie. They came from an east coast English background but, Chris was the kind of person who was just trying to do the very best for her horses. Her good friend, Cari, found her with her horse, unconscious, on the ground a couple of weeks ago. Apparently, she had suffered an aneurism. She spent several days in the hospital but never woke up and is now taking care of the horses in the Kings Stable in Heaven. We said goodbye to her on Friday at her funeral. We will miss her smile and her try.

Gracie Moreland interned with us in Wellington for four years. There’s just not a ton of young people like her. She just brightened the barn everyday she came to help us out. Gracie graduated from CSU in December and is now headed back home to Texas. She’s going to use her talents as a horsewoman to help clients at a barn she has ridden at since first beginning her horse journey. They’ll be lucky to have her, and we’ll be some of her biggest supporters! We had the chance to say goodbye yesterday at lunch in Fort Collins. We’ll miss riding with her on a regular basis.

While we have to say goodbye for now, it’s not forever. One of the wonderful things about our faith is that we believe that we’ll see other believers again. It’s what makes loss through death slightly more palatable. And, those that are moving on in their journey through life and staying in the horse world are likely to see each other again. The world of horses is diverse, many paths can be followed, but those of us who continue to ride and learn often cross paths many times in a career. It’s one of the really wonderful things about the industry.

So, while it’s sad and hard to say goodbye to truly wonderful people, it’s comforting to know that it’s not goodbye permanently. We have the faith and hope that we’ll see them again. A new year is a new opportunity to go out and find more of those wonderful people. Wonderful people that we can travel with on this horseman’s journey, even if it’s for a short time. Our lives will be richer from the experience.

Wishing all our friends a very very Merry Christmas! In just a few days we’ll celebrate Christmas. It’s a special time ...
12/24/2024

Wishing all our friends a very very Merry Christmas!

In just a few days we’ll celebrate Christmas. It’s a special time of the year hopefully spent with family and friends. We heard this Baxter Black poem that just seems to sum up the season in a way that only Baxter can and in a way that makes sense to us. Here it is:

It’s Christmas time, when we celebrate the birth of Christ. In the U.S., surveys show that more than 80% of us believe in God. That’s more people than have lawyers, drive foreign cars, believe DNA is absolute proof of a criminal act, own a home, have been divorced, or watch Oprah!
How can such a high percentage of a highly educated, well-read, technologically and scientifically knowledgeable people believe in an omnipotent being? Where inside of us is the biological process that allows faith to exist? Not just to exist but to flourish. How do you define the words soul, love, compassion, conscience, guilt or sorrow without going outside the parameters of scientific definition?
To choose to believe only what is scientifically provable is to assume, I guess, that all human behavior can be traced to the basic instincts of territoriality, reproduction of species, and survival. That a conscience is a highly refined sophisticated mechanism that somehow helps keep peace in the herd, ensures that each member gets her share of the kill, and that each dog in the pack gets a place in the pecking order.

If Earth is truly just a long series of accidental chemical bondings and adaptation to the environment, and God has no hand in it, then those animal rights folks who say a rat is a dog is a baby, are right. Human existence on earth would have no significance, no more than dinosaurs, rocks, oxygen, stars, wars, or renal dialysis. As Bertrand Russell, an atheist, once said, “Unless one assumes a God, any discussion of life’s purpose is meaningless.”
One of the dilemmas that deep thinkers have, is the need to explain the biological, physical, neural or meteorological mechanisms that allow something to happen. Miracles are hard for them to swallow. There must be some earthly explanation that the Dead Sea parted, Lazarus rose from the dead, and Jesus turned water to wine.


It is necessary for them to write off Jesus feeding the multitude. To conclude the Bible is more fiction than fact. That Christmas is just a benign commercial day off.
But for the vast majority of Americans, Christmas is the recognition of something bigger than ourselves. It also strengthens our beliefs and reminds us that Jesus was born to change the world and that He has. Our entire concept of God exists by faith. It’s not complicated. When I’m asked if I believe Christ was born of a virgin, I say, of course! If I can believe in something so all mighty, all-powerful and unbelievable as God, I can surely believe Jesus was His son.
Merry Christmas, and God bless you.

Decorating Like many of you, we’ve been decorating for Christmas. Well, let’s be honest, Amy and Ben have been decorati...
12/13/2024

Decorating

Like many of you, we’ve been decorating for Christmas. Well, let’s be honest, Amy and Ben have been decorating for Christmas. Steve’s not much for decorating. That’s a good thing! His idea of a pretty Christmas tree would make Charlie Brown’s tree look good! Anyway, everything is looking very Christmasy around here and we’re just praying that the wind doesn’t decorate another state with our stuff!

Making things look different for different seasons is a timeless tradition in our families. There’s something special for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Is that a Scandinavian, English or Germanic tradition or do all cultures do something similar?

How horse people dress and what their horses wear is kind of like decorating too. Much of the time the gear people wore and the tack their horses wore was about how to function in the environment they rode in. We’re not sure when functionality started to take a back seat to form. It’s pretty easy to tell an English style rider from a Western style of rider but how many of us can tell the difference between a Hunt Seat rider and a Dressage rider? Can we see the difference between a rider from Texas and one from Arizona? What about someone from Nevada versus someone from California? With the ease of travel, many of these traditional styles have mixed and blended making for good conversations with folks that are trying to keep the traditions of their ancestors more pure.

When we ran the tack store, we kept up on the latest decorations the industry developed. We knew about the latest headstalls, reins, bits, saddles, saddle pads, ropes, and the endless bits and bobs for us and our horses. We love a pretty new saddle carved in an intricate design. Or, a new silver bit with a beautifully engraved cheek piece and mouthpiece we’re sure our horse will love. As much as anything, we appreciate the time and craftsmanship it takes to produce such things!

Amy has been heard to say, “I may not know what I’m doing but I’m going to look good doing it!” How we dress and how we dress our horse isn’t very important to the horse. Good horsemanship transcends the lines humans create for the horse and each other. If our gear fits properly and is comfortable to the horse that’s what they feel. If our hands and legs and seat are working together to send a consistent, unified message they are happy. It’s less about the decoration and more about the feel.

We hope you’re beginning to feel the Christmas spirit!

11/28/2024

This Thanksgiving, we extend our heartfelt thanks for your trust, and partnership with Bridle Bit Horsemanship. Your confidence in us is the cornerstone of our success and we are deeply grateful for the opportunity to work alongside you and your horses to achieve your horsemanship goals.
May this holiday bring you joy, warmth and cherish moments with family and friends.
Wishing you and your loved ones a Thanksgiving filled with happiness and gratitude.
Thanks for trusting us to be by your side on this amazing journey,
Steve and Amy

Bridle Bit Beef is a ranch to table, no antibiotics fed, no hormones given, beef program. Our goal is to provide you a t...
11/18/2024

Bridle Bit Beef is a ranch to table, no antibiotics fed, no hormones given, beef program. Our goal is to provide you a tender, flavorful eating experience complete with the confidence of knowing exactly how the animals are handled and where your meat comes from. We're taking orders now for a GRAIN FINISHED February 2025 delivery date and a GRASS FINISHED July 2025 delivery date. If you've ever considered buying your beef from a local producer, consider us. We'd love to visit with you about what you need and how we may fit into those needs.

A Good Partner You may not believe this, and I know it’s never happened to you, but I overcommitted today. I underesti...
11/18/2024

A Good Partner

You may not believe this, and I know it’s never happened to you, but I overcommitted today. I underestimated the time it would take to get everything done. I didn’t count on having to doctor a couple of animals. And, the second, maybe third, thing of the morning took about an hour longer than I anticipated.

We had a brand inspection scheduled for 2:00 P.M. over at the pasture in Fort Laramie where our cows have spent the summer and fall. They gather easy so I figured if we were there by 1 o’clock we’d have enough time to get them to the corral by 2. I was right. But that was the only thing I was right about in my whole magnificent plan.

A good partner is important. They see where you are going wrong and fill in. They make things work when they shouldn’t. Thanks to Amy, when I got home an hour later than expected, the trailer was hooked up, the horses were groomed and ready to load, there was a lunch packed, AND she was still smiling. So, we got off to Fort Laramie on time, got the cows gathered in time, and got them loaded for home before dark. A good partner is essential! Thanks Amy!!!!!

When we were younger, we thought that you could make something really nice out of a horse that just wasn’t really nice. And even though Ray Hunt told us that we couldn’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, we didn’t understand. There is a lot of value in a horse that wants to be a good partner. They are willing, they try, and they have a lot of heart when the going gets tough.

When we were younger, we didn’t understand what it meant for us to be a good partner to the horses we were working with. We thought that we needed to get them to do stuff for us. They needed to get right for their owner. They needed to perform! As we learned more, we found that a lot of horses want to be good partners. They just need the time to understand us and find what we are offering.

As we are asking those around us to be good partners. As we are asking our horse to become a willing partner. Maybe the first step is to see how good a partner we can be and how that may change the outcome. Think about that pardner!

Come audit the Cow Working Clinic tomorrow in Wellington! Rider spots are filled but no limit on Auditors. 9:30-3:30, ...
10/19/2024

Come audit the Cow Working Clinic tomorrow in Wellington! Rider spots are filled but no limit on Auditors. 9:30-3:30, 1599 East County Rd 82, Wellington, CO.

Getting Ready We’re going to wean our calves next week. We’ve never done that at this place and with the cows and calve...
10/19/2024

Getting Ready

We’re going to wean our calves next week. We’ve never done that at this place and with the cows and calves about an hour away, we’re going to have to do it differently. So, we’ve got a different facility, and a different situation, how much different does it really need to be?

The calves will need a good corral to stay in, good clean hay, fresh water, and extra protein to stay healthy. We’ve been working on the corrals since we moved here but a little extra TLC is in order with the dry dusty conditions we are all experiencing. We’ll put down some clean straw to keep the dust down and give the calves a nice place to lay down. The corral we’ll use has a little lean-to shed in it, so we’ll clean it out again to make sure the calves have a dry place to lay if we do get some moisture. We have a good hay supply, and the calves are used to eating around a bale feeder so that’s all set. We’ve cleaned the water tank and will have it on a float system until freezing weather forces us to take hoses to the garage to keep them thawed. The cows and calves have been on a protein tub the last couple of months, so the calves know how to use it. We’ll just have to make sure we keep one in front of them. All of that is not much different than last year. The big difference is that the cows won’t be across the fence like they were last year but there’s nothing we can do about that given our situation.

When we’re going to have to put ourselves and our horses in situations that they are unfamiliar with, we think it’s important to look for similarities. What about this situation could be a little familiar? Can we use those pieces to build our confidence and comfort level?

The biggest thing that will be familiar is you, your horse, and the relationship and trust you’ve built. The facility can be different, the horses you’re riding with can be different, but the feel you have from and to your horse will be the same. We can’t train ourselves nor our horses to experience everything we’ll ever run across. We can train ourselves and our horses to rely on each other when the terrain gets sketchy and all we want to do is hide.

Getting ready for unfamiliar territory is as simple as spending time with your horse. Expose them to some of the things around your place that they aren’t crazy about and help them get better about looking to you to help them through. When we have a horse that’s looking to us for leadership and comfort, we’ll have a horse that’s ready to do new things!

Address

26 Sybille Creek Road
Wheatland, WY
82201

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
Friday 8am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm

Telephone

+19709789724

Website

http://bridlebit.wordpress.com/

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