Skyridge Ranch

07/02/2024

Paula getting to know her handsome new gelding Gunna Go To Town. It's been a while since Paula has shown a reiner, but these two are already having alot of fun!!

06/23/2024

🐴😂🤣

06/10/2024

𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜, 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐈𝐃
"𝑵𝑶 𝑭𝑳𝑼𝑭𝑭, 𝑱𝑼𝑺𝑻 𝑺𝑻𝑼𝑭𝑭"
Jun 22, 2024

⭐️⭐ This advancing beginner/intermediate riding clinic with NRHA Professional and Idaho Horse Expo featured-trainer Dana DeVice will cover a number of essential topics to help you put the fundamentals on your horse for any western riding discipline. And have a lot of fun doing it!

⭐️⭐ Clinic is $85 per rider. Payment is required in advance to reserve a spot. Limited to 10 riders, and starts at 8am. FB message us for more info. Only a few spots left!

06/07/2024

Karaly did a great job today showing her horse "Lets See Ya Dance" ! These two get better every time they show!

06/06/2024

Nice run for Claire and Banana Pancakes in the Rookie class today at the TKO reining show!

05/30/2024

Some great pics from Saturday's Beginning Reining clinic! Thanks to everyone who came out!

05/22/2024

💥 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗸𝗲!! 💥

🍌🥞"Banana Pancakes", owned by Claire Wiltse, dragging his butt like a wormy dog. Such a nice horse!

05/21/2024

𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜, 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐈𝐃
"𝑵𝑶 𝑭𝑳𝑼𝑭𝑭, 𝑱𝑼𝑺𝑻 𝑺𝑻𝑼𝑭𝑭"
Jun 22, 2024

⭐️⭐ This advancing beginner/intermediate riding clinic with NRHA Professional and Idaho Horse Expo featured-trainer Dana DeVice will cover a number of essential topics to help you put the fundamentals on your horse for any western riding discipline. And have a lot of fun doing it!

⭐️⭐ Clinic is $85 per rider. Payment is required in advance to reserve a spot. Limited to 10 riders, and starts at 8am. FB message us for more info.

⭐️⭐ Topics:
Effective use of hands, legs, and seat
Tack and equipment
Softness and getting your horse lighter
Guiding and neck reining
Lifting vs moving shoulders
Isolating the hips and turning on the forehand
Two-tracking
Upward and downward transitions
Leads and lope departures
Better backing
Balanced stops
Rollbacks

05/16/2024

Prepping, fertilizing and seeding 2 horse pastures this week with a nice grass mixture. Now to get water on it...

05/13/2024

💥𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒘-𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝑮𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈💥

⭐️2019 Sorrel Gelding by Gunners Tinseltown x the great Meradas Shining
⭐️LTE: $3300
⭐️Very kind and quiet. Honest in the show pen.
⭐️100% sound, no vices.
⭐️15.1hh

Gunther is a solid citizen and a very easy horse to get along with. This beautiful gelding is uncomplicated, and has fast spins, fancy circles, big stops and easy lead changes. He will only go as fast as you want, and slows down reliably from a large fast circle. Gunther has impeccible ground manners and is just a joy to be around! With his golden mind, he is suitable for many different levels of riders.

🥈He just marked a 72 1/2 at the Best Little Derby in the West last week, and finished 2nd out of a large class of 37.

👉You can see and try Gunther out in Wilder, Idaho (25 mins west of Nampa)

55,🥕🥕🥕

04/29/2024

Thanks to everyone who came out this weekend for the Foundation Training clinic. Lots of great riding and beautiful horses on a fabulous April day!

04/27/2024

They are starting to filter in for the clinic today. Should be a great day!

04/24/2024

We love this time of year at the ranch!

04/14/2024

Have you heard of "𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙋𝙊𝙒𝙀𝙍 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝘼𝙉𝘾𝘼𝙆𝙀"?!?
💥💥🥞🥞🥞💥💥
It's a thing! 🤪🤪

🥳Big congratulations goes out to Claire Wiltse and her trusty steed "Banana Pancakes" for their NRHA Green Reiner class win at the SRRA show yesterday. This is Claire's first NRHA plaque, and we are thrilled for her! 🏆

04/14/2024

You never know how a horse is going to perform the first time in the show pen -- you hope that all the hours of training and care will come to fruition in front of a judge.

Well, it was a productive first-time out for our 5yr old gelding "Showin N Shinin" at the SRRA show yesterday, who won the NRHA Novice Horse Open L1 class with a nice, soft 71 run. There's so much more in the tank for this horse.

04/08/2024

‼️ 𝐖𝐎𝐖! 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞 ‼️

⭐️2019 Sorrel Gelding by Gunners Tinseltown x the great Meradas Shining

⭐️NRHA LTE: $3108
⭐️Very kind and quiet. Clips, ties, bathes, and hauls great.
⭐️100% sound, no injury history, no vices.
⭐️15 hh

🐴 Gunther is a solid citizen and a very easy horse to get along with. This beautiful gelding is an uncomplicated, push-type horse that has fast spins, fancy circles, big stops and easy lead changes. He will only go as fast as you want and is solid in his maneuvers. Gunther has impeccable ground manners and is just a joy to be around! With his golden mind, he is suitable for many different levels of riders. Fifty K.

🎥 Video: https://youtu.be/zbsjtXwZ4Xg

✅ You can see and try Gunther in Wilder, Idaho (25 mins west of Nampa)

📞 For more info, call Dana at 208-369-3381.

03/31/2024

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03/28/2024

❤️ We love Gunther's cute little ears! ❤️

03/23/2024

⭐️⭐ 𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜, 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐈𝐃
𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟓, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒

⭐️⭐ Come spend a day with NRHA Professional Dana DeVice and learn the maneuvers in Reining. This clinic is designed for riders who have little or no experience with Reining.

⭐️⭐ Clinic is $85 per rider. Payment is required in advance to reserve a spot. Limited to 10 riders, and starts at 9am.

𝑭𝑩 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒖𝒑.

⭐️⭐ Learn and work on:
Guiding and neck reining
Circles
Speed transitions
Spins
Stops
Rollbacks
Effective use of hands, legs, and seat

03/10/2024

👍👍Great job goes out to Claire Wiltse showing her horse Banana Pancakes yesterday at the SRRA show! For only the second time showing reining, she ran 2 very nice patterns and placed in the money for both.

03/07/2024

𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜, 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐈𝐃
"𝑵𝑶 𝑭𝑳𝑼𝑭𝑭, 𝑱𝑼𝑺𝑻 𝑺𝑻𝑼𝑭𝑭"
April 27, 2024

⭐️⭐ This advancing beginner/intermediate riding clinic with NRHA Professional and Idaho Horse Expo featured-trainer Dana DeVice will cover a number of essential topics to help you put the fundamentals on your horse for any western riding discipline.

⭐️⭐ Clinic is $85 per rider. Payment is required in advance to reserve a spot. Limited to 10 riders, and starts at 9am. FB message us for more info, or text 208-369-3381.

⭐️⭐ Topics:
Effective use of hands, legs, and seat
Tack and equipment
Softness and getting your horse lighter
Guiding and neck reining
Lifting vs moving shoulders
Isolating the hips and turning on the forehand
Two-tracking
Upward and downward transitions
Leads and lope departures
Better backing
Balanced stops
Rollbacks

02/06/2024

01/11/2024

Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.

There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive.

The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.
There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.

Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.

Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.

If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort. When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.

You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.

You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile.

You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.

You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.

You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and crinkle their noses but you won’t care.

Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.

You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.

You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.

Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.

- unknown author

01/06/2024

We started putting heavy-duty interlocking mats in our barn aisleway today. There's always something to do or a new project at the ranch. 🙄

Someone needs to be careful squatting with his spurs on! 😆🤠

01/02/2024

🥳 Congratulations to Sherri Boardman and her mare Banjolena Jolie for finishing in the Top Ten of the 2023 NRHA World Standings in the Prime-time Non Pro division. Your exceptional character showed as you kept pushing towards your goal even when the path was daunting. You are a blessing to everyone who knows you, and we are so proud of you!

"Success is a journey, not a destination."