Oliver’s story

This is Oliver. We call him “Oh”. He was a $500 feedlot/kill pen rescue that we got in December 2015.  He was the most impulsive decision I have ever made! He was beat up, skinny and his feet hadn’t been done in at least 6 months. His teeth had probably never been done and his breath was atrocious. We battled … Read More

Call on Kevin, Thoroughbred ex-racehorse

  My name is Sally Wilmot. I live in Queensland Australia and do Cowboy Dressage with Mandy Probyn (she taught me all I know 😊) I have a thoroughbred ex-racehorse named, Call on Kevin or Kevin around the stables. He is a very big boy who has been training in Cowboy Dressage for the last couple of years. We were … Read More

From Unwanted to CDW Virtual Reserve Amateur High Point

It was spring of 2011, I was working for an Arabian breeding farm in Spokane, Washington when this adorable, scrawny, just over 13-hand 3-year-old half-Arabian gelding who was unwanted by his breeders fell into my life. Ricky, registered as Najahs Last Stand, was meant to be a 90-day project, it was the only way my parents would agree to letting … Read More

Beth Shirley and Star!

After 10 years of not riding due to some life events out of my control, my brother and a dear friend pushed me to reignite my life long love affair with horses. I began a search on a very low budget for a horse that I cold train, and eventually maybe show again. Searching Craigslist one evening I came across … Read More

Rescue Horse to Cowboy Dressage

This is Oliver.  We call him “Oh”. He was a $500 feedlot/kill pen rescue that we got in December 2015.  He was the most impulsive decision I have ever made! He was beat up, skinny and his feet hadn’t been done in at least 6 months. His teeth had probably never been done and his breath was atrocious.   We battled … Read More

Thoroughbred ex-racehorse “Call on Kevin”

My name is Sally Wilmot. I live in Queensland Australia and do cowboy dressage with Mandy Probyn (she taught me all I know 😊) I have a thoroughbred ex-racehorse called, Call on Kevin or Kevin around the stables. He is a very big boy who has been training in cowboy dressage for the last couple of years. We were lucky … Read More

My beloved horse Mama (AKA Mama Rocks Me)

The story of my beloved horse Mama (AKA Mama Rocks Me). I purchased this horse in 2014 from the Fallon Nevada kill pen, sight unseen. In fact, I didn’t even select her. She was part of a herd of 26 mares from a bucking horse ranch that went out of business.  I was told they were all pregnant.  It tore … Read More

My First Cowboy Dressage Event, by Elise Lalor

I spent the last week at my first “Cowboy Dressage” event and wanted to take a moment to write about what the show experience was like. Ali Kermeen invited me to the show by asking me to set a show goal to “make Denny a better horse than before he left to the show”. It seemed like a stretch goal … Read More

Cowboy Dressage Clinician Barbara Wagner comes from Germany to Holland

At the first weekend of August the Cowboy Dressage ambassadors Anne-Marie Havelaar and Djoke Knol had planned to sponsor a clinic with Cowboy Dressage clinician Barbara Wagner. Because of the situation with Covid 19 the Cowboy Dressage clinic had to be cancelled. The restrictions eased up a bit though and more activities were possible again in Europe. So at the … Read More

Finally Finals!!!

What a busy year it has been!  I suppose they all are pretty busy, though, aren’t they? Here it is fall already and the Cowboy Dressage World Final Gathering is happening in a couple of weeks and I feel like I’ve barely got a start on my training for the year. There have been some very exciting things happening in … Read More