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

CDW Retreat & Super Clinic – Memories

2021 CDW Retreat Jody Grimm and Dave Ellis’s LS Ranch 31315 Hot Springs Road, Porterville, CA 93257 2020 CDW Retreat Jody Grimm and Dave Ellis’s LS Ranch 31315 Hot Springs Road, Porterville, CA 93257

Cowboy Dressage Virtual Finals – Award Winners & Trifecta Winners

What a great Virtual year it has been!!  We all took a challenging situation and put our hearts into making Cowboy Dressage continue to flourish and even grow.  It has been fun to see the entire WORLD ride together. Your 2020 Virtual Finals tests, certificates and class results will be emailed to you soon. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2020 VIRTUAL FINALS … 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

CDW August 2020 Newsletter

Presenting Sponsors www.spalding-labs.com www.stormwalker.com CDW August 2020 News Letter BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN… Perhaps Gene Autry said it best when he sang, “Back in the saddle again. Out where a friend is a friend…” Our CDW Fall Gathering is a celebration of not just negotiating an unexpected and unprecedented 2020 but the sharing of horses and friends with an … Read More