Jared Taylor congratulates Howard Schmitt on his purchase of Zacks Peppy Baby, a weanling filly that Jared donated to the WRCF auction. He also donated Zacks Cowboy O Lena and offered to provide the purchasers 60 days of training when the colts are ready for the price of 30 days.
During the WRCF scholarship and crisis fund auction Saturday morning, there was a great reminder what it was all about. Crisis fund recipient Davey Cline, a cancer survivor, talked about what the WRCF’s assistance had meant to him. One other crisis fund recipient and a scholarship recipient also spoke.
Suzi Morton, one of the women of ranching to whom the rodeo is dedicated to, shows an item up for bid.
Jared Taylor and Wendell Barrett talk over plans for Zacks Cowboy O Lena, whom Wendell purchased at the WRCF auction Saturday morning.
No, the cute kid didn’t come with the wee-sized chinks that were auctioned off Saturday morning.
Pokey the Clown is a fixture at the WCRR. On Saturday, he hosted his world championship junior ranch rodeo.
You’re never too young to learn proper hat etiquette, as this youngster in Pokey’s junior ranch rodeo already knows.
At the world championship junior ranch rodeo, events included pony express, cow doctoring, cow milking and calf branding.
A crowd favorite is the super pee wee division, for tots ages 3, 4 and 5.
Artist Lisa Norman works on clay figurines at her Images West Studio booth in the Ranch Expo. She was also selling her photography book, “Haythorn Land & Cattle Co.: A Horseman’s Heritage.”
Mary Kay Tallant and Tammy Meek offer up a sample of their Gottobe Babes Barbeque Sauce in the WCRR’s “Go Texan” area. The Go Texan program, launched by the Texas Department of Agriculture in 1999, promotes the products, culture and communities of Texas.
Kevva Anderson of Gail, Texas’s, Adobe Arts, works on a painted leather belt in the Go Texan area, which also housed an Air Force booth and ones for several Texas colleges.
The American Quarter Horse Association presented its AQHA-Bayer Best Remuda Award during the WCRR. This award honors top breeders of ranch horses, and the 2009 winner is the Haythorn Ranch Co. of Maxwell, Neb. From left are T.J. Haynes with Bayer Animal Health, Harry Haythorn, Londa Haythorn, Mary Haythorn, Walker Ruh (in front), Howard Haythorn, Ahna Ruh, Darrell Ruh, Margaret Ruh and AQHA executive committee member Peter J. Cofrancesco.
Don’t mess with these boots!
Jeff Tucker of RFD-TV’s “All Around Performance Horse” gets some up-close footage in the bucking chutes.
The Budweiser Clydesdale hitch is always a crowd favorite.
The Tongue River Ranch team lays on a brand in the team branding event. They roped and branded their two calves in :47.79.
Team branding calls for two teams to go at once, roping calves out of a herd that includes momma cows, and then dragging them to a “fire,” where other team members flank the calf and brand it with an iron dipped in flour.
They said it couldn’t be done … Stoney Jones of Tongue River Ranch drew a bucking horse that had never been ridden for 8 seconds in a ranch rodeo setting. It was by the skin of his teeth, but Stoney rode him, scoring 82.
