February 13 Blog Wild Horse Wild Ride A few of the staff from Black Mountain Ranch will be seeing this film next weekend at the Boulder International Film Festival. Tickets are still available for purchase on their website for its screening at Boulder High School. Each summer, the federal government rounds up thousands of wild horses for relocation. A lucky 100 of them are given to 100 trainers, who have 100 days to ready the animals—which have never experienced human contact—to compete in the Extreme Mustang ...
February 10 Blog Featured Blog: The Wild Mustang Chronicles "What in Tarnation are the Wild Mustang Chronicles?" Debbie asks defiantly as quoted from her blog, The Wild Mustang Chronicles. She is an intuitive animal communicator and healer, and an avid horse lover, having four horses of her own. She knows horses well. Debbie writes, "Wild Mustangs! These words rustle up a whole posse of tantalizing images: herds of colorful horses running freely across the prairie; powerful stallions rearing and fighting for mares; cowboys and Indians; lassos, ...
February 9 Blog The Boardwalk of Atlantic City "On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, life will be peaches and cream.” - from the 1991 Disney film Wild Hearts Can't be Broken. Atlantic City is looking to revive the hustle and charm of its popularity in the 1880's. In efforts to gain tourism and lure visitors back to the Boardwalk, one act in the revival is horse diving. Steel Pier Ownership, announced in early February of this year, that it intends to bring back Atlantic City’s famed Diving Horse attraction, which began in the 1920s ...
February 7 Blog Alternatives to Snowmen at a Dude Ranch Ran across this picture on the Heather Jansch Facebook page. We featured her more traditional medium, driftwood, a few weeks back in our blog post "On Following Dreams". Since Colorado has been hit pretty heavy with snow this past week, we wanted to tribute her newest horse, sculpted from snow! Gives us something to work towards the next time we have a couple of feet up at the mountain, and would love to feature any more snow horses from our fans and guests! Send us a picture of yours ...
February 5 Blog Super Bowl Sunday- Bring on the Horses It's Super Bowl Sunday. The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), and it is the highest professional football in the United States...just for the few % that might not know. The day on which the Super Bowl is played is now considered a de facto American national holiday, and is the second-largest day for U.S. food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day. Crazy! So what does the Super Bowl XVLI have to do with horses? With the game having such an ...