 Welcome to Prairie Oak Ranch, a total horsemanship training centre with a focus on cutting.
Situated near Okotoks, Alberta, Canada, the ranch facilities include an indoor heated arena and barn, outdoor square and round pens and plenty of open ranch land on which to ride and enjoy your horse. The ranch staff also accesses the amazing riding country in the Alberta foothills for day rides and overnight trips with students.
The instructional program at Prairie Oak Ranch offers beginner, intermediate and advanced riders of all ages the opportunity to advance their riding skills. The program is also geared to design individual programs for riders and horses to prepare them to be competitive in the cutting pen.
Owner/manager Cub Wright is the riding instructor at Prairie Oak, and the 2008 Canadian Open Cutting Champion, the first woman ever to hold the title. |
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"An Exercise to Practice Sitting Quietly in the Turn" |
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Friday, 04 November 2011 10:07 |
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Posted By Barbra Schulte On September 11, 2011 (9:50 pm) In Practice Techniques
 A big challenge when you learn to ride a cutting horse is sitting quietly in the turn.
We have a natural tendency to want to go with the cow immediately and move our bodies in different gyrations!
At the very time when we need to be the most quiet, intuitively we want to DO SOMETHING to contribute to the action.
But of course, what we need to do is exactly the opposite.
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"New Ways to Think About 'Off the Wall'!" |
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Friday, 04 November 2011 09:58 |
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Posted By Barbra Schulte On October 12, 2011 (1:40 am) In Practice Techniques
NO! I’m not talking about your whacky uncle. (This is about cutting horses!!!)
I’m sure you’ve noticed how uncomfortable it can seem when you move out of the middle third of the arena and travel across the pen toward the outer thirds of the arena.
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"How to Execute Transitions From One Part of a Cutting Run to the Next Part" |
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Friday, 04 November 2011 10:03 |
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Posted By Barbra Schulte On August 11, 2011 (9:05 pm) In Riding and Showing Elements
 It is soooo easy to come out of a cutting run and feel like you’ve just been to Mars and back. Sometimes it seems like you’re a speeding bullet on fast forward.
After a chaotic run, your internal conversation might go something like this, “I have no idea which cattle I cut? Hot quit? On which cow? Oh, yeah … did I really?”
You can start to feel grounded and in control during all parts of your run.The key is to break it down into segments.
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Last Updated on Friday, 04 November 2011 10:16 |
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Friday, 04 November 2011 09:51 |
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Cub just received great news from Australian Gavin White about his most recent accomplishments in Camp-drafting.
“Been to 2 Campdrafts in the last few weeks. Came 2nd in the maiden at one, last weekend won the open, open cut-out, maiden cut-out and came 3rd in the maiden, final-ling on 5 horses. So I had a pretty good time.
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Last Updated on Friday, 04 November 2011 09:54 |
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