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.

It is with much sadness I pass on to all of you of the loss of a dear friend and former student Erin Bezac ( nee Moynihan)

I met Erin many years ago when she had decided to run for stampede queen. She came for lessons, we attended her dinners, speeches and were present when she was crowned. She made us all proud and represented the stampede to the fullest. She followed her dream of riding cutting horses and won numerous buckles and awards. She then met Stafford the love of her life and together they raised two lovely sons Blade and Cooper.

Over the years we have shared many good times. During the last few years both busy in our own lives we didn’t see each other as often but never were we far from each other’s thoughts. My last visit was in October of the 2011 futurity where you would always find Erin timing and when this photo was taken.

Erin, I will forever love you and miss you. May you be amongst great people and horses in the heavens above

The ACHA fund raiser although lower in numbers was a great show for the cutters at Prairie Oak Ranch.

Margaret Dawson on her new gelding Cavello Cat had some great runs but in the end the cows won, but  eventually she got in sync with her gelding and pulled off a 72 to give her second place in the 15  amateur. She is pumped now and ready to head to Olds to the Canadian Finals.

Dave Cuming captured  his first Never Won a Buckle so he has a buy in to the ride off in the fall at the Cow Horse Supreme.

Cindy Remington was the 2000 Limit Aggregate Champion on her good gelding Gypsy Red Light

Maureen McCarthy picked up a third place in the 2k on Saturday on her gelding Nik

Thank you Gerry, Brad, Lorne and Dustin who stayed along with myself to the end to help the cutters.

Good luck to all at the Canadian Finals.