Dreamscape Horsemanship

Dreamscape Horsemanship Offering Horse Training and Showing Services and Leathercraft. Business run by Samantha Humphreys. Also home of DSH Tack Supplies and Leathercraft.
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Credentials and show record can be found on our website linked below. Located at Wolf Hollow Ranch
37242 RR21 Red Deer County Alberta (just north of Markerville AB, west of Red Deer). Credentials and show record can be found on our website along with full information about our facility, or send us a message! https://dreamscapehorseman.wixsite.com/homepage/about

Happy Belated Birthday to both Honey Bear, and Sq**rt! A couple of the other Wolf Hollow/DSH critters.
08/24/2025

Happy Belated Birthday to both Honey Bear, and Sq**rt! A couple of the other Wolf Hollow/DSH critters.

It was a crazy windy day earlier today, so after "wrangling" some horses for their sessions, I figured it was as good of...
08/22/2025

It was a crazy windy day earlier today, so after "wrangling" some horses for their sessions, I figured it was as good of a time as any to start addressing one HUGE project that has been on our list this year. It won't get finished in its entirety for a while, but its off to a great start. Shelterbelt clean up around the arena, and the main yards! Started off with getting this area around the outhouse tidied up, some toxic (to the horses) plants removed, and opened up some space for the Nanking Cherry saplings to grow more. A bonus, is that its not only much nicer to look at, but also adds a few new lines to our trails in the yard that make up our "fitness track" that will be great to use once we're done! We lost track at how many Nanking Cherry saplings line these new trails that are being cut, so there will be a literal cherry grove to ride through and pick cherries once those saplings mature! How sweet..... in more ways than one. What an incredible facility we are slowly building up, piece by piece! All those cherry blossoms in the spring are going to be gorgeous!
And a sneak peek.....you can see kinda an old trail in that mess in the second picture! It is now an open trail, I'll be sure to get a helmet cam video or pictures this weekend once I finish cleaning up that new trail!

08/21/2025

Squaw's turn. Oddly enough, she was more skeptical of having a halter on her head, and unfortunately, the flies were really bothering her ears yesterday, but we aren't quite ready for Swat or fly spray. It was bordline raining/stormy yesterday so apologizes for the super dark video. I didn't set up my GoPro in case it stormed, and I didn't quite expect to get a halter on them yesterday.

08/21/2025

Clyde's first time haltered! So thankful that we took the time to get him handled enough using just the lariat to make this session a relatively quiet one, and because of all that lariat work, they were already "halter broke", just needed the halter itself. Now that we can sort of get a halter on them, hopefully the rest of their training period can go a lot smoother. We will have a lot of work to do for general handling and touching, as well as foot handling, trailer loading and other groundwork exercises.

The casualties of war. 🤣And by that, I mean letting the mares graze the yard and forgetting to "lock up" my stuff becaus...
08/21/2025

The casualties of war. 🤣And by that, I mean letting the mares graze the yard and forgetting to "lock up" my stuff because well, a young mare named Twist (aka Twister) cannot mind her business for 5 seconds but isn't quite as handy with the sponge training stick. We see how well that went. There was a reason I went back to the bush on the property and got a literal stick to replace the other broken one...... now I guess I shall repeat that. It sure is a handy training tool when it isn't only 12inches long. Though I won't lie, having a "shortie" version worked pretty slick yesterday with Squaw and Clyde so I made a new longer version again, and left this one as a shortie. But don't tell Twist that she "reinvented" our sponge on a stick training tool, she is enough of a pest as it is!

Can't forget about Joey! Apart from hitting the "I don't want to be caught" wall, he has been progressing quite well thr...
08/20/2025

Can't forget about Joey! Apart from hitting the "I don't want to be caught" wall, he has been progressing quite well through more advanced groundwork as we work towards saddling, ground driving and more advanced obstacle work, and as we work towards seeing if he can be under saddle in the near future.

Today he worked on some sending exercises, the squeeze exercise (between me and the wall, with yielding the hip to a stop, and sending back through), picked up on sidepassing down the fence like he has been doing it forever, and played a bit with some girth pressure. Such good lad, which is good, he is a big boy!

Sometimes slow and steady is the best policy! They are a bit over their 30 day mark and we finally have halters on their...
08/20/2025

Sometimes slow and steady is the best policy! They are a bit over their 30 day mark and we finally have halters on their heads! Now, I know what you are thinking. What? It took you that long to do something with them? No.... I said we have halters on their heads. I didn't say they didn't do other stuff already. ;) This is Squaw (bay mare) and Clyde (grey pinto gelding). They have been here since mid July. Within a couple sessions, both of them learned to lead off the lariat on their neck, yield hindquarters, face up to me, draw up off the rope, and had even started on lunging off that lariat. Touching them however, was the "problem". We have spent a LOT of time working on touching their faces, neck, and shoulders to work up to being able to halter them, and although we did it in stages today, starting with it being on their neck, then quietly scooping up their nose and letting it "hang there", then actually doing it up to lead them around, it went quite well. It turns out, Squaw and Clyde are bucking stock bred, and bucking school drop outs. They didn't buck hard enough, or weren't quite right, who knows. BUT, that does explain a lot. They are bred for their big reactions, flighty tendencies, and the "I prefer to be feral" thoughts. How else do you get the BIG BUCKS of rodeo stock? On the plus side, they are SMART! Once they finally let me touch them, we are making some good progress. Now that I can get a halter on their heads even if it takes me a couple minutes, we should be able to make better progress now! I do have some poor quality phone video of me leading both that I will post later!

This counts right? 🤣 Halter is ON his head. It counts! A Clyde and Squaw update coming right up!
08/20/2025

This counts right? 🤣 Halter is ON his head. It counts! A Clyde and Squaw update coming right up!

A DSH Hip Holster (Hip bag/pouch) fresh off the work bench! Designed to hang the belt loops off your belt, with a thigh ...
08/20/2025

A DSH Hip Holster (Hip bag/pouch) fresh off the work bench! Designed to hang the belt loops off your belt, with a thigh strap (not pictured) to secure the bottom so it doesn't flop. This particular one is our size "Large", single pouch. We do have other sizes, and double pouch versions coming soon to our online store! This one will be live on the store shortly, link below!

This one features a gorgeous green border with yellow buckstitch, and some classic floral tooling, with the center left natural, but antiqued! Pouch size is about 5"Wx7"T and about 2" deep. Keep your phone, and other goodies on your person while our trail riding, or just as a unique "bag". Fantasy styles also available (by custom order at the moment). A few others are coming shortly with western tooling and designs.

https://dreamscape-horsemanship.square.site/

Windy and rainy days mean we are hard at work in the office/leather shop whipping up some design concepts for some upcom...
08/20/2025

Windy and rainy days mean we are hard at work in the office/leather shop whipping up some design concepts for some upcoming orders! I am pumped about this one and can't wait to start on it, pending design approval of course.

08/20/2025

You get no where if you don't take the time to help them relax and be confident in what you are doing.

08/19/2025

Taking a moment to brag about how absolutely AWESOME Rachel and Leo are together! A couple years ago (crazy how its already been about 2 years, time flies), a 4yr old Leo was here for a 60 day start, which due to a vet issue that was nobody's fault, got broken up into 2 segments, a winter apart. They rode him a bit at home afterwards, and now Rachel gets to put some more miles and refinement on to him! Leo is now 6 and has grown so much! Who says drafts can't do gymkana?
They were also Reserve Champions in the Walk/Trot Western Equitation under the Canadian judge! (In case anyone wonders, for the Canadian or Alberta Pinto shows, gymkana is allowed, even if you enter the Walk/Trot GREEN horse or Novice rider division whether in the Pinto catagory or the All Breed/Open).

Here is their go for Canadian Pinto "Thread The Needle" (Keyhole is what I'm used to it being called from my youth gymkana days), posted with permission of Rachel. With Rachel's guidance, Leo was the HIGH POINT Canadian Pinto Gymkana Horse and earned the first annual Randy Rockwell Memorial High Point Canadian Pinto Gymkana Horse, which is incredibly fitting in my mind, since Randy was Rachel's grandfather, and instrumental in the development of the Canadian Pinto Association, and a huge fan of pintos and gymkana! She has felt the bite of the "Drum Horse Bug" and wants to keep him. Can't say I blame her! Every horse we have had from Thunder Hill Equine over the years has been spectacular to work with, easy going, smart, trainable and just a pleasure to ride. And there is something to be said about their stride and the power you feel with those big legs, knee and hock action, even if they aren't speedy in pace, they are in their ground covering stride! I just LOVE seeing horses we have started, hitting the show pen in some form or another, it makes my heart very happy!

Address

37242 Range Road 21
Red Deer, AB
T4E2L9

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 8pm
Tuesday 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 8am - 8pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 8pm
Saturday 8am - 8pm
Sunday 8am - 8pm

Telephone

+1 403-415-5308

Website

https://dreamscape-horsemanship.square.site/

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