A1 Horse Programs - Owen Ranch - Helen Owen

A1 Horse Programs - Owen Ranch - Helen Owen Horseback Riding Lessons, Field Trips, Horse Boarding, Dog Boarding, Summer Camps, Training, Trail R Owned and operated by Middletown native, Helen Owen.
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A1 Horse Programs is located at the Owen Ranch in the beautiful hills of Middletown, California. The area offers a diversity of activities just moments away. Including, but not limited to: wine tasting, the Hidden Valley Lake Golf & Country Club, boating and fishing adventures at Clear Lake and a short scenic drive to the Napa Valley. We offer a variety of programs specifically formulated for a va

riety of experience levels for children, teens and adults. Join us for an outdoor day with the family or a romantic trail ride while watching the beautiful California sunset. It will be an experience you will never forget.

08/25/2026

📣 BIG NEWS! THE DOUG INGERSOLL MEMORIAL SPECTACULAR IS BACK! 📣

And this year, it’s BIGGER & BETTER THAN EVER!

🔥 OPEN SPECTACULAR
🔥 NON PRO BRIDLE SPECTACULAR
🔥 NON PRO BOXING SPECTACULAR

💰 ADDED MONEY
🏆 CHAMPION BUCKLES
🎁 AMAZING PRIZES

📅 MARK YOUR CALENDAR — OCTOBER 23, 2026!

You won’t want to miss this one!

Stay tuned — full details and entries are coming soon!

Doug Ingersoll Memorial NRCHA Spectaculars
Celebrating the legacy. Chasing the next championship.

08/24/2026

🐴 In 1898, riding the Peter Hanson range near Austin, Nevada, a young man named Peter Damele saw something with his father that neither of them could explain.

Three horses. All of them covered in tight ringlets — curls running down the neck, along the back, twisting through mane and tail like a lamb's fleece grown on a horse.

Damele never let go of that morning. He told the story for the rest of his life, right up until his death in 1981 at the age of ninety. Those three curly horses came off the open range and into the Damele family's herd, and that herd became the foundation of the breed known today as the American Bashkir Curly.

Here is the part that still stops me. Nobody has ever satisfactorily explained where those three horses came from. Not the Dameles, not the breeders who followed them, not a century of people asking the same question. The origin of the curls is still open.

A boy on a horse in the Nevada high country. An ordinary working morning. And a mystery that has outlived every person who witnessed it.

What would you have thought, meeting a curly horse for the first time on empty range?

08/01/2026

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18585 Guenoc Lane
Middletown, CA
95461

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 8pm
Tuesday 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 8am - 8pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 8pm
Saturday 9am - 8pm
Sunday 9am - 8pm

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