Redtail Ranch Horses

08/27/2026

🔥 WEST COAST RANCH HORSE SUMMER BUCKLE SERIES & VRH SHOW #2 🔥

What a weekend for our Redtail Ranch crew! I could not be more proud of how gritty this group was. Triple-digit heat, two long show days, while doing it all in full chaps to look their best — and horses that showed up for them giving it their all. 💪🔥

Every rider made HUGE improvements this weekend. Charlotte, Julie and I all stepped outside our comfort zones and into the VRH classes for the first time — and had SO much fun doing it! Kira also checked off a pretty big milestone with 3-year-old Ruffie’s first trip to town AND first horse show, and the two of them handled it like they’d been doing this all year. 🤠

🏆 CHARLOTTE COOPER & THIS WIMPYS DUN 👏🏻 TOP HAND CHAMPION 👏🏻 for the weekend competing across both VRH and WCRH classes!

• Youth Boxing — 🥉/🥉
• Open Ranch Reining — 🥈/🥈
• AQHA Youth Ranch Reining — 🥇/🥇
• WCRH Youth Ranch Reining — 🥈/🥈
• Non Pro Ranch Riding — 🥇/🥈
• Youth Ranch Riding — 🥇/🥇
• Youth Ranch Trail — 🥇/🥉
• Non Pro Ranch Trail — 4th/4th
• Youth Ranch Rail — 🥇/🥉
• Open Ranch Rail — 4th/4th
• Non Pro Ranch Rail — 🥇/🥇
• Non Pro Conformation — 🥇/🥈
• Youth Conformation — 🥈/🥈

⭐ JULIE OLVERA
LADI JACKSON
• Youth Boxing — 🥇/🥇
• Green Horse Ranch Cutting — 🥈/🥈
WALLAWALLAWHIZDOM
• Open VRH Ranch Trail — 🥈/🥉
• Open Ranch Riding — 🥈/4
• Open Ranch Trail — 🥈/🥈
• Open Ranch Rail — 🥉/🥉
• Youth Ranch Riding — 🥈/🥈
• Youth Ranch Trail — 🥈/🥉
• Youth Ranch Rail — 🥉/4th
• Youth Conformation — 🥇/4th

⭐ AMY DANESHMAND & DOCS CD ROYAL
Owned by the Elfelt Family
• Open Ranch Cutting — 🥇/🥇
• Green Horse Ranch Cutting — 🥇/🥇

⭐ MIA ARAMBULA & FLO CHECKS owned by Redtail Ranch Horses
Youth
• Ranch Riding — 🥉/4th
• Ranch Rail — 🥇/🥉
• Ranch Trail — 🥇/🥈
• Conformation — 🥇/🥉

⭐ KIRA STILES & LIL MAG RUFIN
🎉 First Show!
Green Horse Walk/Trot
• Ranch Rail — 5th/6th
• Ranch Riding — 7th/8th
• Ranch Trail — 7th/8th
Youth Walk/Trot
• Ranch Riding — 🥈/5th
• Ranch Trail — 5th/5th
• Open Ranch Rail Stakes — 8th/6th

⭐ ALEXIS KLINE & SHEESA DUN SANSATION owned by Redtail Ranch Horses
Amateur Limited
• Conformation — 🥉/🥉
• Ranch Trail — 🥈/🥇
• Ranch Rail — 🥉/🥇
• Ranch Riding — 4th/5th
Green Rider
• Conformation — 🥈/🥇
• Ranch Trail — 🥇/🥇
• Ranch Rail — 5th/🥈
• Ranch Riding — 🥈/🥉

⭐ MADDY STILES & UNZIPPED INVITATION
Youth Walk/Trot
• Ranch Riding — 🥉/4th
• Ranch Trail — 🥇/🥈
• Ranch Rail — 🥇/🥈

⭐ GRANT URBAN & CROME DE LIGHT owned by Redtail Ranch Horses
Green Rider
• Ranch Riding — 🥈/4th
• Ranch Rail — 🥉/4th
• Ranch Trail — 🥉/5th
• Conformation — 6th/6th
Youth Walk/Trot
• Ranch Riding — 🥈/🥉
• Ranch Rail — 🥉/🥉
• Ranch Trail — 4th/4th
• Conformation — 🥈/🥈

⭐ REID URBAN & AINT ONE LIKE ME
Green Rider
• Ranch Riding — 🥇/4th
• Ranch Rail — 🥇/🥉
• Ranch Trail — 🥉/4th
• Conformation — 🥈/🥉
Youth Walk/Trot
• Ranch Riding — 4th/5th
• Ranch Rail — 🥇/🥈
• Ranch Trail — 🥇/🥈
• Conformation — 🥇/🥇

⭐ AMY DANESHMAND & SHININ N GUNNIN
Owned by the Urban Family
Green Horse W/T
• Ranch Riding — 🥇/🥈
• Ranch Rail — 7th/7th
• Ranch Trail — 4th/5th
• Conformation — 🥇/🥇

Lots of bonus wins here that have nothing to do with ribbons — better rides, braver riders, young horses gaining confidence, trying new classes, and everyone pushing themselves just a little further than they did at the last show. ❤️

Very proud of this crew and grateful to West Coast Ranch Horse for continuing to bring these opportunities — especially VRH — to Southern California. We’re hoping there is a next one! 🤠

Thank you Brooke Louise Creative for the beautiful photos 📷 go buy some of your prints and help send everyone’s favorite show photographer to Spain 🇪🇸

08/26/2026

I’ve been trying to gather my thoughts on why losing Dolly Parton has made me so sad.

I never knew her. I never met her. And yet somehow, it feels like we lost someone we knew.

In the country music-loving horse community, Dolly feels like part of our culture. She was the GOAT of country music—the voice, the songs, the rhinestones, the humor, the unmistakable way she could tell a story. She represented a piece of the world so many of us love, and it’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that she’s no longer in it.

But what has moved me just as much is seeing how deeply her loss is being felt everywhere is that Dolly didn’t just belong to country music. She touched people from every walk of life, every generation and seemingly every corner of the world. At a time when it feels increasingly difficult to find anything we all agree on, somehow we agreed on Dolly.

We loved her.

Maybe it was because underneath all that incredible talent and larger-than-life sparkle, there seemed to be such genuine goodness. She never forgot where she came from. She could laugh at herself. She treated people with kindness. She gave enormously and often quietly. And she had this remarkable ability to stand firmly in who she was without making anyone else feel like there wasn’t room for them too.

There are celebrities we admire, and then there are people who somehow become woven into the fabric of our lives. Dolly was one of those people.

Today the country music world lost its Queen, but it feels like the rest of the world lost something too. A little bit of goodness. A little bit of sparkle. And one of those rare people who reminded us that you can be wildly successful, completely yourself, and still lead with kindness.

I think that’s why this one hurts so much.

There will never be another Dolly. 🤍 🦋

06/26/2026

06/02/2026

Happy Monday 🖤🐴

05/29/2026

West Coast Ranch Horse show #3 is in the books! Thank you to the Dawson Fam + Kev for all the work you put in giving us another fun and beautifully run show as well as Brooke Louise Creative for having a great stand in photographer 🫶🏻

Proud of these riders for continuing to progress and fine tune their communication 👏🏻
One last show to finish the series and then we’re off to Las Vegas with many of our WCRH friends 🎉

Charlotte Cooper & This Wimpys Dunit
1st Youth Ranch Riding
1st Youth Trail
2nd NP Rail
2nd Youth Rail
3rd NP Trail
3rd NP Ranch Riding
3rd NP Conformation
4th Youth Conformation

Julie Olvera & Ladi Jackson
1st Youth Rail
Reserve Champ Open Rail Stakes
2nd Youth Conformation
4th Youth Trail
5th Youth Ranch Riding

Mia Arambula & Flo Checks
3rd Youth Conformation
4th Youth Ranch Riding
5th Youth Rail
5th Youth Trail

Alexis Kline & Sheesa Dun Sansation
1st Green Rider Trail
2nd Green Rider Ranch Riding
4th Green Rider Conformation
6th Green Rider Rail

Reid Urban & Ain’t One Like Me
1st Youth w/t Ranch Riding
1st Green Rider Rail
1st Youth w/t Rail
3rd Green Rider Ranch Riding
4th Youth w/t Trail
4th Youth w/t Conformation
5th Green Rider Trail

Jordan Easterly & Mt Cup Yellow Badger
1st Short Stirrup Ranch Riding
1st Short Stirrup Trail
1st Short Stirrup Rail
1st Short Stirrup Conformation
1st Youth w/t Trail
3rd Green Rider Conformation
3rd Youth w/t Conformation
4th Green Rider Ranch Riding
5th Youth w/t Ranch Riding
5th Green Rider Rail
6th Green Rider Trail

Grant Urban & Crome de Lite
3rd Green Rider Trail
4th Youth w/t Ranch Riding
5th Youth w/t Trail
5th Green Rider Ranch Riding
5th Youth w/t Conformation