Boquete Cabalgata Celebrates Independence from Spain

May Horse Club Roundup • Hacienda Don Ricardo

The Chiriqui Saddle Club Roundup for May was hosted by the Hacienda Don Ricardo in Chiriqui, Panama. 

Historia

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Nuestra ganadería se inicio en la cría PRE en el año 2,000 con la importación de algunos animales de las mejores ganaderías de Costa Rica, para uso y consumo de nuestra hacienda al servicio nuestro y de nuestros visitantes. Al tener con nosotros estos bellos y nobles animales nos entusiasmamos mucho con la idea de criarlos en una forma ordenada cumpliendo con todas las regulaciones de ANNCE para orgullo nuestro y satisfacción de nuestros posibles compradores.

Our start in livestock breeding PRE 2,000 year with importing some of the best animal herds in Costa Rica for the use and consumption of our goods and our service to our visitors. By having us these beautiful and noble animals enthused us a lot with the idea of raising them in an orderly manner in compliance with all regulations ANNCE for our pride and satisfaction of our potential buyers.

 Una vez decidido criar y promover el PRE y sus variantes en una forma ordenada, procedimos a tratar de mejorar significativamente el pie de cría a través ya de importación de padrotes y yeguas de España de las mejores ganaderías que tuvieran las características que más nos interesara promover. Además hemos decidido concentrar nuestra ganadería en Caballos capa negra y castaña aunque también contamos con algunos bellos exponentes de la capa Torda.
Hemos concentrado también nuestro esfuerzo en desarrollar animales que puedan suplir los variados gustos de los aficionados haciendo énfasis en la conformación, funcionalidad y exaltando los movimientos y la suspensión y extensión de estas bella e incomparable raza.

Todos nuestros ejemplares se mantienen en libertad hasta la edad de comenzar su entrenamiento. Al igual durante su desarrollo son recogidos al amanecer y al atardecer para suministrarles sus piensos y suplementos vitamínicos para que su desarrollo sea lo más balanceado y así obtener un excelente ejemplar. Como pueden ver en las fotos, todos nuestros animales se manejan en manadas, juntos todas las razas incluyendo los ponies y solo se crean grupos por sexo y edad a fin de garantizar su pacifica coexistencia y exaltar su sociabilidad con el grupo. Esto produce animales muy sociables y además que no resisten el manejo y aceptan gustosamente sus manejadores, sin resistencia. Durante el periodo de crecimiento observamos cuidadosamente el desempeño y habilidades de cada animal para así poder saber para qué disciplina será más adecuada y así recomendar su uso o destino en el futuro. Nada nos gusta más que mostrar nuestros ejemplares que son nuestra mayor tarjetas de presentación y a la vez nos brindan la oportunidad de aumentar nuestras amistades y crear relaciones que nos unirán de por vida ya no por un interés económico sino por una pasión que nos aglutina y hace crecer como seres humanos que se respetan, se admiran y sobretodo que se unen en fraternidad y propósito común a través del Caballo y nuestros valores humanos.

Having decided to raise and promote the PRE and its variants in an orderly manner , we proceeded to try to significantly improve the breeding herd through and import stallions and mares of Spain from top herds had the features that most interested us promote . Also we have decided to concentrate our livestock and horses black chestnut coat but we also have some beautiful examples of Torda layer.We have also focused our efforts on developing animals that can meet the varied tastes of fans with emphasis on the formation , function and exalting movements and suspension and extension of these beautiful and unique breed.All our horses are kept free until age begin training . Like during development are picked at dawn and dusk to supply their feed and vitamin supplements to their development is as balanced and get an excellent copy . As you can see from the photos , all our animals are handled in herds together all races including ponies and are created only by sex and age groups to ensure their peaceful coexistence and exalt their sociability with the group. This produces very social animals who do not resist and also managing their handlers and willingly accepted without resistance. During the growth period carefully observe the performance and abilities of each animal in order to know what discipline will be most suitable and thus recommend its use or purpose in the future. Nothing we like to show our horses are our greatest cards and we also provide the opportunity to increase our friendships and build relationships that bind us for life not by an economic interest but a passion that unites us and makes grow as human beings who respect , admire and above that join in brotherhood and common purpose through the Horse and our human values ​​.

Panama Horses Getting Ready for Boquete Cabalgata

March Horse Club Roundup

 

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Horse Club Roundup • January

What:  January Round Up

When: Tuesday, January 28th, High Noon

Where: Rio Encantado, Caldera

             http://www.vrbo.com/255937 

Directions:  Turn onto the Caldera road.  If you are driving south toward David, it is the road to the left before the pedestrian bridge before Los Molinos.  If you are traveling North to Boquete, you will pass Los Molinos on the left and then pass under the pedestrian bridge, then turn right onto the first road.

Continue on the Caldera road  about 8 km. You will cross a bridge and  as you come around the curve on the right you will see the Rio Encantadoentrance. There is a sign out front that reads, "cabins for rent".  I will put red balloons out front, hopefully the wind won't take them.  There is limited parking.  Carpooling is encouraged.  Proceed through the gate and follow the road below.  You will see the pool and picnic facilities.

Cost:   8$ per person.  This covers reserving the facility and a grilled hamburger with all the trimmings.  There will be beer, wine, soda and water available for purchase. BYOB and BYO side dish/dessert is also an option.

IPORTANT  RSVP  There isn't a restaurant Rio Encantado, the owner, Frank, is doing this special for us.  He will purchase food for the number of RSVP's I submit.

Please email me at:  

belinda.mcada@gmail.com to RSVP

Agenda: Phil Lawson will be be our guest speaker and his topic will be "First Aid" .

Also, if you have horse equipment  you would like to sell, or trade bring  it  labeled with your name  and a price.  This will make it easy for negotiations.

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Belinda

McAda

6566-6458

Chiriqui Saddle Club Invites You to Our Monthly Roundup

Volcan Panama Horsemanship Clinic

Sunday, June 9th, BearPaw Performance Horses, hosted by La Pomme and Chemy.

Mike with Cowboy.

Mary Ann with her new Quarter Horse "Shining".

We had a little excitement when a newly cut stallion decided this just wasn't how he wanted to spend his Sunday.

Mike getting the big guy under control.

Instructor: Mike Shipley grew up in the Midwest, but moved to Washington state in 1985, where he lived and worked until retiring and moving to Panama in October of 2011. He brought with him to Panama two of his favorite horses and his two cow dogs. His whole adult life has been devoted to breeding, raising, training and showing horses in a variety of Western classes and activities at Open, AQHA, ApHA (Appaloosa) and APHA (Paint) shows and events as well as regional club cuttings and cattle sortings. One of his horses, on which he will be demonstrating, is Lenas Smoken Dry (a.k.a. “Cowboy”),a breeding Paint stallion from strong working quarter horse lines, who has been trained and shown in roping, cutting, working cow horse and cattle sorting events. Cowboy was the Oregon Paint Horse Association Reserve High Point Senior Horse in 2007 with a limited amount of showing. Mike’s approach to training horses has evolved over the years and is intent on building a foundation in each horse through clear and consistent communication and control that builds the horse’s confidence and ability one step at a time. He believes that every rider and horse, no matter what their discipline (Western or English, Rodeo or Trail riding), can benefit from learning to gain their horse’s confidence and respect from ground work exercises that flow into the training that is done in the saddle. His goal is to build a rider’s confidence by teaching them how to lay the foundation in training their horse in a way that establishes effective and consistent communication between horse and rider which produces a horse that, when finished, is safe, willing, confident and light to handle and produces a confident rider who has control of the total horse and its movements, all the time, with a minimum of effort. (A thank you to Chemy and the folks at La Pomme for allowing the clinic to be held at their facility. It is greatly appreciated)
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