Welcome to the extended version of the ever popular Horseman's Corner Radio Program! Join us for longer, full interviews with the same folks you heard on the radio during the shorter version. The advantage is that there will be information on here that never made it on-the-air, so tune in and stick with us for each new episode!
Hello and welcome to the extended version of the Horseman's Corner podcast. I'm your host Brian Hale and today we have New Mexico horsewoman Tray Pelster. Let's get right into that interview.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your area if you don't mind. I live on a ranch. My husband and I just moved here not very long ago.
It's been about 10 months ago so almost a year. There's about I want to say like 500 head of cows. Red Angus is what he runs.
We live in the mesas down here on the Colorado New Mexico border. We're in the middle of nowhere. Where we live is down on the dry Cimarron River and there's a lot of natural springs down in here.
It's very beautiful in the spring and summer. We could definitely use some rain just like everybody else I feel like right now. We have a lot of natural water down here on this dry Cimarron River where we're at specifically.
If you go more towards like Branson it's pretty dry over there. It's flat and dry and then you start getting back into the mesas again. For the most part it's pretty rough country.
Where we live in specific it's like we live in the middle of mesas. Basically down on the meadows of the mesas. My husband's boss has a lot of land around and we split the mesas actually into different pastures.
Some of the cattle like your first and second calf heifers will stay kind of on the shelf of these mesas. They live kind of on an up and down situation. They just mountain goat these mesas.
Most of the old cows in the summer will go on top of the mesa and that's like flat and then a little bit of terrain here and there. For the most part it's pretty flat. Then in the winter time they come down to our house and that's on the bottom of the mesa.
It's really pretty and it's pretty rough but it's just a really cool country to get the cowboy in because it's something we haven't been in yet. We've probably moved eight times since my husband and I've been together just experiencing different ranches and different things. Pretty much all of our first calf heifers we calved out this year have had zero calving issues.
We just kind of let them out in a pasture kind of by the house. We could still go check on them but they're not in a pen. We just kind of let them calve out on their own.
It's a wonderful experience because we have been to a lot of places where they like pin up their heifers and watch them day and night. It's a lot to take care of just one couple on top of carrying all of the cows. You have to almost hire somebody else to help you.
It's a lot. So are you done with calving? Not quite. We're almost.
We have all of the cows down here. That's about 500 head. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it's about 500 head.
My husband will go work with his boss up in Branson and that's about an hour and a half from our house. So on the days that he has to be up there helping his boss I will kind of take over and like if I have to feed I'll feed with the kids and then like go look for strays. Sometimes he'll be over in one pasture and then I'll go and take the kids and we'll go into a different pasture and we'll just kind of team up and work together that way.
Pretty typical ranch wife, ranch husband situation. So I'll help him whenever he needs it and then if we can find somebody to watch the kids and we need like to doctor stuff I'll go out and help him doctor cows or calves and or remove cows and calves or what have you. So but mostly I will start or ride some of our horses because we kind of try to keep horses under us.
So we've just got two new babies right now. One of them's a coming two-year-old and one of them's a yearling. So I'll start them this spring hopefully and it'll kind of go from there.
Sounds like fun. Are you excited for that? I don't know. Coming off of a broken leg.
I've done this once before so I broke my left leg in a horse wreck four years ago when I was actually pregnant with my first child. And so that after the fact like after breaking your leg it's
25 Apr 2026
Steve Sward with the Late Howard Hale
Welcome to another classic interview from the sound vault of the late Howard Hale.
This 2021 interview was with Steve Sward, a North Platte horseman that once trained at Howard's arena in Minatare, Nebraska, before moving to the sandhills near the tiny town of Ringold.
This is a key interview because of the number of great questions Howard asked during this episode. Sometimes the horsemen and women can just talk for the whole hour without any prompting, and other interviews take a course like this one.
Enjoy this rapid fire full interview packed with great horsemanship advice from two veterans.
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Bob Moorhouse on The Horseman's Corner
Credited with being one of the founders of the highly popular Working Cowboy Ranch Association. LISTEN in for the full interview with Texas Hall of Fame Cowboby Bob Moorhouse by the late, great hall-of-fame broadcaster, Howard Hale.
11 May 2024
Tom Curtin on The Horseman's Corner
Trainer and clinician Tom Curtin of Wilson, Oklahoma hosts clinics and camps all over the country. His goal is to share his knowledge of horses, teaching what he’s learned from legendary horsemen, such as Ray Hunt and Buster Welch. His years of experience working on notable ranches, including the Four Sixes, King Ranch, Johnson Ranch and the 7D Ranch, have given him expertise in cow work, colt starting, horsemanship and ranch work.
https://tomcurtinhorsemanship.com
LISTEN IN to hear directly from Tom with the late Howard Hale.
19 Apr 2024
Bruce Sandifer on The Horseman's Corner
Listen in to this classic Howard Hale extended interview with Californio Style Horse Trainer Bruce Sandifer on The Horseman's Corner!
27 Mar 2024
Mesa Radue on The Horseman's Corner
By Nelseena Lehmann / Horseman’s Corner
I went to high school with her mom. I have watched her grow up and have her successes and I even got to make her a rope can. I haven’t been a personal friend, but I have watched her for a long time.
The impressive part of Mesa is her work ethic and dedication in a such a young lady. She has had great successes and many wins, but those haven’t been handed out like participation trophies. Rodeo and horse events are still very much like toothpaste. You are not going to get more out than you put into it and probably a little less.
Mesa and her successes came to mind on the heels of the Rocker Steiner at the NFR. Yes he is crazy talented but he has a skewed vision of what is appropriate, acceptable and has forgotten that there are younger littles looking up to him and he is not leaving a very good impression for them to follow. I am hoping it is merely a folly of youth.
It’s not an economic issue, it’s not a passion issue, it’s not really much other than a values issue. Mesa and her family have great values, and work ethic and are just good human beings. Which has let her successes shine through.
6 Mar 2024
Sam Shoultz on The Horseman's Corner (2021)
Sam Shoultz led a quarter horse breeding program that spawned several others carrying on the bloodlines that they focused on...
LISTEN IN to this archived classic from 2021 with the late Howard Hale and Colorado Horseman, Sam Shoultz!
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2 Mar 2024
Sharon Camarillo on The Horseman's Corner
Welcome to another extended version of the Horseman's Corner.This one is a true classic from the archives.Sharon Camarillo is a world-class barrel racer and trainer.This was an interview that Howard did with her several years ago.Howard Hale with Sharon Camarillo.Let's listen in.
I'm Howard Hale and thanks for joining me for today's edition of the Horseman's CornerOnly One Guest Today and let's get right into it.
Our guest on the program today is California Horsewoman and clinician Sharon CamarilloSharon, good to talk to you.
How are you today?
Howard, it's always an honor to be with you.
How many years have you been doing this show?
No, this program, I don't know about 25 years.
You lose track of time when you're having fun.
Well, that's amazing.
I mean, you're such a multifaceted host in the fact that you're a farmer.
Am I right?
You're a horseman in your own right.
That's correct.
My word, I don't know how you put it all together.
Maybe I don't have it together, but anyway, whether I have it together or not, we're doingthis interview.
JOIN us for this edition of The Horseman's Corner!
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27 Feb 2024
Tom Moates on The Horseman's Corner (1)
Hello, it's time for another extended version of the Horseman's Corner.Today it's an archived interview with the late Howard Hale and equine author Tom Moates.You're going to enjoy this one. Let's listen in.
Good morning. Thanks for joining me for today's edition of the Horseman's Corner.I'm Howard Hale, host of the program.Guest on this segment of the show is equine author Tom Moates.Let's get started with Tom.
Tom, what got you interested in horses in the first place?Thanks for having me on the show, Howard.I tell you, I got started late in life with horses out of my mid-thirtiesand I had been married to my wife Carol for over a decade.She had had horses earlier in her life and it was really something we hadn't discussed much.Then one summer she saw this horse in a newspaper for sale and just out of the blue,we went and looked at this horse and that horse came home.The horse's name is Neegee and that story has sort of spurred on a series of books that I've done...
Listen in to get the rest of the story!
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21 Feb 2024
Mindy Bower on The Horseman's Corner
Join us for this extended version of The Horseman's Corner with Brian Hale as we listen in to this archived interview with Colorado Horsewoman Mindy Bower by the late Howard Hale. Today his son Brian continues the program. Let's find out more about Mindy!
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Southeast of Denver, out on the high prairie we sit at 5800 feet. The land is short grass prairie complemented with a very productive creek bottom. First and foremost, we are concerned about taking care of the our most precious resource which is the grass. We raise grass fed beef and lamb. Our cattle are a composite and the sheep are purebred dorper.
Each year we host a Buck Brannaman at the fairgounds in Kiowa. This clinic is suitable for all levels of riders and cover horsemanship and roping with an emphasis on the skills needed to make a bridle horse.
3 Feb 2024
Dr. Steve Peters on The Horseman's Corner
Wouldn't you like to know what your horse is thinking?
Now you can!
Pick up Dr. Steve Peters book with Martin Black to learn more.
Meanwhile, here's almost a full hour of Dr. Peters with the late Hall of Fame Broadcaster, Howard Hale.
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2 Feb 2024
Toby Tooke on The Horseman's Corner
FULL INTERVIEW!It's Toby Tooke, great grandson of the legendary Ernest Tooke on The Horseman's Corner with Nelseena Lehmann.
30 Jan 2024
Buck Brannaman on The Horseman's Corner
Welcome to this special edition of the Horseman's Corner extended version. This episode is a classic with the late Howard Hale and Marty Marten, interviewing the world famous horse whisperer Buck Brannaman. Listen in to get a real perspective of who this mysterious horse tamer really is.
Info on Buck, the movie;
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1753549
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