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Dreamcatcher Stable

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Dreamcatcher Stable

Boarding/Training Facility We are a boarding/training facility located in southeast Iowa.

Our goal is to promote the Vaquero style of riding and training by hosting Horsemanship, Cow Working and Ranch Roping Clinics with the awesome clinician, Scott Stokes. We also will occasionally have a good, solid, well-trained horse for sale that will be able to ranch rope, work a cow or take you on a pleasant trail ride.

01/26/2026

We have our 2026 dates locked in for our Scott Stokes Clinic!

****SAVE THE DATES****
October 3, 4 & 5!!
That’s Saturday, Sunday & Monday as usual!

I’ll post more details as we get them!

10/09/2025

Day 3, Part 2, Monday, October 6, 2025.
Scott Stokes Horsemanship & Ranch Roping Clinic

****Note to All****
Mark & I want to thank Scott Stokes at S Bar J Ranch for coming to our facility and helping us, along with 11 other riders and many auditors, learn better horsemanship and ranch roping skills! Check out his website (in comments) for more information about Scott and his clinic schedule!

We also appreciate all of the people that came to ride with Scott, and those that came to audit the clinic (I think we’ll see some of the auditors as participants next year)! 😉👍 Without you all, we couldn’t continue to host Scott’s clinics every year. You all were helpful in so many ways during the clinic and you left without leaving a trace behind that you had even been here…even scooping the 💩 in the outdoor arena!! Thank you All! We’re proud to call you our friends! ❤️

Ranch Roping is nothing like rodeo style roping. We don’t tie on hard to our saddle horns, we use a hide or latigo wrap on our horns so we can ‘slip rope’ to help take pressure off a calf or a horse. We don’t chase a calf out of the chute, we rope quietly out of a ‘rodear’ or group of cattle. The calf is headed by one roper, then another roper comes in and ropes the heels. With cattle as large as ours are we’ll also rope a front foot which helps us lay the cow down much easier. Sometimes the cow will manage to get up and it will need to be ‘tailed down’, there are a few pictures of that in this series of posts. Everything we do is to try and take care in the handling of our cattle. On this final day of our clinic we roped and took down all 3 of our tiny herd so we could vaccinate and worm them. Yes, running them through a chute would be faster, but roping them is Much more Fun and it gives our horses a job to do! All of the horsemanship comes into play while roping! After the doctoring is done everyone joined in to work through some new obstacles! Some riders had to leave early today, but those remaining had a good afternoon! 🤠🐂

10/09/2025

Day 3, Part 1, Monday, October 6, 2025.
Scott Stokes Horsemanship & Ranch Roping Clinic

It’s hard to believe this is the final day of our 2025 clinic. It’s so much fun to see the progress each horse and rider team has made. Horsemanship is so important in everything we do with our horses, we can’t just throw it out the window when we rope or even trail ride. Riding with quality and consistency will build a solid relationship with our horses.

10/09/2025

Day 2, Part 2, Sunday, October 5, 2025.
Scott Stokes Horsemanship & Ranch Roping Clinic

After lunch it’s time to bring in the cattle! Today started out with splitting the crew into 2 teams that had to move the cattle through an obstacle course. This was really good for the horses that didn’t have much, if any experience with cattle. The riders learned how little it might take to turn the cattle, or how much it might take to keep one from escaping! No winners or losers, just a lot of good habits developing. Then some logging was done by some while others practiced on the dummies. After that it was time to get the hard ropes out and take some down. The red heifer was roped deep so Scott headed her so she could be heeled and taken down to get the ropes off. 🐮🤠

10/09/2025

Day 2, Part 1, Sunday, October 5, 2025.
Scott Stokes Horsemanship & Ranch Roping Clinic

Once again, mornings are for Groundwork & Horsemanship. Each day we see progress in the communication between horse & human. 🤠

10/09/2025

Day 1, Part 2, Saturday, October 4, 2025.
Scott Stokes Horsemanship & Ranch Roping Clinic

Afternoons are for Ranch Roping! Starting out on the roping dummys to fine tune the different shots, then it’s time for some breakaway roping on live cattle and finally the experienced ropers will head one and let everyone practice their heel shots on live cattle. After a while an experienced ropers will catch the heels, they’ll take the cow down and release it.

Miss Montana Rose PPRH is in training with Mark & Sue asked him if he’d ride her in the clinic. Of course he agreed to, and today she held heels with a hard honda for the very first time!! She did amazing!! ❤️

10/09/2025

Day 1, Saturday, October 4, 2025.
Scott Stokes Horsemanship & Ranch Roping Clinic

Mornings are for Horsemanship! Groundwork is so essential and should never be made light of. Then riding with feel…getting those ‘AHA’ moments when you feel the difference between a leg yield & a shoulder in, or between a shoulder in & a haunches in…just to name a few! Here are the pictures from Saturday morning. ☺️

10/09/2025

We’ve been really busy lately getting things ready for our Scott Stokes Clinic. There’s always so much to be done…setting up 12x12 pens for 8 horses, cleaning & bedding stalls for Scott’s horses, mowing, string trimming, working up both arenas, figuring out how to park trailers so the ones that need an electric hookup will have access to it, printing out release forms for us and Scott, collecting fees for Scott, collecting fees for us, keeping track of Auditors & collecting their fees, buying ice and bottled water so everyone has plenty of water on those 90 degree days! Just about the time we’re ready to give it all up, the clinic starts and we know we’re glad we did it…and we’ll DO IT AGAIN IN 2026!! ❤️ So here are some pics from the lesson day on Friday, the clinic officially started on Saturday! Starting with groundwork, then horsemanship and after lunch some roping! Enjoy!

09/24/2025

Sue Paulovich VanMeter has been getting to know Miss Montana Rose PPRH (aka Taya) under saddle, today was her 3rd ride and they’re both looking relaxed and happy! ☺️

09/02/2025

The summer of 2025 didn’t quite work out as we had planned. I made an unscheduled dismount in May and broke my pelvis. It’s now history, and I really don’t care to discuss it any more, so that door is closed…I’m moving forward! This Labor Day weekend was a special gathering of good friends that helped me ease my way back into riding again. First they helped us set up the horse pens that we’ll need for our Scott Stokes Clinic the first weekend of October, this would have been a major job for just Mark & I to do! But once the work was done we rode, ate out, socialized and repeated all weekend! Thanks so much for all you did for us Jane Hanson O'Leary, Shannon Johnson & Cyndi Skiff! ❤️

01/13/2025

Interesting!

01/01/2025

Haffy New Year!!
Let there be peace on earth! ❤️

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18859 152nd Avenue
Sperry, IA
52650

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Monday	8am - 6pm
Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 6pm
Saturday	8am - 4pm

Website

http://www.dreamcatcher-stable.com/

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