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Horseman’s Corner Extended Edition

Horseman’s Corner Extended Edition

Written by: Hale Broadcasting
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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!

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  • Tray Pelster Full Interview Part 1

    Tray Pelster Full Interview Part 1
    May 17 2026
    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 definitely different. It's scary and also nice to get back on a horse. How'd you get started in horses anyway? I don't know if I really got started. I was kind of immersed in it my whole life. My dad he trained horses for the public and also for my grandfather who was actually he raised his own Appaloosa but he did the reined cow horse and cutting and he showed them at a world level a nationals and world level. And he also went to with several of his horses with his stud and his mares to the NRCHA which is National Reined Cow Horse Association to the finals. It was kind of impressive at the time because they were Appaloosas and Appaloosas are just not horses you generally look at. My grandma was a firm believer and if you're going to learn how to ride you're going to do it right. Even though my dad was a working ranch hand and a cowboy he was ready to ride correctly but he wrote English for a short stint there. So I showed him English and roped for pretty much my whole ...
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    15 mins
  • Steve Sward with the Late Howard Hale

    Steve Sward with the Late Howard Hale
    Apr 25 2026

    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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    21 mins
  • Thinking Like Horses with Dr. Steve Peters

    Thinking Like Horses with Dr. Steve Peters
    Feb 16 2026

    Full Interview
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    48 mins
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