I am honored and excited to be asked back to this year’s University of Arkansas’ Horse Festival.  Dr. Jack and the crew are planning a bigger, improved and exciting celebration of all aspects of horses.  Please take the opportunity to come and share in this experience.

2008 has been good for Blue and me.  We have made, literally, hundreds of new friends as we traveled the country doing clinics, demonstrations and riding the beautiful trails.  We appreciate all the support, encouragement and help from everyone as we shared the experience of becoming a “true partner” with your horse.

For all of you that did not get a chance to participate in a clinic or see a demonstration, 2008 can be your opportunity.

In September, 2007, Blue and I were at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri to help them with the Salute to the Great American Cowboy in association with the City’s Festival of American Music and Craftsmanship (www.silverdollarcity.com).  We were on the venue with some cowboy greats, Buck Taylor, Michael Martin Murphy, Waddy Mitchell, and Red Stegal.  

About Fred
Fred’s unique approach to training wild mustangs works equally well with regular horses. His halter and ground working techniques build trust and instill confidence between you and your horse. His training philosophy and methods help develop a desire in your horse to “do what you ask it to do” and helps you understand the difference in “asking for results” rather than “forcing compliance” from your horse.  His proactive manner works to create a leader/partner role without stress, fear or trauma. The closeness that develops between you and your equine partner could get you to believe that the horse “reads” your mind. Fred is an avid trail rider and horse trainer. Although considered an experienced horseman, with over 35 years of working with horses, his methods of training and approach to horses has changed from the rough and tough, “show’em who’s boss” manner to a more successful, understanding of horse behavior due to the influence of many clinicians, including Craig Cameron, Curt Pate, and Ray Hunt.

Between riding “outside horses” for people, conducting horsemanship clinics and educational seminars, working with the National Park Service and other groups on equine issues, and assisting the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program, adopted Mustangs and their owners, Fred currently works for the United State Department of Agriculture and teaches Equine Sciences at North Arkansas College in Harrison, Arkansas.

About Fred's Mustangs
Blue Bonnet Spearman, named after Robert Duval's character in "Open Range" is a coming 3 year old blue roan I adopted at a BLM auction in Harrison, AR. He was captured in Wyoming. Blue (photos below) is the horse I use for everything, from giving rides to kids to packing things for the Park Service. I've owned Blue a little over a year.
  Charmayne is a coming 2 year old dun filly from Arizona. She is still in "basic training" and doing well. I selected her to do a clinic at the BLM adoption in Jonesboro. I didn't plan on adopting another horse, but she did so well at the clinic I signed up and as luck would have it, got first pick in the lottery method so I took her home.
I also have Baxter, a blue roan yearling born in a long term care facility in Oklahoma, and Falcon, a pinto mustang from Oregon. He was a 4 year stallion (now a gelding) and is a work in progress.

Mustangs have taught me more about the "mind" of horses than any clinician. They are true in the sense they are all horse. No selective breeding, except survival of the fittest. They are the best at what they are: A Horse. The methods I used with mustangs also work exceptional well with domestic horses. The herd instinct is highly developed in Mustangs and they respond to a leader, whether man or horse, in the same manner. I instill the desire to do "what I ask" instead of "making a demand" by using the body language of the Mustang.

Click here to download Fred's 2008 Clinic Schedule

Fred Woehl
Soaring Eagle Ranch
Harrison, AR
870-391-9918 or cswoehl@alltel.net