Thunder Mountain Ranch, LLC

🇺🇸🐴 LABOR DAY WEEKEND TRAIL RIDES! 🐴🇺🇸

Come enjoy the holiday weekend in the saddle! 🌅 We will be offering 1-hour trail rides for just $20 per rider!

📅 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH
🕔 5:00 PM - 5 available
🕕 6:00 PM - 5 available
🕖 7:00 PM - 5 available

📅 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH
🕔 5:00 PM - 4 available
🕕 6:00 PM - 1 available
🕖 7:00 PM - 5 available

📅 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH
🕔 5:00 PM - 5 available
🕕 6:00 PM - 5 available
🕖 7:00 PM - full

⭐ $20 per rider
🐴 Maximum 5 riders per ride
👯 Buddy riders are welcome for $5 each — they don’t count as a rider but can still ride along!

📍 Thunder Mountain Ranch
10088 Thunder Rd., Fayetteville, AR 72701

✔️ By appointment only
👢 Closed-toed shoes required
👖 Pants recommended

💵 Cash preferred! We also accept Venmo, PayPal, Cash App & Zelle.

✨ Come ride with us and make memories that last a lifetime! Message us to book your spot! 🐎💙

Open to all current lesson students and outside of TMR family!

Come join a team that’s become a family!!!!

If your leasing I have to meet with you prior to tryouts.

TMR family, we need your help! 💙💚🐴

We are looking for volunteers from our TMR family to help with the Horses for Hope event on September 19, 2026, at Jasper Springs Ranch in Fayetteville, Arkansas!

There are several ways you can help, including:

🐴 Leading horses for riders
🐴 Helping tack up and take tack off
🐴 Potentially assisting another crew with their miniature ponies
🤝 Helping with event setup, activities, guests, and anything else the event owner may need
💚 Most importantly, helping us create a special and meaningful experience for everyone attending!

And there’s a little bonus… ALL VOLUNTEERS GET TO EAT FREE! 🍽️🙌

This will be a drug & alcohol-free environment, and we want to make sure we have a great group of TMR family members there to help make the day a success.

📅 September 19, 2026
📍 Jasper Springs Ranch — Fayetteville, AR
📩 Please RSVP with me by September 15th if you are interested in helping!

👕Event Tshirts - https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/horses-for-hope-tee-shirt
Must order by September 1st to have before event, but are welcome to order after deadline if you’d like to have a keepsake!

We appreciate every one of you who is willing to give your time, your energy, and your heart. ❤️

Let’s show up as the TMR family we are and make a difference! 🐴💚

2026 AQHA Bay Roan Filly

SIRE: Catolena Joe
Mia Browbeater (Highbrow CatxQuejanamia) LTE $61,914 X Roan Poco Dots
Incentives: Royal Crown Roping, International Ranch Horse Association Futurity, Texas Quarter Horse Association Rope Horse Futurity, Pitzer Ranch Horse Futurity, Nebraska Ranch Horse Association Futurity, Iowa Ranch Horse Association Futurity
Future Riata Buckle Stallion 2027

2025 AQHA World Show Qualifier, AQHA Point Earner, ARHFA 2025 Intermediate Head Horse Champion. LTE: $19,480

DAM: Chisums Black Onyx
Chisums Tornado X Chisums Tyree Peach

97% Foundation Quarter Horse
AQHA Ranching Heritage Eligible

{will be available for pickup by end of October, you put a deposit on her now you get to name her!}
Fayetteville, AR

Discounted rides!!!!

🗓️ August 29th
9:00am - full
10:00am - full
11:00am - full

🗓️August 30th
9:00am - 1 spot
10:00am - 1 spot
11:00am - 1 spot

☀️🐴 IS IT TOO HOT TO RIDE? DO THE MATH FIRST!

Just because your horse is willing to work in the heat doesn’t mean it’s safe.

One of the easiest ways to estimate how efficiently your horse can cool himself is to add the actual air temperature (°F) + relative humidity (%).

🌡️ TEMPERATURE + HUMIDITY = YOUR NUMBER

Here’s a quick guide:

Temp + Humidity What It Means

Under 130 🟢 Lower risk — horses can cool themselves relatively efficiently

130–150 🟡 Use caution — cooling ability is decreased

Over 150 🔴 High risk — cooling ability is greatly reduced; avoid riding when possible

Over 180 🚨 DANGEROUS — conditions can become life-threatening with exertion

☀️ HERE'S AN EXAMPLE:
It’s 100°F outside with 58% relative humidity.
100 + 58 = 158
🔴 That puts your horse OVER 150.

Even though 58% humidity may not sound terrible, when combined with a 100°F air temperature, your horse has a much harder time getting rid of the heat produced during exercise.

DON'T FORGET THE INDIVIDUAL HORSE

These numbers are a guideline, not a guarantee of safety.
Older horses, overweight horses, horses that aren't conditioned to the heat, horses with long hair coats, and especially horses with anhidrosis can develop heat stress much sooner.

When temperatures are extreme, consider riding early in the morning, shortening your workout, decreasing the intensity, taking frequent breaks and providing plenty of water.

Sometimes the safest training decision you can make is simply:
It's too hot. We'll ride another day.

Training Tip of the day:

END ON A GOOD NOTE

When you’re doing session sons and you just got the best stop in the world. Stop. When your horse found a new gear between first and second for the first time. Stop. When your horse finally set the right pocket and turned on a dime. Stop. Because that horse is gonna remember that good thing and that they were praised for it. It’ll make the rides after go smooth.
When your trainer seen a 1% improvement in your horse during the session. Stop. Let it sit in their brain and remember that it was good. Even if it’s the very first run of your session and you only rode for 15 minutes. That one good note you just left on can make the world of difference 🙌
I promise it’s okay to not have a full training session, it’s okay if it took an hour to get to that good note, and it’s okay if it’s only 1% better than yesterday💙