Are you ready to start reining? Need help with your horse? Join the California Reining Horse Association for its fabulous Beginner Reiner Clinic on July 28 at Green Oaks Ranch in Temecula. You’ll learn how to fine tune your maneuvers from some great, local California trainers! The rider fee of $150 for the day includes lunch, and if you’d prefer to audit the clinic, you can for just $30. And since you are marking your calendar, make sure you write in the CRHA’s Second Annual “Slide on the Beach Reining Show,” which will be held Aug. 4 at the River Valley Ranch in San Diego. With a full slate of CRHA classes, a Jack and Linda Baker qualifying class, and a Team Reining Jackpot, you’ll be in for a fun-filled day in the sun! See the ad on page 41 or call (951) 600-8999.

Speaking of reining, top reining and cow horse trainer Nicolas Barthelemy will be relocating to Ramona, effective Aug. 1st, to Creek Hollow Ranch, located at 25279 Creek Hollow Drive. For more info, call Nicolas at (619) 733-4434.

It’s not too early to look at the fall hunter-jumper activity in the Sacramento area! The “Let’s Show” fall schedule is out, and there will be some great events coming up: The A-rated Fall Festival will be held Oct. 3-6 at the Brookside Equestrian Park in Elk Grove, which will host the the Cloverleaf Medals Finals, the $5,000 Cloverleaf Jumpers, and the 3’ Zone 10 Medal Challenge. A few weeks later, the Halloween Championship will be Oct. 23-27 at the Murieta Equestrian Center in Rancho Murieta. Classes will include the $15,000 “Bubba” Grand Prix, the $6,000 Haunted Hunter Derby, a Carolyn Day Horsemanship Special, and the wildly fun $2,500 Mounted Costume Contest! For more info, call Peggy Fackrell (916) 947-4305, and see the ad on page 74.

Hutchings Performance Horses in Fallon, Nevada invites you to its Eighth Annual Silver Buckle Horse Sale on Aug. 24th. The ranch produces Quarter Horses for ranching, team roping, reining and working cow horse events, all with superior genetics and high quality. Make your plans to attend, and be sure to see the ad on page 31.

Thinking of improving your horse facility or home? Maybe it’s time to fix that driveway or get the storm drain set before the rains. Whatever your needs, J.D. Burns Construction can help out. They’ve been in business for over 35 years and offer a broad scope of construction services, including complete onsite and offsite work, engineering (site design), custom grading, excavation, house pads, barn pads, arenas, driveways, roads, flood control, barn moving, slope repair and more! Serving Southern California, J.D. Burns Construction is ready to assist you with your next project. Call J.D. at (714) 742-9752 and see the ad on page 25.

The Anaheim Hills Cattle Club is offering Ranch Sorting on Sunday afternoons at 1 p.m. They have a covered arena for year-round events, and the AHCC offers discounted sorting runs with membership in the club. Anaheim Hills also will host the Pacific Coast Ranch Sorting Association’s 2013 Summer Jackpot Series, with dates Aug. 24 and Sept. 28. Sign-ups will start at 8 a.m., with a 9 a.m. start. There is added money in each division and buckles in each division! Call Andy at (714) 397-2830 to learn more, see the ad on page 75.