One-of-a-kind saddle will be auctioned to help local family

For over 30 years, Buck Brannaman has been working with horses and their owners through clinics. Teaching those with horses how to properly handle and train them. 

Today, Brannaman and his clinics are leading practitioners of handling horses based on classical concepts from the California vaquero tradition; working with the horse’s nature. By understanding how horses think and communicate, people learn how to train the horse to accept humans and work confidently and responsively. 

But when Mary Brannaman appeared on Sheridan Media’s Public Pulse, it was due to a sense of community and helping those you care for in one’s day-to-day life. 

The Brannaman’s and many other helping hands will be holding a fundraiser for Maysa Hagel after she suffered a stroke at only 25 years of age. 

Mary Brannaman. 

The fundraiser will include two auctions. The first is for a saddle created by German saddle makers Wolfgang Fey and Fritz Riedl, with silver work done by eight different master silversmiths. 

The custom one-of-a-kind saddle will be auctioned off in July at Kings Saddlery. Also being auctioned is a two year old filly that will be worked at the colt starting clinic to be held June 1-4, at Houlihan Ranch, 376 Meade Creek Rd. Crafted items will be for sales in booths that will also help pay for medical expenses.  

To learn more about Buck Brannaman Clinics, click here.