WEST QUEST

St. Judes Trail Ride & Western Heritage Festival

 

April 27-29, 2007           Midway Trailer Sales, Exit 60on I-55--six miles north of Litchfield, IL

SCENIC TRAIL RIDE......HORSE TRAINING SEMINARS/CLINICS......WESTERN MUSIC & COWBOY POETRY.....WORLD CHAMPION GUNSPINNER......

RODEO QUEENS......LONGHORN STEERS......WESTERN ART........

HUGE RAFFLE.......MOUNTED SHOOTING DEMONSTRATION

SEE AND MEET:

Rick Wheat - World Famous Horse Trainer/ Inventor of Noavel HeadStall   Cowboy of the Year (National Day of the Cowboy)

Trent Loos - The voice of Rural America-his radio program is heard by 5 million listeners

Dr. Ron Johnson - Nationaly prominent equine dentist

Orval Irvin - Mid-West Champion Mounted Shooter

Abby Keegan - Nutrena equine nutrition specialist

Frank Bowman - President of the Illinois Horse Council

Jeff Hildebrandt - Director of the Western's Channel, America's best Cowboy Poet

Bob Hamm - World Champion Gun Spinner

Kelesa Walker - 2007 Miss Rodeo Illinois

Corky Helms and Marty Lareg - exhibiting their famous Texas Longhorn Cattle

Bianca Massa - 14 year old horse trainer and her trick horse, Skippy

Ron Hauser - Noted Western Artist

Haley Huff - 2006 & 2007 Illinois High School Rodeo Queen

Entertainment by:

Priscilla Preston, The Saddle Tramps, Orval Irvin, Andy Wiesenhofer, Roger DeWitt, Doug Heaton, and Debby Barnes.

Huge RAFFLE:

100'S of items donated for the RAFFLE including 3 horses, a new Saddle, 5 complete horse training video kits from National Trainer Andy Bird ($1000 value), horse feed, and much more!

Schedule:

Friday at 1:00 p.m. RICK WHEAT - National Day of The Cowboy, Cowboy of the year, will be correcting bad habits and behavioral problems with horses

Saturday starting at 9:00 am.  Exhibits, Clinics, Demonstrations, Country Western Music and Cowboy Poetry presented by National Famous Entertainers and Experts.

Trail Ride begins at 10:00 a.m. and takes about 3-hours.  A $10 donation will be collected from riders.  Several flights of riders will be sent out.

Sunday Morning at 9:00 a.m. - Cowboy Church presided over by Jeff Hildebrandt

For information contact-Chick Bishop at 217-324-4651 or Andy Bird at 800-763-4469