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| Joyce, our first place open class winner for Saturday |
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| Adam, our first place open winner Sunday |
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The DD Ranch would like to thank everyone who challenged the heat to join us for our first ever ACTHA Ride!! I want to personally thank you for your patience with us while we figured everything out!! As we expected for our first ride there were of course some mistakes, and situations that we definatly learned from and intend to improve on in the future!! If you will continue to grow with us I think that you will be pleasently surprised with our improvements!!
Just as we have to learn from our mistakes, and make changes in the future, we want to bring a few issues to the attention of the ACTHA members that might not be a bad idea for you to improve on as well!! As an affiliate, there is a tremendous amount of planning and work and expense that goes along with planning an event of this magnitude. Keeping that in mind the more time that the affiliates have to prepare, the more organized your ride will be.
For our ride in June, there were only 8 people signed up for the ride the week before the scheduled ride. I am sure that you can understand from our prespective, we did not want to spend a lot of money, and time in the heat knowing that we would certainlly be in debt if no more participants signed up. Just as I am not a competative person, I am also not a gambeler!! If you guys will commit to me, then I will commit to you!! I promise you that if we have an accurate number of participants by the beginning of October that we will have the best prizes, and the best obsticles, and the best judges!! If everyone waits until the last minute to sign up, then I will in turn have to wait until the last minute to prepare!! Fair is fair right!!
As of right now with full participation our plans are to have 12 seperate obsticles, and 2 different trails than you rode for the July ride. A haunted hay ride saturday evening, a chili cook off that you are welcome to participate in, weenie rost, music, dancing, costume contest for riders and horses. And a full fledged awards ceremony complete with prizes for the top 3 riders in all 3 classes. Again this is up to you guys. We would also like suggestions from the riders for what you would like to see for prizes, and obsticles ect. We are 100% here for you, and I think that we proved that to everyone during the July ride.
I would also like to bring to your attention that in some of our learning experiences from that ride, that we learned that our inexperience caused us to try to accomidate everyone maybe a little to much, so for the next ride, we will be non negotiable on the obsticles and the judging. The obsticles will be made available by 6am the morning of the ride, and all questions will need to be asked at the riders meeting, and however the obsticle is sat up is the way it will be left. So for those of you who disapproved of that, please be assured that it will not happen next ride.
If anyone has any question or suggestions please feel free to contact Dinell at 314-503-7494 or email me at dinell@ddranch.us.com. I would also like to invite anyone who would like to participate in the planning process who feels like they have more experience with ACTHA and could provide posative reenforcement we welcome the input!!
Thanks Again, and I hope to see you all in October!!
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| Heading out to the trail Saturday 7-24-2010 |
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| Naptime is over, It is time to ride!! |
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It was a cold winter, and a wet spring, but now it is time to wake up and ride!! We would like to thank everyone for your patience with us while we get everything in order. We have been blessed with the opportunity to expand our ranch almost 1400 acres. Check out our for sale page for hay for sale. You should aslo make sure to keep up with our schedule page for upcomming events.
We will be hosting ACTHA rides throughout the summer. You must be a member to attend these rides, so please visit their website at www.actha.us for more information about becomming a member.
We will also be in need of volunteers for the rides, so give us a call if you are interested.
See you at the ranch!!
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Summer was hot, and our horses had a break, but fall is approaching, and its time to get back into the saddle again!!
September will be customer appreciation month, and all of our prices will be discounted for the entire month. If you print the coupon on this page and bring it with you will, receive 10% off on all of our services.
Call today to make reservations for the Labor Day Ride!! Our last hooray to summer. We will be offering guided trail rides on our newest addition to the ranch. 1400 acres of private land to ride to ride on. Beautiful views of the changing colors, historical homes built with the logs from the property, and more.
For those of you who are not horse people, thats ok our campground offers plenty to do for everyone!! Check us out!!
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| Watch the green fade..... |
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CUSTOMER APPRECIATION MONTH
This coupon entitles visitors to
10% off of final purchase
during the month of September
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| It was an explosive time!! |
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Thanks to everyone who came out and camped and rode with us for the 4th of July Ride. We all took up a collection for severance pay for the meterologists!! We got rained on again, but just like Memorial Day the last day was the best!!
We had great food, fireworks, and met some new friends.
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Wow what a weekend!! We didn't have a lot of people out, but the ones that we did I believe had a great time. In spite of the uncooperative weather. The rain was a refreshing relief from the hot, muggy, still air!! The creek felt great to!! We had some of our box stalls built this time, and we had our electric campsites graveled. We had a roof on our concession building, and lights as well. We are getting there. If you have not been out in a while you should definitely come pay us a visit and see our progress!! Its like visiting someplace new every time you come out!! See our progress in the slide show!!
Happy Trails
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A HUGE THANKS to everyone who not only participated, but contributed additional funds to help meet our goal for the Siteman Cancer Center. I am sorry to say that we fell a little short of my personal goal. We raised about $750.00, and my personal goal was $2000.00. I am not disappointed though, and I have no intention of stopping there!! I am going to run an internet campaign, and try to contact some local businesses to try to meet that goal. If there is anyone out there that was not able to participate, but would like to contribute, please feel free to contact Dinell at dinell@ddranch.us.com or We have a paypal account on this website for your conveinance. Thanks again for your contributions.
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Anyone who has additional pictures of the April 25, ride please email them to Dinell at dinell@ddranch.us.com to add to the website. Thanks Ranch Staff.
We also wanted to let everyone know that we found Jacks owners, and he is safe at home where he belongs. We are quite certain he will be back to visit us again though after the good food and kids attention he recieved. To you wagon folks, he did live at the Log home on the right side of the road.
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WOW!! What a great weekend!! Dean & Dinell and the rest of the DDRanch Family would like to extend their thanks to everyone that attended the ride this weekend. We had wonderful weather, fabulous food, and made lots of new friends. We hope that you all had as good of a time as we did. Our next scheduled event will be on memorial day weekend. We will be offering camping, bbq, trail riding, swimming and much needed R&R. Come back and see us again real soon!!
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The DDRanch would like to thank Frank and Betty Reed for their valued advise, and moral support during our challenges.
Frank Reed RV
Street Address:
Hwy. 47 N & 1991 N Service Rd.
St. Clair, MO 63077
Local Phone: (636) 583-2244
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Sales (new and pre-owned) delivery anywhere in the US. Full service, RV parts store, storage, friendly and helpful staff, Fleetwood dealer for 36 years. Coffee pot's on.
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A huge thank you goes out to the Missouri Conservation Department, and the Franklin County Planning and Zoning Department and all of our guests, without you none of this would be possible. We appreciate all of your support. So thanks again!!!
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***** We would like to thank you for your participation in the St.Patty's Day Ride. We had a wonderful day. The weather was great, and the food was fabulous. We also want to thank everyone that helped to make our day a success!!*****
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We would like to thank Deppe Farms and Williams Brothers Processing for thier contribution to our Siteman Cancer Ride. Every little bit counts...
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| Pappa D and his new little pony Fee Bee the Shire. |
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