We have been interested in horses for quite a while, but have only been actively involved as owners/caretakers since 2002. Scott used to ride most Sunday afternoons while in high school with a couple of friends. After the end of school their junior year they went on a week long horseback trip in Huntington Canyon. Lots of 'interesting' events that will be documented elsewhere. Scott also rode while on his mission for the LDS church on the Navajo Indian reservation, 1975-77. Again, a number of exciting stories from that episode that will be recorded elsewhere, someday. Scott's brother, Ben, had a number of horses including Pay Chex, a grulla AQHA stallion. Our first horse of the "modern" era is PJ (Pay Chex's Jewell, b. 1984) a grulla Paint mare that was sired by Pay Chex and was out of Jewells, a Paint. PJ was named by Ronda. We brought PJ to Alpine in January of 2003. Gamble (b. 1982) a Quarter horse gelding, came early that summer. We added Kip (registered name Capital Gold Smoke b. 2000), a POA, in the spring of 2004 and Kori in 2007 after leasing him since 2005. Kori (registered name Koriadni Vector+ b. 1995) is an Arabian and earned his LEGION of MERIT award in 2008. We added Beau (also an Arabian with the registered name Crimson Beau Dean b. 1994) to the herd in December 2008.

This is the rider "WADARD" going into battle with William the Conquer at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. This may be the earliest reference to the "WOODWARD" name and is found on the "Tapestry of Bayeux". Looks like our family connection with horses goes back 1000 years!

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We did an abbreviated version of our annual Christmas Eve ride to deliver our gifts throughout the neighborhood. The roads were pretty snowy and slick, so we went a little early, didn't spend as much time on the roads and went down to the field at the end of the road and pulled the sled around using Kip. It was our first ride on Beau out of the arena.

Crimson Beau Dean, "Beau" was added to the herd December 11th. We saw him advertised "free to a good home" on KSL.com and put in our application. Check out this early video. Within 36 hours he had made the move from St. George to Alpine! He is getting acclimated very fast. Check out the snow picture from Christmas Eve here.

Kori and Jerusha are 2008 AHA Region 8 Unanimous Champions in Hunter Pleasure! You can see their ribbons from the Denver show here.

Kip is the 2008 Utah POA High Point Gelding! (again! he also was the 2006 High Point Champion)

Jerusha on Kip and Scott on Beau with Mike, Christmas Eve 2008

More pictures can be found on the Photos page.