Awesome Victory for Mine That Bird

This is an awesome video of this past weekends Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird. Make sure you watch the video until at least around the 7 second mark. It is so cool to see the horses from a "birds eye view". Jockey Calvin Borel is very emotional and fun to watch. ::Michelle::

In a performance reminiscent of his winning ride aboard Street Sense two years earlier, Calvin Borel hugged the rail throughout then exploded through the stretch to guide Mine That Bird to an improbable 6 3/4-length victory over Pioneerof the Nile in the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. The victory capped off a memorable weekend for Borel, who also rode Rachel Alexandra to a one-sided triumph in Friday's Kentucky Oaks. (Source DRF)

RodeoClassifieds makes a big change

If you've been to the classifieds and then to the blog, you've seen the new look of RodeoClassifieds.com. If you've landed here first, you'll want to go check out the new classifieds site

Some of the new features include being able to post multiple pictures. 2 for free and 2 additional paid pictures. Free video linking to YouTube and the video will show up right in the ad Like this one: Stallion ad

Although most of the ads don't currenlty have the pedigrees listed, all NEW ads will be able to post their horses pedigree right in the ad.

We also have to option to purchase UNLIMITED ad subscriptions. Great for selling multiple horses at one time or for dealers. If you are selling more than 3 horses you'll want to inquire.

Customers will now be able to edit and mark their own ads Sold when logged in as well as update the pictures.

This new site has so many features, it will be exciting to see how many of you use them to to market your horses.

Register and login to receive the full benefits of the system. You can save favorites, email friends and contact sellers throuh the system.

Enjoy!

Cropping and Editing your barrel horse and rodeo horse pictures

Getting a good shot of your horse for sale is a big part of selling your horse. Another part is getting rid of the person waving their arms trying to get the horses ears forward in the picture or to get the dog running past out of the picture. There is a great online cropping and editing program I thought I would share with you. It is called "Picnik" at www.picnik.com
Its pretty straight forward to use, but you could go to YouTube and search picnik resizing, picnik cropping or just picknik and get some really great "how to" videos. In the example picture I made above, I'm just showing you the neat things you can do...I should have done a better job of cropping in this particular picture, but the point was you can do more than just crop and resize with picnik.


It is a good idea to make your digital pictures smaller before emailing them off to prospective buyers so you don't back up their email. It is also more professional.

If you would like a cool free program you can download to your computer and use offline I highly recommend Irfanview.
Here is a link to an older post where I show you how to use Irfanview, I cropping tool I use every day with a YouTube video that I made. I'm pretty sure I don't really sound like that!?

Enjoy cropping and resizing those pictures!

Michelle

Great site for equine legal topics

I have come across this site many times and often sent people to it for their horse buyers checklist. I think it is a great resource site for any horse owner (or soon to be owner) and especially those in any horse business or just buying or selling their first horse. The site name is: Equine Legal Solutions

There is a lot of FREE information and articles on the site on various topics including buying and selling,breeding, boarding, defamation in the horse world, and much more. You will find a great checklist for buying a horse under buying and selling. Great questions to ask a seller.

They do sell forms for boarding trailering and training etc. and offer consultations.

The biggest reason I wanted to share this with you is so that you have a good legal reference on the Internet. I hope you enjoy and appreciate the information the sites owner has provided for us.

RodeoClassifieds.com on FaceBook

You too can be one of the cool kids! If you are a member of Face Book, be sure to "become a fan" of RodeoClassifieds.com. You can post your pictures and video on there and we can all get to know eachother a little better.

It is not to be used to advertise your horses (you'll need a paid ad on RodeoClassifieds.com) but you are welcome to write on the wall there that you have a horse listed.

Remember every time you write on a wall, it will show up in your profile and often in your friends feeds. So you'll want to write on the wall to announce to your "friends" you've listed your horse, trailer, saddle...etc on RodeoClassifieds.com Get the word out!

Happy 2009!

Michelle