Roo-hide Event Blog

I hope everyone had a happy and safe New Year!!!
Fort Worth turned out to be a lot of fun as usual and it was nice to see everyone!
I want to say thank you to Florida cutting horse association for choosing us to provide their trophy saddle for their 2008 awards! You can learn more about them at www.floridacha.com.
Tomorrow I am on the road to buckeye Az. Arizona cutting horse associations January show. It has been a while since I have been to this show and I am looking forward to seeing everyone again, so please stop by. You can find more about the show at www.azcha.com.
Again Happy New Year!!!!!

John

We are all set up at Fort Worth!! The trip down was great the lower diesel prices were a welcome sight. This year you will find us up front and center on your way to the trade show. I hope you all will take a moment to stop by and say hello.
I am very excited about our new tree. This tree will allow us to further improve the fit for the horse and the feel for the rider. If you can believe it we have actually moved the rider closer to the horse. Stop buy and I will show you what we have done.
All the best!

John

Australia NCHA 35th Annual Futurity
Rob Hodgeman rode the Hodgeman and McGregor nomination of EB’s Mia Cdee by Bank Fulo Cdees to win the ANZ Open Futurity Final, scoring 148. Rob’s first time futurity win sent him home with a record first prize of $75,000 plus a Roo-Hide Saddlery Trophy saddle

It seems to be a burning question. Some of my competition has confidently stated that our saddles are made in Mexico or points abroad. I want to put all my clients at ease you are riding in a completely handmade saddle built with pride in the USA!!!!!
My saddles are hand cut, hand tooled and hand assembled in the USA. Other than a sewing machine we do it all by hand! I take great pride in this and will not compromise on this issue. I offer my clients both new and old my very best and nothing less, the best saddle and the best service.
To all of you that have been defending me over the years thank you. If anyone has any questions call me directly 877-766-4433 and ask.
I hope that this will help put this issue to rest.

John Burgun

It has been quite a while since my last post. The NCHA Western National was a great show we saw old friends and made new ones. The weather did not let us down we had a good dusting of snow!
From there it was a dead run to Las Vegas for the Breeders. Just like all of you the high price of diesel is making travel a bit painful. If you are at the Breeders stop by the trailer and say hi!
John

We are at the El Rancho show here in Rancho Marietta Ca, the weather has been nice just a bit windy. It is great to get back on the road and see every one again. We will be pulling up stake late Sunday on our way to the NCHA Western Nationals. We are excited to be awarding a high point saddle at the Western nationals just like we did at the Eastern Nationals. If you see the trailer stop buy!
John Burgun

I just want to let everyone know I am starting to post used roo-hide saddles for sale on our saddles store. I believe you can cut and paste this address and it will take you to the used saddles.
https://roohide.3dcartstores.com/Used-Saddles_c_6-1.html

Please take a look and call me with any questions.

John Burgon

www.Roohide.net is back!!!!!
Roo-hide is back online with the help of Aaron Ammendolia and his team Rebecca, graphic artist, and Ivan, flash developer. This has been a great team to work with and I want to thank them for all their help and vision. It is no easy task to work on a project like this with me on the road half of the time, but they hung in and the finished product is something to be proud of.
Thanks!!!
Our store is not completely populated with all our products but it is a work in progress. Please keep checking back and you will see our offerings grow.
I want to point out the Saddle security page. I want to make dealing in stolen Roo-hide saddles as difficult as possible. On the saddle security page you will find a link to a PDF that you can fill out and fax in to me to register your Roo! Registering your saddle is an important step in the recovery of your saddle if it is stolen. If you are going to buy a used Roo-hide saddle make sure you call us at the shop so we can authenticate the saddle for you.
Make sure you also keep checking my blog as this is where I will share the latest goings on at Roo-hide.
Enjoy the new site and I look forward to your feedback.
John Burgon

We want to congratulate Andrea Stillo of Italy; he is the Limited Non-Pro Champ at the AICH (Italian Cutting Horse Association) Futurity held 22-24 Feb. 2008. Andrea’s winning run was made riding a Roo-hide Saddle. We are proud to be part of your success and again want to congratulate you and your horse “Deal Or No Dual Rey” for a job well done!
John Burgun
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We are back home in El Centro and enjoyed being part of the 2008 derby. This year the PCCHA held, for the first time, the Roo-hide Ranch Invitational Cutting. There was a great turnout for the event and we want to congratulate Dan Russell who won the event and a brand new Roo-hide custom saddle.
As always we were happy to see many of our friends and clients as they stopped by the truck to get warm. We also want to congratulate Lindy Burch as the recipient of the Dave McGregor Award.
All the best to you and yours
John Burgun