|  EZ-Connector Horse Expo Tour 2013
For the new year, we have switched to 4 new shows Brought to you by MrTruck.com, EZ-Connector Trailer Wire Coupling & HorseTrailerWorld.com Feb. 8-10, 2013. We’re here, the big Kansas horse expo again. Great layout, all in one warm building. Over 150 vendors with deals, clinicians, even a truck presentations with MrTruck. Some closeout specials on tack, great selection of saddles. Cushion EZ Clean Horse Expo Tour. 
My neighbors, Transwest and Prairie Land below  
 In Ft. Worth Texas now. The show starts tomorrow, June 1st. Inside and air conditioned. My presentation is tomorrow at 12.30 at the Seminar Stage in Richardson-Bass Building. You can ask me questions, hackle me or bring me pecan rolls. I have pictures. Come see the Express corrals, see the inventor of the Safety Hitch and meet the folks from Centramatic.Plenty of entertainment, come see the horse expo Texas style.We’re checking out all the steakhouses at night.Free magazines, see the movies. Here’s the booth to look for in the Amon G. Carter building. | 
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| | Plenty of horse art, this from driftwood | Mesquite Wood Gallery | Freedom’s Spirit is steel | Express Corral is a nice package | | 
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| | Terri Sharp is in charge of the show | Dennard’s | Texas Hill Country Furniture is in my row, come by and see the wood tub | Dogs and Horses, artist at work | | 
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| | Speaking of Horses | Bob Jeffreys & Suzanne Sheppard | Mafayr Rose Creations | Cinch Chicks, hay net for the big bales | | 
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| | Everyone knows Shorty’s from Oklahoma | Porta-Grazer, controlled feeding | Lyndon Gaither artist with color | Vaquera Boutique | | | 
 We’re here, the big Kansas horse expo. Great layout, all in one warm building. Over 150 vendors with deals, clinicians, even a truck presentation with MrTruck. Some closeout specials on tack, great selection of saddles.
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| | Jared and Debbie are in charge | West 20 Ranch and Saddle | Country Boys Carriage | Not sure, but I think they are multiplying | | 
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| | Free hand metal art was awesome, on the left is a 911 memorial for a Kansas airport. B&B metal arts | R bar B has the tallest horse, big selection of tack at EquiFest | Tractor Supply is finally coming to Colorado. I won a dog toy throwing horseshoes in a bucket | abi equine, arena grooming | | 
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| | This is me, next to the workshop room | Ride Happy, couldn’t find the models for the sweats | HydraBed was around when I was in high school 3 decades ago | Pottery | | 
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| | Lynwood Equine stall drainage floors | The main arena had programs all day from mounted shooting, to Hunter and Jumper and wagons. Saturday is Ranch Rodeo | I thought Bronco Billy’s was a Clint Eastwood movie | Transwest has Cimarron Trailers and Logan Coach | | 
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| | Snuck in a picture from the Horse Trailer Showcase in OK City last weekend | Workshops | Abby with Signature Quarters Living Quarters from Nebraska | Circle G from Missouri with Merhows | | 
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| | Got to have some from CL Saddles and Tack | Flint Custom Hats | EZE Latch for hooking and unhooking your coupler | The crowds | | | June 10-12, 2011; Western States Horse Expo, Sacramento CA at Cal Expo | | 
| | Beautiful weather, made it through Donner pass. This is the target, where all the new toys are, Safr Trailer, MegaHitch, GanderLock, Fastway and more all the products I review on RFD TV Equestrian Nation | | 
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| | Logan Coach’s new upgradedWhiz Proof Pro floor is permanent rubber flooring, never pull a mat again | Solar for Southern Cal | Good crowds at the clinicians | Jumping demonstration | | 
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| | Yep those are chaps and a saddle | These are the horse pack packs I’m getting my granddaughters | Myler Bits and the boss | Bob Avila | | 
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| | This is art | Signs, signs everywhere a sign | Cowboy Mounted Shooting | Clinton Anderson had a booth there | | 
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| | Dubarry of Ireland is in deep water, just needs some concho’s | Plenty of learn’n going on | They found me | MrTruck groupee’s | | 
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| | Sawtooth Saddle Company has the real cowboy accessories | Charles Wilhelm | I do not know, but it looked interesting | This should be my next review | | 
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| | AgCamera.com watches my trailer | Trailer Specialist has Logan Coach, Titan Trailers and Circle C | Travel N Corrals | My neighbor has the awesome wood furniture | | 
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| | Hard work putting the big barns together for 3 days | Kioti tractors | Gander Lock for gooseneck security | MegaHitch bumper pull locks | |  
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| | This is what I’d like to do with my truck, turn it into a flower bed | D2 Trailer Sales is here | Another electric saddle rack | Cool planters from Horse Highways | |  
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| | Safr trailers in Wendy Chowning’s booth have shocks. This is the first place the new Safr Trailers will be offered for sale. It’s like a heavy duty Brenderup | Several tractor booths this year, this one from Valley | The sign guys are here again | McCall saddles |  We’ll have some new products introduced at ColumbusApril is the Equine Affaire at Columbus Ohio, April 7-10, 2011 NowLeft Colorado in a blizzard Sunday, Six states from home and pothole city in Indiana Interstate, it’s amazing we made it. Our Booth is in front of the Celeste Arena | | The new Safr Horse Trailer is introduced to the US at the Equine Affaire today with great interest. | | 
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| | Amazing artist does wood carvings with a chainsaw | Bricker building has hats | It’s mower season | Leonard’s has the largest selection at the expo | | 
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| | Priefert wagon, big ones | Everyone loves mini’s | West 20 Saddles | Denny Chapman, mounted shooting, rope tricks, Wild West Entertainer, and Mane and Tail | | 
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| | Classes….. | Demonstrations…. | Clinicians….. | Guy McLean from Down Under is entertaining to watch | | 
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| | The cutest horse puppets with “I Make Horse Calls” | All the horse stickers you’d want | Leo Fautras demonstrates a unique 3h slant BP from France. Nice to meet folks that put their name on every trailer they build | This is cool, Linkhorn Infrared imaging for finding problems in your horse, picture is me taking a picture | | 
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| | Gooseneck Easy Coupler has a new 9 in. short-bed extension | Eclipse trailer with cool bunk beds in the tack room | Trailer rebuild from Maxed Out Customs | Buckley Fence | | 
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| | Bigfoot’s new remote control unit for their hydraulic jack | Custom Tails | Lynda Sappington, beautiful horse sculptures | Travel N Corrals comes to Ohio | Equine Affaire, Pomona CA, Feb. 3-6 2011 at the Fairplex, 10 below zero at home in Colorado, now I’m under the palm trees and in sixties and seventies in Pomona 
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| | Palm trees, water falls and fountains, my kind of place | Mary Ellen working, late with Equine Affaire | Pony Pops raced me here from Colorado, I won | Phoenix Phire Designs with beautiful horse furniture | | 
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| | John Deere’s into arena grooming in a big way | Lance Campers are popular here | Yamaha carts, they make generators too, but nobody knows | Big names here like Chris Cox | | 
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| | Dometic auto awning, it rolls up automatically if the wind blows too hard and will dump rain by itself and has a remote control | Jonathan Field | Debora Racheter, saddle fitting demonstration | Snap-Loc cargo management, well made way to keep things from flying out of your truck bed | | 
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| | Mikmar bits | Kubota poop scooper | Craig Cameron | Equi-Spirit toys, everyone needs a giant bouncy ball | | 
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| | Saw Tooth, cowboy cool stuff | Bronco Sue, custom hats | EquiPedic saddle pads | HydraHorse water bowls | | | 
All American Quarter Horse Congress, Columbus Ohio. Oct. 5-24, 2010 Three weeks, come by for a visit and to see the latest products for your horse trailer, free magazines Brittany Barker from Indiana is the 2010 Congress Queen | | 
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| | Shadow trailers with EZ Connector trailer plug, standard | MrTruck’s Cruzin Cooler | Joe Cordoza of EZ Connector did many demos with a crowd gathered around | Greens Solar Solutions has a radiant heat barrier cooking in his booth | | 
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| | Road apple separator demonstrator at Cashmans | Featherlite’s Lynn Palm trailer made it to Congress | Centramatic wheel balancers | Sundowner. | | 
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| | Blue Ribbon Custom Tack | Stud row | Golf carts everywhere you look | Lots of horse exercising going on day and night | | 
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| | Win a Yearling | Congress Corral is where the deals are done | Bloomer’s in town | Farrier’s are working hard | | 
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| | Coaches make a good wind break | Featherlite dump trailer | Eby trailers in the Annex | Sooner in Congress Hall | | 
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| | Rodeo Boot Co. has an awesome rocking horse | I need this sign | The booth you’re looking for | After 3 weeks at Congress you start seeing things | Congress Queen Contestants | 
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| | Tiffany Jennings, Ohio QHA | Lisa Flaschberger, Northern Ohio QHA | Working out with Courtney Sturgill, Virginia QHA | Tisha Hanley, Easter Ohio QHA | | 
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| | Ashley Schulze, OMI QHA | Maggie Hass, North Carolina QHA | Lindsey Ruggiero, New Jersey QHA | Erica Morgan, Tennesse QHA | | 
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| | Kisten Martin, Illinois QH Racing Assc. | Stacy Saltzman, Florida QHA | | 
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| | Ball signs | Blue Ribbon is here in force | Mike Green with Sierra conversions is working hard | Blue Ribbon with 4 seasons basement, allowing a short step to the bedroom | | 
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| | Silver smithing bits | Saddlematic | Straight A’s Supply, where my steps and door storage came from | Nice view from the top of my trailer | | 
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| | Met Leopold Bloom, the LionHead rabbit, he was comparing trailers, liked our Wiz Proof floor | Lakota has many models here | Brian Jaeger with CeramicRoofs.com has a great demo | Merhow has tall trailers here, I’m working on my review today, with the carriage model. | | 
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| | The new Shetron horse trailer is here with a couple of trailers | Adams trailers are here every year. | 4-Star has a lot of trailers at Congress | Sportchassis has some deals on last years trucks | | 
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| | Several booths with tail extensions | Bison Trailers, a Navistar company, is here | This is the show you see big coach’s pulling horse trailers | The new Gooseneck Easy Coupler with Craig and | | 
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| | Tiffany Jennings, Ohio Quarter Horse Association Queen, in competition for Congress Queen | Ryan with Sundby’s Trailer Sales show the Wiz Proof trailer floor in a Logan Coach | CeramicRoofs.com’s Brian Jaeger demonstrates insulation with Glen Burkholder of Bison Trailers | Outlaw Conversions in a Hart | | 
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| | My neighbors sell saddles | This is the target area | Finish Line non electric fence | Pink Eclipse | | 
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| | Check out the Ireland boots | Shorty’s Hattery has a mascot | Coughlin Auto has a GM frame that shows the changes for 2011 | The Slide, lots of classes competing | | 
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| | Travel-N-Corrals | Shorty’s always have the cool boots | Exiss Trailers | The curtain girls were working hard | | 
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| | Stagecoach West | 4 Star Trailers | Harris has Bling, Bling | Elite Trailers | | 
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| | My neighbors are Hart, some very shining trailers | Come see the Safety Hitch | The new HydraHorse for inside and outside your trailer | Bunkhouse Conversions…. | | 
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| | demonstrate their overhead framed AC duct work….. | and bedroom suites | Cashman’s has everything | and even a store bar | Western States Horse Expo in Sacramento CA June 11-13, 2010 
| Western States Horse Expo, the place where new products and ideas are introduced. I see more new stuff here than any expo. The theme this year is saving hay, lots of products about feeding with less waste. This show has a dog show too, new for the expo. Friday night’s special show is the Honoring Equines For Life Project (HELP) Rescue, trainers showcase. Magnificent 7 always draws a big crowd. Altec FEI World Equestrian Games in Kentucky, are selling tickets next to my booth. Nice Corvette display there too.Something else to see is a dwarf miniature named Moncho Man with NorCal Equine Rescue. A recue horse himself, had hoof problems so he wears sneakers from Build-A-Bear. Lots of wind on Friday, next two days are to be good for the weather. | | 
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| | Lots of Kentucky beer at the Altec booth next door | Paso Fina full dress tack | Leg Saver panels, it’s California, so off course they had implants | Fastway, forget the block under your jack | I have to have my morning Latte too | | 
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| | Can’t quite identify the breed of horses here | Wood shavings is a big business in California horse industry | Shake’N Fork, your automatic muck fork sorter | Easy Feeder ll | Capsule automatic grain feeder | | 
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|  | | They wouldn’t let me ride the “Riding Simulator” robot horse. I guess it didn’t have overloads | The French horse trailer, Vans Fautras, has a step up floor instead of ramps. Exterior is fiberglass. | Hot tub for dogs, only in California, I love it | First time I’ve seen the monorail move at the Expo | Horse trailer rental, when you only use a trailer a few times a year, American Horse Trailer Rentals | | 
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| | Altec FEI World Equestrian Games selling tickets next to my booth | Work4Feeder.com, several devices for saving hay | Moncho Man dwarf miniature rescue mascot | Build-A-Bear sneakers | This bucket with wheels, is a popular item this year | | 
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| | It looks like an engine, but it’s a barbeque | Packing is popular in this part of California | Sneak peek at the 2011 GM diesels I drove Monday towing a Sundowner up a logging road in Maryland. | Featherlite has some big drop down feed doors | FauTras horse trailer from France, introduced in California. | Now Equine Affaire® Equine Affaire in Columbus OH April 8-11, 2010 
The New Logan Coach 
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| | Country Classics | Terri Sharp Equine Affaire V.P. and Tom Hall Blue Ribbon National Sales Manager | Come see me in the Bricker Annex | My neighbors, Blue Ribbon | Platinum products | | 
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| | Mikmar bits | Triple C Carts | Gorgeous sculpture from Esther Benedict | Plenty of activities for the kids | Horse education | | 
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| | Horse races | Dubarry’s water proof riding boots www.dubarry.us | Equipedic saddle pads | Chris Cox, lots of folks from RFD TV | Mark and Debby doing Metal Wax demos on my trailer | | 
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| | The new red Safety Hitch, at 5200 miles and counting | Tilt-Tie, the trailer picket line | Logan Coach’s Wiz Proof floor | Merhow, warm blood straight load with a…. | …sliding divider to roll the carriage in | | 
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|  | | Mini horse slant load conversion for cargo trailers and…. | Mini-Liftwww.miniaturehorselift.com | No it’s not me getting married | Hi ho silver | Craig Cameron | | 
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| | | Metal Wax Demo’s | Got a love Gypsies | Snaking through the Bricker Annex with Safety Hitch | | | | 
Equine Affaire® Equine Affaire in Pomona CA February 4-7, 2010. 
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| | Automated Safety Hitch, I’ve put 2000 miles on in the last two weeks and boy do I have some stories to tell | Side Tracker is always a crowd pleaser. Crank and electric | Cimarron’s new pig, calf, dog carrier for you pickup | Pegasus horse trailer has an elevator to lift your golf cart up to the hay storage on the second floor | | 
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| | Silverlite has the prime real estate with palm trees across from my booth | CPM pink hats gives 5% of sales to Avon’s breast cancer fund | Avid readers of the Trailer Talk forum on HorseTrailerWorld.com, Brianne Good and Diandra Campbell, Equine Dentists | EZHOOKR is a laser bar that lines up your trailer coupler and ball | | 
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| | Miss California High School Rodeo, K’Lynn Jackson | Sherriff’s posse by the dozen | Charles Wilhelm, clinician | Mini’s in breed demonstrations | | | |
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