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Glen & Nora French 1935 at Ono Ranch

Glen and Nora, with few exceptions, showed their horses themselves with the help of their children and grand children. Evelyn showed halter mares for Glen and Nora including the 1957 dun mare, Sun Arrow. Evelyn showed Sun Arrow for a 2nd place out of eighty 2 year old fillies at the 1959 Denver Stock Show. Sun Arrow went on to earn 20 halter points and produce 1966 AQHA Champion, Picos Arrow by Poco Pico and 1966 Superior Halter and 1967 AQHA Champion, Matt Sun by Eternal Sun. Over the years many of the grand children showed ONO weanling foals in futurities and weanling foal classes then lead colts through the sale ring. Nora insisted that many of the weanling colts be shown prior to the annual fall production sales. The ONO ranches’ “ Best In The West “ production sales were held yearly in September from 1960 until 1978. Over the years they invited friends to be guest consigners in their sales including Albert Lopez, Tommy Maupin, Don Stearns, Tony Sattler, Lloyde Rypkema, Johnny Johnson, Jack Smeek, Carol Page, Zoder Golliher and many others.







Glen and Nora both kept very active with their horses well into their 80’s. Their daughter Lucille is keeping with tradition, at the age of 82, has qualified her two year old buckskin gelding, Prime Time Design, for the 2005 Buckskin world show in snaffle bit futurity, lunge line and halter.

  

Her mare Crystal Bell Cash was Buckskin World Champion
Snaffle Futurity Champion in 1997 and 4th
Buckskin World Western Pleasure 2001.



Her halter mare Mindys First Lady was Buckskin World Champion Halter Mares 2004 4th place. Lucille’s children Jacquie, Jim, and Jeff Schneider and John and Jo Mae Hegre showed ONO Horses
in youth classes and 4-H.



John showed and handled Lucilles’s
stallion, Harlans Perfection, in the late 1970’s.
Jim and his wife Pat currently show horses.



Pat was New Mexico High Point Amateur and Buckskin World Champion 2004 . Jim was 2004 New Mexico Reserve Amateur
and All Around Novice.



He was also Buckskin World top five 2004.

Evelyn’s daughters Cheri and Vicki Parker showed point earner
De De Whiz, out of ONO mare Pokey Peg. In the 1965 and 1966 Vicki was South Dakota College Rodeo Association barrel racing high point and in 1967 was Runner Up Miss Rodeo South Dakota. Prairie Wolf, Evelyn’s point earning gelding out of ONO mare
Patsy Wolf, took Cheri to the High School Rodeo National Finals where they placed 12th out of 112 cutters. Evelyn bred, owned and raced Dial Collect, foaled in 1963, by 1952 World Champion race horse Johnny Dial. Dial Collect was 1965 and 1966 South Dakota Bred Derby winner and in 1965 earned a racing ROM. Evelyn also owned and raced Bulla Bull with 2 wins, 1 second
and 2 thirds out 6 starts in 1965. Cheri currently raises
Paint horses and Vicki ranches with her husband
Neil Birkeland near Dupree, South Dakota.

Glen Jr’s children Kathy, Patti, Mark and Mike French showed in youth or 4-H with their ONO Horses as did Ginnie’s children Shelly, Candy, Glen and Scott Cudmore.



Scott Cudmore showed his point earning gelding French Gin a son of Primrose Reed a Texas Dan Fe daughter in youth and open classes. He also showed point earner



Sabre Panda by French Sabre.

   

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