Rockie Mountain Saddle Club
The Rockie Mountain Saddle Club (RMSC) was established in 2000 and serves as one of the premier riding clubs in Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming.
Located at Stable Foundations in Wellington, CO, RSMC promotes a family-oriented horse show and gymkhana experience to encourage a spirit of fair competition and sportsmanship while developing leadership, initiative, and accountability among its members and contestants.
Our club offers English, Western, and Gymkhana
shows in addition to our end-year Halloween Spooktacular Show.
Our Board Members
Cassi Sanford
Proud to be elected President of Rockie Mountain Saddle Club. She and her husband Wes, own and operate Stable Foundations boarding facility, where the arena that the club operates resides. She is committed to bringing together the riding community in a supportive and encouraging environment. She has 4 children in the club and thrives on watching all of the kids in the club hone their horse skills while making friends!
FORRESTTE BRINKERHOFF
Horses have been in her blood for generations, from her grandparents’ small breeding operations to her own 2 horses now, she’s passing along the horse blood to her daughter. She has a background in training horses that focused on problem horses and starting young ones. She has lent her talents to local rescues to help ensure the horses are adoptable, ridable, and safe. She enjoys watching her daughter’s love of horses grow with each interaction. In addition, she loves competing in different disciplines from cowboy mounted shooting to sorting and team roping.
CLara oyer
She is the Secretary and board member of Rockie Mountain Saddle Club. She spent years working in ranch management at Adventure Unlimited, managing and caring for a working herd of 75 horses. Her summers were spent as a counselor and Program Head at the same ranch, teaching Cattle Working and Polocrosse programs to teens. She graduated in 2021 from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business. Her passion is training, traveling, and competing in the sport of Cowboy Mounted Shooting.
Shannon unverrich
Serving proudly as Treasure for Rockie Mountain Saddle Club, she graduated from Colorado State University in 2017 with a degree in Business Accounting and a degree in Marketing. When not managing the Clubs monies, she’s busy running a 2.5 million dollar paint store in Greely. In her free time, Shannon enjoys taking part of Mounted Archery, Ranch Sorting and Obstacle Courses with her 3 horses.
maile Danilchik
Maile Lindsay is on the Board of Directors for the Rockie Mountain Saddle Club. Currently finishing her Elementary Education with a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD)endorsement licensure and degree at the University of Northern Colorado. She started the Kaiko Equestrian lesson program at Stable Foundations where she teaches riders of all ages and horse experience. Her background is in show jumping and she spent many years showing across the Pacific Northwest. She also enjoys hiking, kayaking, and tackling an endless list of home improvement projects.
mATTHEW BENO
Serving his second term as an at-large board member of the Rockie Mountain Saddle Club, he has enjoyed trail riding since 2000 and has actively pursued more horse-related activities since joining the club and purchasing his daughter a Quarter Horse in 2017. He is involved with RJT Hope for Hooves - a local equine rescue and loves to travel with his wife and daughter.
Martie Harrison-Dumm
Martie Harrison-Dumm is currently serving on the Board of Directors. Her family background is farming in Nebraska, but because her father was in the military, she couldn’t live the farm lifestyle or work on the farm. The bright side, however, is that she has seen so many parts of the country! She settled down in Wyoming (because her dad finally retired in Cheyenne) and attended the University of Wyoming. After starting a family in northern Colorado, she also attended Colorado State University. Her specialty is tax and accounting, but her love has always been large animals and livestock. Her husband is a large animal vet, and specializes in black angus. She’s currently a co-leader of a local 4H club, been involved with horse riding for many years, and now shows at local saddle clubs. Her kids are older now, but they were active in the horse project for the Weld County Fair. She enjoys the community atmosphere at Rockie Mountain Saddle Club and is excited to support this organization.
mAry margaret ciccone
Mary Margaret retired from a 26-year career as a Registered Nurse and moved to Colorado with her family in 2017. She has been able to fill the family farm with critters of all kinds, having a special soft spot for broken equids with emotional baggage. She is entering her second term on the Rockie Mountain Saddle Club board and her 10th year as a horse show mom with experiences in multiple saddle clubs, 4H, AQHA, APHA, NRHA, and COWN shows. Mary Margaret loves to help others navigate horse shows as best as she can and welcomes any questions.
anna moore
Anna Moore is serving as a general board member for the Rockie Mountain Saddle Club. She recently graduated with a bachelor of science degree from Colorado State University, majoring in psychology. Anna grew up doing gymkhanas and showing Western but recently started riding English. She also has spent several summers volunteering at a local ranch helping with programs for at-risk youth and the rehabilitation of rescue horses.
Board Terms
Our board members serve terms and are voted in, by you the member. They each serve limited terms and at the end of their term are either re-elected ( with the exception of the President, who’s limited to a 4-year term). We want to make sure that things remain fair on our board while allowing others the opportunity to serve on the board to have a profound impact on our local riding community.
Monies! 💰
Where do donations go?
Because it’s your club and without your membership and participation, we feel that you ought to know where your monies are spent. We are also open to feedback and suggestions!
Grounds Upkeep (it takes a lot to keep the area in tip-top shape as well as the facility maintenance)
Prizes! We want to provide the members/participants with fun prizes that you are proud to have earned!!
End of Year Awards - we know you work hard all year on leveling up and earning points for this, so we want to make sure it’s special!
Without your support this club wouldn’t exist and we wouldn’t have the opportunity to serve the community and our lovely horse tribe.