A Champion Cutter in Her Eighties

Oil on Barnwood
22″ x 25″
$1300
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Kramer Horse Ranch
Bobby Brooks Kraemer grew up on a ranch, the daughter of the Prairie County sheriff. In 1943 she married Bud Kramer while he was in the Army. Upon his return they built one of the greatest horse ranches in the nation. Bobby spent most of her life taming wild horses, riding competitively, breeding world class champion horses, and instructing and encouraging many to ride.

Failed homesteaders in the 30’s released their horses into the wild when they moved on. The new owners of the land sold these wild horses, which were consuming the grasses needed by their cattle, to Bud and Bobby. They captured 10,000 head of wild horses each year, breaking them, and selling them as riding or draft horses. Under their Hanging A Diamond brand they developed award-winning quarter and cutting horses. In 1964 Bobby received her pilot’s license so she could round up wild horses more easily, and she then competed in and won air races. In 1968, Gary Crowder joined them, and they started the Kramer Crowder Horse Ranch outside of Billings.

Her lifetime accomplishments are phenomenal. When she was 76 Bobby was one of two women among 44 drovers to ride the Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive. She has won countless awards for the horses she raised and trained including AQHA Grand Championships; Register of Merits; AQHA Champions; MQHA Hi-Point, and NCHA Certificates of Ability; Carbon Acres Challenge Trophy; AQHA All-Around Championships, including six won when she was 81 years old. She was a charter member of the Billings Saddle Club, a lifetime member of the American Quarter Horse Association, the Montana Quarter Horse Association, and Montana Cutting horse Association. The highest award was her induction into the “National Cowgirl Hall of Fame” in 2000.