Mz Simply Flashy,ROM Barrels, ROM Stake Race, Honor Roll Open Junior Barrels, NBHA Qualifier, Dixie Nationals winner 2005, Top Ten APHA Worlds.  Owned by Headley's, Ms. (Flashy BugsxSimply Zippy AQHA) Congratulations on your outstanding accomplishments in 2006 and 2007!

Funny Gunny, Futurity and Derby competitor, owned and trained by D'Ann Gehlsen, SD(Western Bugsx GunnyAQHA)

Lucky Alamitos Bug, owned by Teresa Wolff,  Mt. continued her winning ways in 2007.  Congratulations on a great season! (Western Bugs x Leiges Missy AQHA)

Southwestern Deco, 3rd. in the Central States Division and 22nd in the Nation in his first year of dressage competition. Owned by Jane Quandt, MN and trained by Underhill Farms. (Western Bugs x Antiope JC)

Andrew and Western Sass will finish their very successful high school team roping career in 2008 and will be attending University of Tennessee, Martin, Tennessee in the fall where they'll be on the rodeo team! Congratulations Andrew and Western Sass.  We're looking forward to the next four years! (Western Bugs x Dee Gees Maid QH)

Located on the rolling plains of southwestern North Dakota, Flying O Ranch is the home of a breeding program that focuses on trainability, athletic ability, and speed while utilizing the bloodlines of today's exceptional Paints, Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds. It's a ranch that has been in our family for three generations....and the horses have always had an important part in the composition of that ranch.

Selected for their outstanding pedigrees, conformation, performance records, and disposition, the stallions compliment our great broodmare band. Some of the bloodlines represented are Dash for Cash, Splash Bac, Shawne Bug, Indians Image, Treasured Too, Special Task, Easy Jet, Bullys On Fire, Shoot Yeah, Strawflyin Buds,  Red Eye Special, Star Look, Bridlewood, Western Native, Mr. Premium Smoke and many more World Champions and producers of Champions.

Flying O Ranch horses are winning competitors locally, regionally, and nationally in barrel racing, team roping, calf roping, and even dressage! The proof is in the babies, and we're as pleased as we can be with their accomplishments.

Browse the site, get in touch with us.....we'd love to talk to you about horses.

Check out our 2008 foals page!  We have a great selection of super colts!

Thanks to everyone that helped to make 2007 a great year.  We wish you the best with your Flying O Ranch horses in 2008.

Bonnie and Paul

Email: orvedahl@westriv.com

News!  News!  News!

Our 2008 foal crop will include babies by our recently purchased buckskin stallion, Basic Black Spruce AQHA,  who is a son of Mr. Basic Black!  We expect that this exceptionally kind and good minded family will cross very well with our speed bred mares.  Info about his outstanding family follows:

This is only a part of what's new and exciting here on the ranch.  Check in often for updates on the horses in competition in 2008.  They're going places! 

Western Sass and Bad Bugs aka Rugby will be going to college (with Andrew) at the University of Tennessee, Martin, Tn.!  Thanks, Stephenson's,  for purchasing, training, and competing on Western Sass and Bad Bugs. 

Hey Bugs and Simply Zippin will both barrel race in 2008, and Handsome Lark starts his barrel training. Thank you Quinley's and Thompson's!! New pictures and updates will be added regularly.

More Exciting News:

Call Her Lady Bud, the first foal out of one of our mares, Buds Hi Flyin Lady AQHA, finished 3rd in the 1-D at the Lance Graves Pro Classic Sale Futurity.  A half sib, The Straw Bug, by our ROM stallion Flashy Bugs, can be seen on the 2007 foals page.