![]() ![]() At age 10 her horse Creamer was named Grand Champion Gelding at the Union County Fair. As a member of 4-H, her projects included steers and horses. ![]() Charmayne learned to ride bareback on an old cowpony called Redbug, and was always trying to keep up with her older sisters who had begun running barrels. Attending schools in Clayton, she was an honor roll student and excelled in art, basketball and track, but was always anxious to get home from school to ride. She took ballet and piano lessons, but her favorite activity was riding. Charmayne grew up at her dad’s feedlot in Clayton. Her grandmother was a World War I nurse who returned home and broke horses on the family’s dude ranch. Her mother was a rodeo queen who also barrel raced and team roped. Her great-grandfather was a Choctaw Indian Light Horseman. Her grandfather was a cowman and steer roper. Her dad, who always had an eye for good horses, worked as a feedlot cowboy before becoming an owner and operator of cattle feeding, ranching and farming interests in Clayton, New Mexico. CHARMAYNE’S BEGINNING Charmayne came by her horsemanship talents naturally. ![]()
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