Why Worry Ranch & Annie Reynolds
The history behind one of the most successful programs in cowhorse industry

It’s been said that the three ingredients for happiness are - meaningful work, a conscience, and people to love. The work we choose, when aligned with the gifts we’re born with, feels like a calling, a vocation, and a platform for personal growth. The way we’re meant to experience life.

Annie Reynolds - fifty, funny, and fit – long strided, with measured speech, and confident eye contact, will tell you she’s driven. “I think at one time I was really competitive and it was really important for me to win,” she says thoughtfully.

“But the whole process of competing really works on you mentally and there’s a learning process here – to really define why you’re here, what it means, and what it’s going to mean tomorrow. I do it for the learning, to better my horsemanship and improve my performance. Winning is icing on the cake.”

Annie & Nate at a Luau party

Annie’s intensity is legendary. “She’ll fight to the bitter end,” says renowned horse trainer Todd Bergen. “Annie will never quit at the horse shows. But at the same time, she’s always there to help everybody else. She’s the voice you want to have at the back gate giving you some good advice.”

And work, if you love it, is joyful. “This reined cow horse stuff is such fun to do,” muses Annie, “and the people who love it, do it with so much passion and commitment that they spend all their time eating and breathing and living it, and if you’re not willing to do that, it’s going to be hard to compete with those who are. That makes it difficult for me to compete, but I love my life, I love my kids, and my husband.”

Wilder & Hollister

Annie and her husband Nate Jones have two sons, thirteen-year-old Hollister and nine-year-old Wilder.

Nate is an organic farmer, raising everything from alfalfa to zucchini, Chardonnay grapes to eggplant. With the dedication Nate brings to his farming operations he understands Annie’s strong commitment to her horses.

Hollister and Wilder, robust boys with full social and sports calendars, are budding horsemen too. They’re competing in Junior Rodeo’s, attesting to the adage, “The apple falls close to the tree.”

You can find their equestrian grandmother, Joyce Pearson, cheering from their community bleachers or in national stadium seats supporting Annie.

Joyce, like her father before her, always had horses in her life. “Dad always loved horses, if that can be inherited, that’s probably where my love of horses came from.”