About Us :: The Hagan Family & Ranches

Thomas & Felicity

Shawne & Jocelyn

The Hagan Family

Thomas

Harley Mae

Erin, Harley Mae & Alistair

Shawne

Alistair

Erin

Thomas

Erin

Alistair

Ranch Branding

On the Black Horses

Welcome to the 4th Annual Hagan Performance and Ranch Horse Sale.
Thank-you to everyone who has made the past three sales such a success!

The Hagan family consists of three families united and proud to produce this high quality horse sale. Shawne and Jocelyn are the proud parents of four Alistair, Amanda, Thomas and Bronwen and of course grandparents to one; Harley-Mae. Both love being grandparents and spend a lot of time with Harley as she loves going Nan Nan and Papa’s house. Locating themselves 14 miles southwest of Virden, Shawne and Jocelyn have been involved in every aspect of ranching; from the purebred Charolais business to the PMU industry, to the current cow/calf/yearling operation and are now get ready to slow down. Well somewhat anyway, Shawne would like to start spending less time feeding cows and more time roping them! Shawne enjoys bringing along his young horses, going to brandings, a good sit down in the bunk house and let’s not forget hunting. Shawne also has a great eye for horses and always enjoys heading out on a good horse buying trip to pick out that next good one. Jocelyn is as busy as ever running about, between her alter ego as “Nan Nan”, her role as Virden rodeo President, her rental properties, bouncing back and fourth between the two Garbage day clothing locations (Virden & Clear Lake) and a visit from at least one of her six sisters. These two think they liked to slow down but we don’t see them joining the lawn bowling league any time soon.   

Alistair, the oldest of the Hagan siblings and wife Erin both celebrated their 30th birthday this year and neither one can believe that Harley-Mae is already two years old. Everyone in the family thinks it’s possible that she is the cutest little girl in the world. The joke around the ranch is that Harley’s bred to talk both top and bottom and thats what she does as she entertains everyone she meets whether she’s in the roping arena or at the vet clinic with the stallion. Alistair & Erin had a very busy first breeding season with Merridoc and anxiously await their first foal crop next spring. Alistair, Erin and Harley-Mae have their own ranch just down the road with the small mare band, 230 Angus/Hereford cows and grass all their yearlings as well. They both love ranching and would love to expand; they are always looking to balance cowboy tradition with modern grazing practices. Alistair stays busy spring and fall with the tip table traveling all over trimming 5000 mare/year leaving the two girls at home to run the ranch on their own. Alistair and Erin have enjoyed another good rodeo season with a few changes, Erin’s running a different mare and Alistair’s entering the team roping and both look to go back to the CCA & MRCA finals again this fall. Both are very committed to the rodeo and ranching lifestyle and donate all of their spare time to the MRCA, the Wheat City Stampede as well as hosting the Black Baldy Classic. Whether its working the auction mart, alley sorting cattle, round penning colts, or just pulling Harley on her toboggan these two feel very strongly that the best way to make quality, good minded horses is to simply use them. This is the same program all of Erin’s barrel horses are under and she feels that this is the best way to get into their mind. Both are committed to broadening their horizons and surrounding themselves with knowledgeable people and were fortunate enough this year to take clinics with both Walt Woodard and Deana Kirkpatrick respectively. 

All the horses on offer have been ridden extensively and have taken on the job we feel fits them the best. We pride ourselves in “OUR” horses being what we say they are; if that’s quiet or fast or whether they are ranch horses, started team roping horses or rodeo ready horses. We ride a lot of horses as a family and not every one of the horses makes the sale, we cull very hard and do our best only to sell horses that we feel will truly have a future. We have done our best to prepare these horses mentally to move into any other future discipline. So please check out the testimonies’s or call us if you see anything that you like and we will do our best to find a horse that fits you as an individual.

Thanks for your interest!