Cathy's Custom Parties & Pony Rides

11/19/2025

It just gets harder and harder every day!! 🍁 🍂

11/19/2025

Not really…Bob makes the best cranberries from scratch!!

11/19/2025

11/18/2025

It’s that time of year!!
Time to find Trouble kitty!🐈‍⬛

11/17/2025

This is an Original photo of Alice Sisty-cowgirl bronc and bull rider and double Roman horse rider 1906-1953.
Alice Sisty grew up in a well to do New Jersey home, not far from a racetrack owned by her grandfather.
Alice Sisty once rode a horse from Reno to her New Jersey home. On her trek of 3,000 miles, she sometimes slept outdoors in isolated locations. After the national publicity of her ride, she joined Miller’s 101 Ranch Wild West Show. Later, she also rode bulls and broncs and performed trick riding at rodeos.
After months of training, in 1936 she became the first woman in rodeo history to perform 2-horse Roman riding jumps. For over 15 years, she was one of the top female rodeo stars and won numerous bronc ridings as well as all-around cowgirl titles.
The car she jumped was her own, one of only 205 model 810/812 convertibles made by Auburn Automobile Company during 1936-37. Front-wheel drive and retractable headlights were among its features.
She was married FOUR times! At age 17 in 1923, Alice Sisty eloped with Allen Zook, a Harvard graduate, after knowing him only one week. In 1928, she obtained her divorce in Reno, probably because no state had more lax requirements for divorce than Nevada.
In 1929, Alice Sisty married Earl Sutton Jr., a rodeo contestant. In 1932, she married rodeo star and western showman Milt Hinkle, who was 25 years older, on horseback in an arena. In 1942, she married her fourth husband, Henning Sommer, who was nine years younger than her. She died in 1953 at age 47 after an extensive illness.