Barrel Racing

• Softening Exercise for Your Speed Horse

  Team Horse & Rider member Sherry Cervi offers this simple exercise to help you teach your barrel-racing or speed-event horse to yield to the bit.

Cattle Events

• Getting Started in Cutting

  Al Dunning gives a Horse & Rider magazine reader the ins and outs on what it takes to get into the sport of cutting--and how to do it without breaking the bank.

Halter

• Time Your Cues for a Perfect Showmanship Stop

  How to master your stopping cues to stay in-sync with your horse, and up your chances of a dynamite showmanship pattern. By Andrea Simons with Alana Harrison for Horse & Rider magazine.

Pattern Events

• Heels-Down Tips from Karen Banister

  Polish your classical horsemanship position with heels-down pointers from pro Karen Banister. From the editors of Horse & Rider magazine.

Reining

• Reining Debuts at Rolex FEI World Cup Finals

  Celebrity reining got its moment in the spotlight at the 2009 World Cup Finals in Las Vegas.

Rodeo

• All-Around Cowboy

  Trevor Brazile defends his title during the 2003 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo this week in Las Vegas. Brazile is the first cowboy ever to qualify for the NFR in four events.

Western Pleasure

• How to Beat Show Nerves

  Nervousness hindering your performance? World-champion pro and coach Carol Metcalf helps you kick those horse show jitters and nerves to the curb. From the editors of Horse & Rider magazine. By Carol Metcalf with Alana Harrison