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Barrel Racing

Stifle Injuries in Team Roping Horses

The stifle joint, which is analogous to our knee joint, is a complex and challenging joint to evaluate. | MORE

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  • Lindsay Sears and Martha

    In the April issue, Lindsay Sears shared about her great barrel racing mare's, Martha, comeback after injury. Check out the video below to see the pair in action! | MORE

  • College Rodeo Partners with Ground Hog Arena Tool for CNFR

    The National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association announced Friday a new partnership with The Ground Hog Arena Tool and Lucas Metal Works, Inc. to provide the best dirt possible at the 2012 College National Finals Rodeo. | MORE

Cattle Events

Clinton Anderson: The Rollback

In the May 2012 issue, Clinton Anderson taught you how to use the fence to teach your horse the rollback. Watch Clinton perform a rollback on the fence | MORE

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  • College Rodeo Partners with Ground Hog Arena Tool for CNFR

    The National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association announced Friday a new partnership with The Ground Hog Arena Tool and Lucas Metal Works, Inc. to provide the best dirt possible at the 2012 College National Finals Rodeo. | MORE

  • Breaking In Roping Steers

    Roping steers are a significant investment, so it makes sense to take the time to break them in right. How you break roping steers in is also quite relevant to their usefulness and longevity. Habits are formed early in roping steers, and you want to avoid steers getting away and forming bad habits from the start. | MORE

Halter

Train Your Horse for Showmanship

Showmanship at halter, one of the most popular events at all levels of Western showing, tests a handler’s ability to fit and show a horse in halter competition. | MORE

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Pattern Events

Clinton Anderson: The Rollback

In the May 2012 issue, Clinton Anderson taught you how to use the fence to teach your horse the rollback. Watch Clinton perform a rollback on the fence | MORE

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  • We’d Love to Own: Teddy Terrific

    Barn name: Teddy. Particulars: 1989 dark bay Quarter Horse gelding sired by Money I Hope out of Princess Rancher by King Rancher. Owned and trained by: Carl Ford | MORE

  • Basic Body Control of Your Horse

    A circle loses shape. A lead is blown. A flying change gets halfway done—or not at all. The common culprit in all these scenarios? Lack of body control, | MORE

Reining

Have You Tried: Entry-Level Reining

The program: The National Reining Horse Association’s new “starter levels” of competition, which debuted in 2010, welcome riders of all backgrounds and abilities to the sport of reining. | MORE

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  • Clinton Anderson: The Rollback

    In the May 2012 issue, Clinton Anderson taught you how to use the fence to teach your horse the rollback. Watch Clinton perform a rollback on the fence | MORE

  • A Show Jumper Goes Reining: Part II

    Read Philip's account of his first days at the Cowboy Capital Classic here. While I have a lot of material to cover concerning the last two days of | MORE

Rodeo

Update on Turtle Powell’s “Vegas” and Laminitis

This column is an update on Vegas, courtesy of Turtle and Vegas’ farrier, Blaine Chapman, with some general comments along the way on laminitis in horses, aka “founder.” | MORE

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Western Pleasure

Close Up: Bad-Boy John Hoyt

We’re going to take you behind the stories to find the real John Hoyt—the lifelong horseman, legendary competitor, and ongoing inspiration to countless others. Featured as one of H&R’s 50 Great Riders in April 2011, the stories about this horseman are legion. Here’s his true tale. | MORE

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