Western Horse Training

Get a taste for this buzzworthy sport by trying out a Western dressage test right here.

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?Your seat is your greatest aid in communicating with your horse,? says two-time Road to the Horse Champion and popular clinician Chris Cox of Mineral Wells, Texas. ?Using your seat effectively can keep you from overusing your reins.

Can horse folk find like-minded partners through online services? Here are five couples that did.

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Check out our click 'n buy slide show of Tipperary Equestrian and Troxel Helmets styles.

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The 1 + 1 Ranch welcomes guests, but only if they can cowboy up.

Jack Brainard has spent his life with horses. Instrumental in founding the NRHA, Brainard was inducted into the Reining Horse Hall of Fame in 2010.

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Check out a video of a basic Western Dressage test.

Michelle Rezzonico is the first female team roper to win the World Series of Team Roping Finale in Las Vegas' South Point Equestrian Center.

Heeler BJ Campbell talks about how to help your heel horse stop better to rope two feet in our September issue of Spin To Win Rodeo.

After winning second place at the PRCA Frontier Days Rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyo, Fred Whitfield has more to celebrate. Fred Whitfield, an eight-time world champion, became the third cowboy in PRCA history to cross the $3 million mark for career earnings.

Find out what top cowgirls back their tough barrel racing mounts into the roping box, too.

The U.S.-Mexico border is shut down to horned cattle, and this has the leaders of the roping community crying foul.

Team roping star Ryan Motes knows how to cut it in the roping pen and on the rodeo road.

Trevor Brazile is on pace to break his single-season earnings record, set last year. He leads his nearest challenger, Shane Proctor, by more than $70,000.

Pro rodeo vet Frank Santos explains what abscesses are an how to prevent them.

Whether or not to have a mare as a roping or performance horse is a controversial topic. Learn more from this expert rodeo vet on the ins and outs of owning mares.

Dallying is an art that if taken for granted could cost you a lot ? from blown paychecks to lost fingers.

Our June 2011 issue features a how-to by David Key on keeping your steer in stride on the corner.