Take a position close to the gate to give your horse the chance to take hold of the cow.
Your location will help you “train” your cow in the fence work.
By AQHA Professional Horseman Bozo Rogers with Larri Jo Starkey
In the working cow horse, strategy can make the difference between handling your cow efficiently and letting her run down the rail without you. Everything starts with a little mental exercise. If you can think like the cow, you can be ready to handle whatever she throws your way.
Opening Gambit
The point of boxing is to teach the cow to honor your horse. To do that, you need to “train” the cow to move away from your horse when you’re in her eye.
If you are halfway down the pen when you call for the cow, you give the cow time to come to you, and a bad cow will run by you.
I like to sit about 50 feet from the end of the arena so that when the cow steps into the arena, the first thing she sees is me moving toward her. When she sees me, she’ll veer, forcing her to honor the horse before she does anything else.
Use Bryan Neubert's colt-starting techniques to get your ranch colt ready for the range.
Cowboy, clinician and horseman Bryan Neubert shares his insight into starting ranch colts.
By Bryan Neubert with Jim Bret Campbell in The American Quarter Horse Journal
Mount Up
Once the horse has softened and accepted the lessons from Part 1, he’s ready for me to prepare him to carry a rider. Remember to stay soft and quiet as you get on. I’ll slowly introduce my weight in the stirrup and just let him get used to the feel before I proceed. (See the photo gallery.) I’m also ready to step back down, draw his head toward me and move his hindquarters away from me to prevent him from pulling away or kicking me. After he accepts my weight in one stirrup, I lean over and rub him on the shoulder and hip on the right side. I might also move the fender of the offside stirrup a little to get him used to the movement. When he’s handling this well, I step into the saddle, remembering to stay soft and quiet.
Once I’m there, I don’t worry about trying to guide him much. I’ll let him adjust to the extra weight. I have a Cheyenne roll on the back of my saddle, and I’ll hold on to that in case he bucks. They almost never do if they are prepared up to this point.
Bo Winslow serves some Dutch-oven peach cobbler to a 2009 QuarterFest participant.
At QuarterFest 2010, clinician Bo Winslow explains everything you need to know for a back-country horseback camping trip.
Bo Winslow, a clinic instructor with the Certified Horsemanship Association, will be featured April 30 at QuarterFest: A Celebration of the American Quarter Horse at the Tennessee Miller Coliseum in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Bo will provide information and advice for horsemen preparing for a backcountry camping trip.
His clinics on April 30 include:
Preparing for the Trip: the rules and regulations of the camping/packing area you are visiting.
Choosing the Right Horse: discuss the conformation you are looking for in your pack and riding animals.
Securing Horses at the Campsite: practicing secure knots, learning to tie a picket line that will secure several horses overnight and many other ways to secure horses.
Packing Your Horse: learn and practice using the double-diamond hitch and the box hitch, two very basic hitches used by many packers in the industry.
Choosing Your Campsite: learn what to look for in a campsite, low-impact guidelines, building a fire in tough conditions, and setting up and taking down camp with the least amount of impact.
Dutch-Oven Cooking: learn to prepare biscuits and cobbler using a Dutch oven.
The American Quarter Horse Journal, February 24, 2010 – Oklahoma City will host the 2010 Youth World Cup July 3-11, and the American Quarter Horse Association is calling on volunteers – two-legged and four-legged – to make the event a success.
What began as a competition between Australian and U.S. youths more than two decades ago has evolved to include kids from a number of countries – 17 countries are expected for the 2010 Youth World Cup.
Each Youth World Cup team consists of five American Quarter Horse Youth Association members plus a coach. The youth take part in eight days of educational seminars, riding and showmanship clinics, leadership training and competition. Alternate members of the teams attend the educational and leadership seminars. Each team draws a pool of six volunteered horses to use throughout the two-day competition. Each horse is ridden at least once in each class. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=10364
The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal, February 11, 2010 – The super-consistent Slinkys Fortune, who has finished in the top two in each of his 13 starts, heads a full field of eight Louisiana-bred distance specialists over 870 yards in the $40,000 Magnolia Stakes on Saturday afternoon at Louisiana Downs.
The Henry Padgett-owned and -trained Slinkys Fortune (Dashs Slinky-Chasing A Fortune by Six Fortunes) did not begin his racing career until 2008 as a 4-year-old, but he has made up for lost time by earning $152,765 while never finishing below second place.
Slinkys Fortune returned after a three-month rest in the 870-yard Marathon Stakes on January 23 at Louisiana Downs. He made an impressive move going around his rivals to win by 2 lengths as the 13-10 favorite. That victory came against open company, so facing state-breds in the Magnolia Stakes may be a class drop for the impressive gelding. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=10329
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