This is Part II of a two part article about cutting horse herdwork best practices.

In Part I, I talked about how you can help yourself make a clean, pretty, flowing cut when you cut a cow that’s near the end of … and on the outside of cattle as they roll around you.

When the cow you cut is chosen randomly, it’s called “shape”. When you arrange for a pre-determined cow to be in a good spot to make a credit earning cut in the middle of the arena, there’s no special name for it. You are simply cutting a specific cow.

Click here to read on…

Eight Empowering Ways To Think About Competition

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t show horses.

My parents had around 400 horses. Showing was a big part of our family business. I, along with my four siblings, exhibited horses to market them. Dad had high expectations for our success in the show arena.

Throughout my lifetime of show ring experience, I have often thought about what competition means to me. I’ve never stopped studying exactly what makes high performers excel above the rest.

Click here to read on…