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Ranch sorting is a western-style equestrian sport that evolved from the common ranch work of separating cattle into pens for branding, doctoring, or transport. Ranch Sorting is an event that pits a team of two riders on horseback against the clock.
The riders must cut out the three head that have been nominated, take them to the opposite end of the arena, pen them and call for time. [1] Teamwork is the key with all three riders working in harmony to cut out the correct cattle and drive them to the pen while keeping the rest of the herd (sometimes called trash or dirty cattle) back. [1]
Track and field hurdles A traditional wattle hurdle A horse free-jumping a steeplechase-type hurdle A mobile cattle pen made using steel hurdles; attached to a cattle crush in foreground Hurdles being used to cross the Mississippi River. Ancient site of the "ford of hurdles", Dublin
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Cutting dates back to a time when ranchers in the American West hired cowboys to work herds of cattle out on the open range. Certain horses specialized in sorting and separating individual cattle from the herd when needed. [1] Cutting moved from the open range to modern arena competition, often held indoors. Some sanctioned events at the ...
A pen for cattle may also be called a corral, a term borrowed from the Spanish language. Groups of pens that are part of a larger complex may be called a stockyard , where a series of pens hold a large number of animals, or a feedlot , which is a type of stockyard used to confine animals that are being fattened.
The first livestock exchange was located in a farmhouse on the site. The Union Stock Yards originally covered over 260 acres (1.1 km 2) of land, with pens covering nearly 200 acres (0.8 km 2). [7] They were located between South 36th Street on the west to South 27th Street on the east; L Street on the north to Q Street on the south.
Business Insider points out that between 2000 and 2010, there were more than 10,000 reported cases of people swallowed parts of pens or pencils. Show comments Advertisement