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The 1919 Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth, Texas marked a milestone as the first recorded cutting horse exhibition. Cutting was established as a competitive annual event the following year. [7] In 1946, the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) was founded by a group of 13 cutting horse owners who were attending the ...
A cutting horse is said to possess an innate ability to anticipate or read a cow's intended moves; an ability commonly referred to as having cow sense or cow smarts. [2] Competitive cutting horses are well-trained and conditioned athletes with skills honed to constrain the movement of a cow and prevent it from returning to the herd.
A cutting horse working a cow Montana cowboys and their horses, circa 1910 A stock horse is a horse of a type that is well suited for working with livestock, particularly cattle . [ 1 ] The related cow pony or cow horse is a historic phrase, still used colloquially today, referring to a particularly small agile cattle-herding horse; [ 2 ] the ...
Campdrafting is a unique Australian sport involving a horse and rider working cattle. The riding style is Australian stock, somewhat akin to American Western riding and the event is similar to the American stock horse events such as cutting, working cow horse, team penning, and ranch sorting.
Al Dunning (born March 5, 1950) is an American horse trainer specializing in western performance horses. [1] He has trained multiple world champions in reining, [1] cutting, [1] working cow horse, halter, and all-around. His most famous horse was Expensive Hobby. [2] He was inducted into the Arizona Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame in ...
National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Rider Hall of Fame was created and perpetuated to honor outstanding riders who have demonstrated their ability to exhibit the athletic prowess and inherent cow sense of the cutting horses they have shown competitively in NCHA sponsored or approved contests.
Thus, the spare horses must be kept close to the cattle herd and moved along with the cattle so as to be available to riders as needed. The horses graze whenever possible along the way and at night to obtain adequate forage. The herd of spare horses was given the name remuda. The remuda would be kept separately from the cattle herd for a number ...
Kay Floyd and Freckles Madera at the Harris Ranch cutting in 1988.. Kay Floyd (1948 – August 17, 2015) was an American horse breeder who was the first woman ever to win two NCHA Futurity championships, albeit in the Non-Pro division (1976 and 1987).