Tie down roping

The time to beat was 7.4 seconds. Six cowboys had preceded Fred Whitfield in this early heat of the calf-roping event at the Calgary Stampede, a 10-day extravag…

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Every horse has a personality. Anyone who’s spent some time in the saddle knows as much. But a good calf horse? Usually they’re all business. Obviously, a tie-down roping run requires an advanced level training and discipline on the part of the horse: 1. Begin as still as a statue while a calf—the object of […]

An integral part of the horse's hackamore, the mecate tie rope served a historic function for vaqueros that lives on in today's horsemanship.

What man hasn’t imagined what it would be like to be a cowboy on the open range? And when you think about being a cowboy, you probably imagine yourself swinging a lasso above your head to round up wayward dogies The lasso, or lariat, that we know today originated with Mexican vaqueros back in the […]