Dr. Molly Bellefeuille of Northern StarEquine Speaking with CHTO’s DuncanSteele-Park. Ever had a horse that looked strangely unbalanced, had an abnormal gait or a lameness that you couldn’t put your finger on? It’s possible that horse is suffering from Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis or better known as EPM. It’s a disease that’s probably
Miles and wife Cassie Miles DeWitt is blessed to have a ranching background. During school he started colts and spent time on the rodeo circuit, roping, riding cow horses, and barrel horses and even shoeing. At one point he shod all of the horses he had in training but now he limits
Guy Robertson working a cow. When you think of horses in England, it’s generally the sport of kings (thoroughbred racing) or the aristocracy in their red jackets hunting foxes on horseback over the rolling green hillsides that comes to mind. But did you know, there is a small but growing interest in
Clay Damuth has a ranching background but he has always had an interest in cow horses. He was advised to go work for trainers to learn the trade. He first went to work for a cueing horse trainer at 20 years of age and then branched out to cow horse trainers with a foundation
Total Earnings: $268,631 Ben Baldus has always wanted to be a cowboy for as long as he can remember. At 17 he went to Pennsylvania and worked for Christian Evangelist, Lew Sterrett, who used horses to preach. Sterrett gave Baldus a foundation. Then, at 20 years old, Baldus moved to Texas to work for
NRCHA Executive Director, Anna Morrison When Anna Morrison stepped into the position of executive director of the National Reined Cow Horse Association in December last year, she felt she was taking a leap of faith in the middle of COVID-19 uncertainty. But Morrison soon discovered the NRCHA had done an incredible job
Sandy and MH Boon In My BloodPhoto by Fletch Sandy Jirkovsky has spent most of her training career working mainly with Appaloosas but has had Paints and Quarter Horses come through her barn. Her husband started showing in the cow horse world in the Appaloosa circuit and she thought it looked like
Total Earnings: $758,980 Shawn Hays worked for JD Yates, a team roper, where he met his wife Tammy. She was interested in reined cow horses and introduced Hays to the sport. Everyone started sending him cow horses after Tammy was doing so well in the non-pro. Hays then got more involved in the cow
Accomplished reined cow horse trainer and rider Phillips Ralls from California is one of Reined Cow Horse Training Online's featured trainers. He encourages everyone involved in the sport to learn from the best in the business by watching our experts reveals their training and showing secrets. Become a member and try RCHTO
With a degree in Biosystems Engineering from Clemson University, an old remote control car and four years of tweaking, Billy Weir developed the RealCow Training System, which does everything but moo and poop! Like all good inventions, Realcow was born out of necessity. A cutting horse trainer based in South Carolina,
The SRCHA Pre-Futurity has wrapped up and trainers and owners are looking towards the National Stock Horse Association show in Las Vegas, NV. Results from the Open Pre Futurity: Open Futurity: Winning the open futurity, we have Jay McLaughlin and Bush Whacked, marking a 440.00, owned by Jay And/Or Wendy earning $15000.00 With a
Based in Weatherford, TX, Turner operates a thriving business out of Chris Johnsrud’s Cutting horse facility that employs several assistant trainers. With 14 years of experience, Turner has worked for Phil Rapp, John Mitchell and David Costello. His wife Lauren also assists Turner as well running her own baby clothing company called Cowbaby Gear. The
