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
Shane Steffen working buffalo out of a herd Is the expense and difficulty of sourcing cattle getting to be too much for you? Some reined cow horse trainers are branching out and working buffalo instead. Shane Steffen, 2021 World’s Greatest Horseman Champion based in Powell Butte, Oregon, started using buffalo out of
Paul Bonnello has been training for the public off and on for 10 years. He has a history degree from Chico State and he even attended a farrier school. He started colts in college and worked on ranches where it was necessary to shoe your own horse. He still shoes
Russel Dilday giving a boxing clinic You could say going down the fence in reined cow horses is the hero event of the sport. Like bull riding at a rodeo, it’s what the crowd most wants to see. But chasing down a cow at breakneck speed and turning
Photo By Nancy Loudon Photography Maria Bendixen started out reining and soon moved onto reined cow horse and ranch versatility. She went to a clinic with a reined cow horse trainer and she was hooked. She has been involved in the industry for the past 10 years, becoming a trainer
Total Earnings: $773,339 Sarah Dawson’s father, renowned horseman Richard Winters, piqued her interest in showing reined cow horses competitively. She went to shows with him and started competing in the youth as a high schooler. Later, she worked for Sandy Collier who was the first woman to win the Snaffle Bit
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