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Good morning everybody, this is Van Hargis with Van Hargis Horsemanship and welcome to the Ranch Road. "For years I've earned a reputation of getting horses to be good stoppers at a fairly young age and people have always asked, well how do you get those little young horses to stop so big? And number one, I don't really work on it in particular, I just work on the basic fundamentals. Number one, I...

Good morning everybody, this is Van Hargis with Van Hargis Horsemanship and welcome to the Ranch Road. We have a lot of students that come out to the ranch, and oftentimes on their applications, one of the first things they do to lend themselves some sort of credibility is tell me two things.   I've been around horses my whole life, and then second is I love horses.   Now, both of those are import...

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Now here's legendary trainer, Vaughn Knudson. "If you've opened a circle or you're in a spin, working a cow doesn't matter if you turn the left, you put your hand out there, his eye goes first and then his head. And that's extremely important because all other bits, it's the right eye that goes first and then he turns his head to the left. The best way you can ever work a horse is to have left wor...

Colorado Horsewoman Mindy Bower reflecting back on her experience with Ray Hunt, "But the first moment I listened to him I was, I couldn't believe how amazing it was so it didn't take me but a minute to figure that out. But I just feel like nowadays there's just trainers or there's a million of them. They're everywhere and it doesn't take anything to get a client. I mean I've worked with a lot of...

Hi, I'm Bill Gross, founder and president of Farm Rescue. Through the 1980s my parents had some financial hardships, our family was in danger of losing the farm. My family told me to pursue higher education and a career outside of farming. So I went on to be an airline pilot. I've been flying for UPS Airlines as a Boeing 747 captain for more than 30 years. But you know my heart never left the farm...

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I get questions all the time, "Ricky, in your opinion what does it take to make a bridal horse?" I just kind of shrug my shoulders now where I am in my life and I'm like I don't know the answer to that. I don't, I mean because if you go and you talk to my friend Buck about it, he's pretty sophisticated in what he's looking for to make that horse a bridal horse in the movements that he wants, right...

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More from Jeter Eisley on his book, The Walking Y... The good guy is based on a grouch that I knew, a make him a rancher. And all the kids are based on, I was a school teacher for a while, all the kids are based on kids that I taught, change names and change the location in the year. But there are kids that I taught either in school or I taught at a boarding school for awhile. And you can have fun...

Here's our co-host David Woodruff with Anchor Brand Ranch's Ramzi Hughes on using Mustangs on the ranch. What we do is kind of narrow my favorite breeds down to the American Quarter Horse and the regular old Mustangs. It's kind of a mixture of what we've got. Those Mustangs are tough and they go like crazy and the kids can break them and ride them and use them for ranch horses. But they are not th...

The AQHA Executive Committee put out the following statement: Effective Friday, March 6, Karl Stressman is no longer employed by AQHA. Incoming CEO Dave Dellin has assumed all duties and responsibilities as chief executive officer. We thank Karl for his years of service and wish him well. Dave will continue working with the AQHA Executive Committee, AQHA staff, the AQHA Board of Directors and many...

A classic interview! Listen in to this one with Buck Brannaman talking about how Ray Hunt influenced his career.

Horsewoman and trainer Sharon Camarillo on the little things. When you're unsaddling your horse, that's the time to look for dry spots, rubbed hairs, soreness when you're brushing that horse's back off. I always like to use just a little alcohol and water or liniment on my horse's back as I brush off that sweat. And you know, you're a good sitting saddle with the right pad when you pull it off, sh...

Let's join the conversation that the late Howard Hale had with Trainer Sharon Camarillo... The best horse that I've ever took to the national finals, 7, this horse I bought from a cutting trainer, Leon Harold, when he was 3, he wasn't really broke. I got him broke. I was sending some cowboys on ranches to just put some miles on him. He's always a little volatile. My husband used to say if you ever...

Is it important to have a relaxed horse during a competition?   A point to make is you see some barrel racing horses that may be really good. They walk out calm and comfortable. Then it's time to go and they run through their routine and then they come back and they turn it off and they're calm and they're comfortable again. Then you see these other ones that are so juiced up. I don't know. Parent...

Now here's more from Dr. Steve Peters on the question, do the horses have to see us as the leader? Not really because that's one way that you know that people for years have talked about this. The funny thing is, there's different kinds of leaders. There may be that broodmare, that rules the roost around all the horses in the pasture, but you take that broodmare away from it, everybody else and it...

In a past interview, the late Howard Hale once asked Ricky if he had any trouble keeping all those horses sound. We got to keep 50 riders going and then the condition is that we have to ride these horses in whether it's outside or in that feed yard anywhere it's going to be tough to keep them sound. But no, we don't. But as many horses as we have, the kind of lameness that we have are very, very m...

More great information from Horse Trainer, Ricky Quinn. From what I've gathered, the whole program you have there Ricky starts with the halter breaking. Absolutely. You bring those babies in, you ween them off their mom. First thing we do is toss a little rope around their neck, their foot, but just toss them that rope on there, start and roll the hind quarters in the beginning and allow them all...

Here's Horse Trainer Ricky Quinn with an infamous question that is asked often. I get questions all the time, "Ricky, in your opinion what does it take to make a bridal horse?" I just kind of shrug my shoulders now where I am in my life and I'm like I don't know the answer to that. I don't, I mean because if you go and you talk to my friend Buck about it, he's pretty sophisticated in what he's loo...

Once you get to be a cowboy there should be a lot of pride there. You should believe in yourself.  You got to have confidence to give confidence to the horse to be able to move a cow that doesn't want to be moved.  You got to think something of yourself. But sometimes in that world too it can be really hard to change. There's no difference in anywhere. And that change is really, really hard. But s...