Going into the New Year with all the promises and good things that it portends, just like the Sun cresting the mountain in the morning, I t...

Melissa wrote to me about her 10 year gelding who is always spooking and what she could do as he is not getting better at it. I wrote ba...

This morning on an early phone call with an old buddy of mine, which was a pleasant surprise, we talked about horses, but the conversation...

I received another question on barn sourness. A reader wrote - "I have a really good trail broke gelding, but he has one vice and t...

This past week we said goodbye to my old Boss, George Lewis Bankston, retired Chief of Range Enforcement. George crossed over to be with...

On 5 October 2019 we finished the 5th Annual Arena Challenge . West Texas had received quite a bit of rain in the weeks and day before the...

I hope that most people don't have anyone close to them commit suicide. The thought of that person having no hope, no possibility of...

The 5th Annual Functional Horsemanship Arena Challenge is scheduled for 5 October 2019.   The main purpose for this event is to challen...

I received an e-mail from Double Diamond Halter Company on the sudden passing of Bob Melson and set up of a Go Fund Me account to assist ...

This short story was posted by the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau and asked to be shared with readers. I am gladly including this b...

Happy 243rd Birthday to the greatest nation ever conceived on God's earth. Sometimes you would not know it from the protests, and fra...

A common question I receive is on backing horses. The questions "How do I get a horse to back up" or "How do I get my horse...

What do dressage horses, barrel horses, team roping, pleasure and ranch horses all have in common? It was that they and their riders wer...

If you are reading this then the term "Cowboy Up" likely means, to you, things like enduring discomfort to get the job done and...

I've never been a fan of horse racing, or for other futurity competitive horse events where young, physical immature horses are rode. Y...

We are fortunate enough to host a Randy Rieman clinic this coming May 4-5, 2019.  In fact, I just announced this and we have filled 10 o...

Cowboy poetry is one of the purest American forms of entertainment and really is actually an art form. Hope you will enjoy Cowboy Poetry C...

Why might you want or need to back a horse from the ground? By this I mean the handler standing still and moving the horse back using a voi...