BODY ENGLISH IN THE BOX
Granted, California’s Cody Snow ropes well.
But he scored so perfectly at the 2019 Wrangler NFR that he won the average by 13 seconds. He scored so perfectly in Round 7 that he clocked the fast time of the entire Finals. He scored so perfectly in Round 10 that his partner, Wesley Thorp, dallied on the gold heeling buckle. Afterward, Snow immediately split the win at Denver with Paul Eaves.
“The biggest key to winning is getting a good start,” said Snow, who lays all those barriers back aboard a 12-year-old buckskin mare he calls Annie—registered as Ima Fresnos Dee—he trained himself.
How does he make it look so easy? What’s Snow doing with his body in the corner to make that mare leave so fluid, with such perfect timing, wearing only a three-piece snaffle bit?
Here, Snow and some Hall-of-Fame horsemen offer the nitty-gritty on just what happens with their left hand and body as they nod for a steer.
A STRAIGHT FACE
Two-time world champion header John Miller revealed the first secret in
