The Team Roping Journal

RIDING IS AS IMPORTANT AS ROPING AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL

hen I started roping, there wasn't a lot of emphasis on getting your horses really broke, like they do in other disciplines such as cutting, reining and reined cow horse. I was a get on and go rope guy, like just about everybody else. I could ride a horse through a tornado, but as far as knowing how to really have one broke, stopping, sliding and turning around, I didn't start studying that part of it

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