Great All-Around Performance Prospect

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Appaloosa

The Appaloosa breed was develped in North America by the Nez Perce Indians and is best known for its colorful spotted coat pattern. The common physical breed characteristics include motted skin, white sclera, striped hooves.

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Ranch Horse Pleasure

Ranch Horse Pleasure's main purpose is to showcase a working horse's movement, attitude, and versitility. The main consideration in Ranch Horse Pleasure is the horse's overall manners, responsiveness, and qualty of movement. The class shows the horses ability to work at a forward speed while remaning under control with light contact by the rider.

Judging is scored on the basis of 0 to 100, with 70 denoting an average performance. Penalties include: too slow, break of gait, wrong lead, blatant disobedience.

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Ranch Versatility

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Reined Cowhorse

Working cow horse, Reined Cow Horse, is judged where exhibitors are asked to work a single cow in the arena, while performing specfic maneuvers that include a reining pattern, circling a cow, and turing the cow on the fence. The competition consists of 3 phases reined work, fence work, and herd work. The highest compost score from all phases determines the overall winner. Horses are judged on responsiveness, accuracy, and timing and how well they handle that live cow.

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Reining

Reining is a judged western discipline designed to show the athletic abilities of the cowboys ranch horse, and the confines of the show arena. The National Reining Horse Association has 13 approved patterns that include small slow circles, large fast circles, 360 degree spins, flying lead changes, roll backs over the horses hocks and the hallmark sliding stop that are always a crowd favorite.

The NRHA judging system is judged from 0-100 with a 70 denoting an average score. Each maneuver in the reining pattern recieves a score of +1 1/2 to -1 1/2, with half point increments with 0 indicating an average maneuver.

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Roping