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Corey_cushing_practice_run — Corey Cushing remains cool and calm during a practice run. * Photo By Jenna Evans

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Brain Game: Sports Psychology Can Be The Key To Success For Many Riders

It’s show day, and you are feeling pretty good about your chances to do well. After all, your lessons and practice at home have been great. In the warm-up pen, […]

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Learning Curve: Roberson’s Rules Pt. 2

Published first in QHN October 15, 2017 Game time If you missed part 1 you can click right here. Roberson prefers for his customers learn to compete at weekend shows […]

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Learning Curve: Roberson’s Rules

In this learning curve called Roberson’s Rules, trainer Ben Roberson discusses techniques for helping non-pros and amateurs make the best of their cutting runs. Published first in QHN October 15, […]

Cutting

Life-changing Moment Leads to NCHA Amateur Rider of the Year

“It was kind of the dream you thought you’d never obtain. And if it weren’t for the accident, I would probably would not have done what I did.” – Rob Kuiper

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Will Rogers Memorial Center a Shrine to Love and Friendship

Progress being what it is, a new arena was a long overdue need for a city of Fort Worth growing out of its blue jeans. Fortunately for the Western performance […]

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Part II: Two of a Kind — Will Rogers and his Horses

Over the last 100 years, there really is no equal to Will Rogers when you calculate the sum of his parts as a stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, humorist […]

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Two of a Kind: Will Rogers and His Horses

Over the last 100 years, there really is no equal to Will Rogers when you calculate the sum of his parts as a stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, humorist […]

Joe Heim and Docs Okie Quixote at the 1984 Super Stakes

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Docs Okie Quixote a Superfly Gent if there ever was one

If anybody had any doubts about Docs Okie Quixote, the National Cutting Horse Futurity Association Futurity champion only months earlier, those were all erased when he followed it up with […]

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Australian Drought: Survival Down Under

More than 12.35 million acres burned. At least twenty-four people lost their lives and 2,000-plus homes were destroyed. Countless animals were lost, burned, dead.

Will Rogers Memorial Center home of the 2019 NCHA Futurity

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2019 NCHA Futurity Overview

The NCHA Futurity is lauded as the greatest event in cutting, and it’s set to celebrate the sport with more than three weeks of competition in Cowtown. The National Cutting […]