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Heading Horsemanship

Explore the intricacies of training head horses in team roping with our expert coaches, including Trevor Brazile and Miles Baker. This series covers selecting the right head horse and advanced training techniques to enhance performance and partnership in the arena. Benefit from the insights of Dakota and Tate Kirchenschlager to ensure your head horse is a reliable asset during roping competitions. Unlock the potential of your team with our detailed guidance and instructional videos.

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  • Heading Horsemanship & Facing with Trevor Brazile | Legend

    Trevor Brazile knows a thing or two about training head horses. In this video, he shares some helpful drills and tips on facing to help give you an edge and grow as a rider as well. Watch this clip from the Legend film.

  • Riding your Horse for a Consistent Catch

  • Managing the Elements: A Deep Box

    While top-tier jackpots generally control for most variables, plenty of ropings offer a variety of obstacles to success—like deep ground that bogs horses down in the boxes. Kolton Schmidt talks about how to ride for that situation and how to help your horse help you.

  • 4-Year-Old Inferno 66 Futurity Colt | Managing the Head Horse’s Mind

    As Dakota Kirchenschlager rides 4-Year-Old Inferno 66 Futurity Colt, he addresses how to prepare a stronger horse's mind right.

  • Dialing a Green Head Horse Back Down

    After putting high-pressure runs in competition on a young head horse, Trevor Brazile and Miles Baker talk through how they calm that horse back down and bring him back to his fundamentals. 

  • The Importance of Slow Practice Cattle

  • Head Horse Build

    Jake Barnes prioritizes horse performance above all else. But he's learned a thing or two about how conformation can affect performance.

  • Creating Draw to Cattle

    Trevor Brazile and Miles Baker explain how to help teach your horse to be drawn to the steer if it isn't something that comes second nature to them in this Relentless Insights video brought to you by Cactus Ropes.

  • Introducing Steer Stopping

    Brad Lund often takes cow horses and reiners and turn them into head and heel horses. In this video, he talks through an entire session on a green horse in the steer stopping. 

  • Developing Collection Through the Run

    On this Metallic Cat mare, Dakota Kirchenschlager addresses her tendency to get strung out through the corner and shows how keeping her framed up can help her develop a better stop.

  • Is There a Such Thing As Too Much Slide?

    Is there such a thing as too much slide? Trevor Brazile says 'Nah.' Here's why. 

  • Benefits of Riding a Cowboy-Type Horse

    Trevor Brazile has a tough horse in the barn that’s broke to death and makes his job fun. He talks about why here.

  • Stirrup Length and Body Position

  • Physically Preparing Different Styles of Horses

    Reiners, cutters, cow horses and running bred horses all require different workout regimens and warm-ups. Here is how Trevor Brazile and Miles Baker prepare each different type of horse for competition.

  • World Series Starts vs. Rodeo Starts

    The secret to the start wherever you are is keeping your horse listening to you rather than the bang of the gate or the movement of the steer.

  • Green Head & Heel Horse Training Runs

    Dakota Kirchenschlager and Brad Lund talk ropers through an entire practice session on green horses, including addressing tightness in a heel horse and overbridling in an ex-reiner on the head side. 

  • Elbow, Rein and Coil Control

    The way you hold your coils and your reins affects your horsemanship as much as it affects your roping. Feeding with your rein-hand, improper coil position and improper elbow control all can be detrimental to your horsemanship and your roping. The 26-time World Champion Trevor Brazile explains why. 

  • Fine-Tuning Aggressive, Green Horses

    Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper ride almost-ready-to-rodeo green horses through a windy practice session.

  • Maintaining Consistent Speed Through the Run

    Aaron Tsinigine talks to a group of Navajo Nation ropers about keeping your horse consistent down the pen and through the corner. 

  • Warm Your Horse Up Correctly

    Roping can be made a lot easier by warming your horse up correctly. Kevin Stewart discusses how to keep horses soft and relaxed during a warm up to get them to respond well when they run steers.

  • Freeing Up Your Horse

  • The  90 Degree Angle

  • Developing All-Around Horses

    Justin Briggs talks about the typical program at Briggs Performance Horses for developing solid all-around horses through barrel, cow and break-a-way roping work.

  • Tuning a Ratey Head Horse

    Trevor Brazile has two full siblings by Metallic Cat out of his Popular Resort Figure mare, and one—Relentless Big Shot—comes with a ton of rate. In this video, he talks through a practice session on Big Shot and describes how he keeps him running to the steer.