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Barrel Racing tests the horse’s athletic ability and the rider’s horsemanship skills. The team runs a cloverleaf pattern around three preset barrels in the fastest time possible. While both sexes compete at youth and amateur levels, at collegiate and professional levels the competitors are mainly women.  

Cowboy Mounted Shooting involves a horse, cowboy, and their guns negotiating a course filled with targets. The cowboys use two 0.45 caliber single action revolvers firing blanks at balloons mounted on posts in various patterns. Each revolver is loaded with five blanks. The rounds are timed, ranging between fifteen and thirty-five seconds, and there are ten balloons. There is a five second penalty for each missed balloon and a ten second penalty for not running the course correctly.  

Dressage is a test of the horse and rider on how well they can perform a series of prescribed movements. Derived from the French verb “dresseur”, meaning “to train”, the top dressage students have impeccably trained their horses to develop harmonious and fluid movements performed from seemingly imperceptible signals.  Dressage is an extremely difficult discipline and has deep historical and classical roots.  The USA National and FEI governed levels exist to promote uniformity internationally.

Eventing is the equestrian’s triathlon: Dressage. Cross Country Jumping. Show Jumping.

It is a true test to a horse and riders’ complete ability – grace, bravery, endurance, poise, and precision. Throughout the event, penalty points accrue. The pair with the lowest score at the end wins. 

Mounted Games are amazingly fast and played on ponies by people of all ages. The many different Mounted Games require a high degree of athletic ability, riding skills, hand-eye coordination, perseverance, competitiveness, and teamwork.  

 Polocrosse is just what it sounds like – Polo meets Lacrosse. Each rider uses a fiberglass stick with a loose net attached to carry, pickup, pass, and shoot a sponge rubber ball. A team of six rotates two different groups of three throughout the match – an attackman, defenseman, and midfielder. The most goals scored at the end of the last chukka wins.  

Roping events are one of the western sports that the public is most familiar with. Roping demonstrates one of the most exciting aspects of the working cowboy. Simulating the need to capture cattle, competitors are tasked to lasso the cow over the head, on the horns, and/or around the hind legs before securing the animal as the event dictates. The fastest time wins. There are three different roping events:

• Calf Roping
• Breakaway Roping
• Team Roping

The sport of vaulting combines dance and gymnastics on a moving horse. Vaulters may compete individually, in pairs, or as part of a team. In team competitions, up to three members of the team are on the horse at once doing a variety of moves!  Competition levels are broken down by the speed of the horses’ gait.