HELIX – Stephanie Wilson nosed her horse, Twotone Jakes, a little closer. The calf in front of her moved its head, paused, then shifted its weight to the other foot. Twotone Jakes, facing the calf, ...

“Horse does all the work,” Keith Deaville, a judge with the National Cutting Horse Association, said. The horses he spoke about were cutting horses competing in a show at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center ...

Seated high atop his 4-year-old American quarter horse Sweet Holly Okie, Windsor resident Tom Mertle glanced down at a 550-pound black-and-white Angus heifer. He put down his reins, signaling to the ...

More than 1,300 head of cattle and 250 participants descended on the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds in Watsonville last weekend for the fifth Cutting on the Coast. Cutting is an event in the western ...

• Cutting horses are used to "cut'' individual animals from herds of cattle. In the Old West — and still today, in some parts of cattle country — these horses helped separate cattle for branding, ...

The late Billy Cogdell of Tulia became famous for owning prize winning cutting horses. Cogdell owned Shania Cee, which won the 1999 National Cutting Horse Association World Championship Futurity in ...

It is officially Rodeo Season and with over two million visitors a year, thousands of vendors, and nearly 34,000 volunteers, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is one the most coveted competitions ...

Reporting from Las Vegas — Equestrian events return to the South Point Arena and Equestrian Center through Sunday, when the cutting world’s top riders compete in the Mercuria World Series of Cutting.

Cows, with their multiple stomachs, can digest all manner of plant material. Horses need hay, high quality hay. As a drought-caused hay shortages looms this winter, here's an interesting strategy to ...