Ranch Cutting Horse Pictures
Below are photos taken during a Ranch Cutting Horse class at a Foundation Quarter Horse show.
Ranch Cutting is a judged event that evaluates a horse on such things as its cow sense and its natural ability to read and work a cow.
For more information on the Ranch Cutting Horse class, please see the description beside each photo and the information at the bottom of this page. Please keep in mind that the information provided here is for general descriptive purposes only, and will not be accurate for all Ranch Cutting Horse classes.
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This palomino Quarter Horse has quietly entered the herd and is cutting out cow #7.
The Ranch Cutting horse is the horse being ridden by the man in the blue shirt. The other horse is a being ridden by a turnback rider. The Ranch Cutting horse has already cut cow #4 out of the herd, and is now demonstrating its ability to hold it, or prevent it from returning to the herd.
This horse and rider have already demonstrated their ability to cut and hold a cow out of the herd. They are now moving their cow down the arena to a pen.
This Ranch Cutting horse has finished showing its ability to cut and hold a cow out of the herd and move it down the arena. The horse is now finishing its work by driving the cow into a pen.
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Ranch Cutting Horse
The Ranch Cutting Horse class is a horse show class that judges a horse on such things as its cow sense and natural ability to read and work a cow. The Ranch Cutting Horse class is popular at Foundation Quarter Horse Shows, but may also be held under other sanctioning bodies or independently.
In Ranch Cutting horses are encouraged to be (and in some cases required to be) ranch horses, as opposed to a horse specially trained for cutting in the show ring. In Ranch Cutting the horse is usually asked to perform differently than in "regular" horse show cutting.
For example, in Ranch Cutting a horse may be asked to cut out only one cow from the herd, and the cow to be cut is chosen by show management instead of the rider. In addition, in Ranch Cutting the rider is typically allowed to visibly rein the horse without losing points. In some Ranch Cutting Horse events, after the cow is held away from the herd for a sufficient time the horse and rider then drive the cow into a pen.
Please keep in mind that the information provided above is for general descriptive purposes only, and will not be accurate for all Ranch Cutting Horse classes.
