Written by Tom Moates This article originally appeared in Eclectic Horseman Issue No.69 – Subscribe Today! Cowboy, colt starter, horse trainer, and rough stock rider Wade Black could steer his equine career in a wide range of directions. In recent years, he has developed a business and website called, Training for the Cross (www.trainingforthecross.com), which […]
Written by Tom Moates This article originally appeared in Eclectic Horseman Issue No.68 The last issue of Eclectic Horseman featured a story on the Neubert brothers, Jim and Luke, profiling their unique experience of criss-crossing America for many years working as professional contract colt starters. It also provided a series of photos of them working […]
Written by Patti Martin This article originally appeared in Eclectic Horseman Issue No.65 I confess. I was not sure what to expect at the clinic in Southern California, with Buck Brannaman. Oh, I have been to a few clinics with Buck before. But this one I thought would be somehow different. You know. With the […]
Written by Meg Cicciarella Achieving flying changes is a logical progression of training exercises, according to legendary horseman Jack Brainard. At a recent private lesson session, Jack led four riders through the preliminaries of the flying change. Laying the proper foundation makes flying changes become alarmingly simple. The process of accomplishing both is the subject […]
Written by Eclectic Horseman portrait of Ray Harmon by Jo-Anne Jackson Ray Harmon Memorial Roping There will be a Ray Harmon memorial ranch roping on March 27, in Benson, Arizona. The roping is open to everyone and will be held the day before Buck Brannaman’s ranch roping clinic. For more information please call Bob or […]
Written by Doreen Shumpert This article originally appeared in Eclectic Horseman Issue No.40 One day in 1994, the nationally syndicated agricultural-based radio show AgriTalk was talking about another “real-life issue, the kind nobody else would talk about,” according to then- producer Rustin Hamilton. This was customary of the show, which that particular day featured a […]
Written by Eclectic Horseman A collection of memories from Eclectic Readers about the late Tom Dorrance. Connie Brown: I never knew Tom Dorrance but all of my “teachers” are horses and trainers from his lineage. He made a great contribution to the good for both horses and horsemen and horsewomen today. Every day I delight […]
Written by Jim Overstreet Photo by Heather Hafleigh This article originally appeared in Eclectic Horseman Issue No.13 The Flying D Ranch cowboys were branding calves when Tom Dorrance drove up. Jim Thompson, a teenager at the time, still vividly recalls the day. Tom had visited only briefly when Jack Shell offered up his horse so […]
Written by Eclectic Horseman 1. How did you get involved with horses? I grew up on a ranch in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. We ran cattle and did everything horseback except the fencing, irrigating and haying. I learned to cowboy from my father and uncles who learned from their father and so […]
Written by Eclectic Horseman 1. How did you get involved with horses? I was an eastern-born, California-raised “town kid,” the proverbial black sheep when it came to dreams and later my profession. I saved up three hundred bucks by the time I hit 12 and was allowed to buy my first horse. She cost $300, […]