Controlling a Cow on the Fence

Video Transcript

"Another game that we play that enhances our skills and helps teach our novice riders the art of keeping a cow. What we call. "On the wall". Laura's going to do her best to make sure that she keeps and her horse keep that cow positioned so that it's kind of sandwiched between the fence and her horse. It gives us the opportunity to learn how to turn that cow by our control and how to pick our angles. So that we have plenty of time to work the cow rather than chase it and Laura and her horse are doing a great job of showing us how we keep that cow in control against the wall. Picking our angles and importantly keeping the distance between the cow and the horse. Often times riders get much too close to the cow in their enthusiasm and effort to work it and then we loose the timing that we need to get our horse positioned to stop that cow on the wall. Creating the correct angle. Sometimes we say it's much like shooting pool you have got to time and, time the distance and judge the speed to get yourself in the position where you're going to keep that cow under your control."