All I can say is I had some cow horse & reiners talk to me or vote on the poll as what they want. Personally I know nothing about either.
I have ran barrels, penned, drilled and cut.
Breeding practices, that is now also being discussed. "There is not enough culling going on".
I agree with that. We treat ours as individuals and they will grow up to be what ever they are. We do not train them all to be cutters. We darn sure try them on cattle, but a few just would rather do something else for a living. That's fine with us. Plenty of other things to do horse back, it doesn't all have to be cuz daddy did it.
You wanna know my theory, the members who want the change can't speak out like I do, because they are afraid of backlash. I do care about that only if it gets in the way of my goal to change the age. Meaning it may hurt my cause if I get too carried away and that won't help the horses.
I have been asking and preaching this for about a year and a half now.
More and more are getting on board. I do not have the funds or means to contact every member.
I tried calling them, as fun as it was, I'd only get 2 calls made a day. LOL
Get to talking and and before you know it the day was gone.
Talked to one cutter that was setting right there where Eight Belles went down. Hard call to hang up from.
