Ride under the lights and get professional help with your horse from 6:00 - 8:00pm on Wednesday nights at Tom McCutcheon Reining Horses, Inc. in Aubrey, TX.

Professional trainers will be on hand to help if you’re having trouble with your reining maneuvers, or just plain can’t get your horse to stand still while you’re trying to get on. All problems can be addressed for all levels of riders and horses.

Cost is $50. Limit 10 riders. Book now at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . First to sign up will have week to week preference.

2010 Fun Night Schedule:
--April 21 & 28
--May 5, 12, 19, 27
--June 2, 9, 16
--July 14, 21, 28

When late summer rolls around every year, it signals a highly anticipated initiation of sorts within the reining horse industry. For it is at that time that many of the brightest and the best reining prospects make their show pen debut as futurity season gets under way. The world over, riders enter the show pen for the first time on three year olds that have the kind of expectations riding on them that only a high purchase price and two years of expensive training could bring. So it is no wonder that those first couple times in the show pen carry a lot of significance.

By Dell Hendricks as told to E-Reiner.com

If you ever watch a fencing session at a horse show, chances are you'll see some pretty crazy things.  And after doing many clinics through the years, and asking the question “Does anybody know why we are fencing?”, it's become apparent to me that there's a lot of confusion about the purpose of fencing. In fact, when I ask that question, probably 85% of the time, people will respond with some variation of “…because we see other people doing it.”

With all the hype and money surrounding the reining futurities these days, you may be thinking that showing a three year old is looking like something that you might like to try.  This can be especially true if you are a non pro that has been drug around the show pen one too many times by a seasoned reiner with a ‘been there, done that, I know a shortcut’ kind of attitude. 

By Craig Schmersal as told to E-Reiner.com

In any reining pattern, being on the outside lead in a circle is cause for nothing but penalty points.  In fact, penalty points associated with incorrect leads is probably one of the most common mistakes you see in the show pen.  So it’s no wonder that some people don’t see much sense in integrating the counter canter into their everyday routine. After all, why would you want to refine something that you want to avoid in the show pen? 

By Brent Wright

One way or another you made it through the NRHA Futurity. For better or worse, richer or poorer, the Futurity is a done deal.  With the New Year dawning, you're probably now steering your soon to be four year old towards the next major money event in his career.

 © E-Reiner
 
With only a limited number of maneuvers making up a handful of patterns, avoiding burnout in your reining horse can become a full time job.  It doesn't take long for a horse to figure out that there are only so many ways a pattern can be run, and that a ride in the show pen likely means doing all the maneuvers at a physically challenging level...

By Charlotte Morris

By spending an extra 10 minutes on your horse every time you ride, you can learn to spot issues before they become a larger problem and to also become more familiar with your horse as a companion.

The majority of horse owners do a visual check on their horses before they ride by looking for swellings and scrapes and then running a brush over the horse. The horse’s feet will be picked, also. Then the saddle is put on and the horse is taken out for exercise.