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\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 Cutting horses have been doing their job without fanfare from the earliest days of European settlement in North America.\u00a0 \u201cCutting\u201d is the act of separating a cow from the herd for vaccinating, castrating, and sorting. \u201cCutting horses\u201d are usually Quarter horses that have been trained and selectively bred (much like sheep dogs) to instictavely separate a single cow from a herd and keep it seperated.\u00a0 The best horses would do the job with only minimum input from the rider.\u00a0 Like the origin of many sports, riders would brag to each other about who had the best horse and presto-competition was born.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 In the event, the horse and rider select and separate a cow (typically a steer or heifer) out of a small group. The cow then tries to return to its herd; the rider loosens the reins (“puts his hand down” in the parlance) and leaves it entirely to the horse to keep the cow separated, a job the best horses do with relish, savvy, and style. A contestant has 2 \u00bd minutes to show the horse; typically three cows are cut during a run, although working only two cows is acceptable. A judge awards points to the cutter based on a scale that ranges from 60 to 80, with 70 being considered average.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 In 1946 the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) was formed, and this has been the governing orginiozation for the sport.\u00a0 In 1972 the NCHA was formed in Australia and is an affiliate of the American National Cutting Horse Association.\u00a0 Cutting is one of the fastest growing equine sports in the world. \u00a0In 2006, the contestants at the United States NCHA Futurity competed for more than $3.7 million\u2014over a hundred times the offering of the first year. \u00a0Total purses at NCHA-approved shows now exceed $39 million annually, not including prize money distributed at Australian Cutting Horse Association, American Cutting Horse Association, single-breed shows, or European and Canadian events.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 A good example of the popularity of the sport is its ability to attract riders (and fans) from areas of the country where few horse ranches exist.\u00a0 Thomas H. Bailey, 73 years old, didn\u2019t do much horse riding when he worked on Wall Street.\u00a0 Bailey is an urban cowboy who is now competing at the elite levels of the sport.\u00a0 Bailey has now earned nearly $90,000, not from trading but from riding.<\/p>\n

“Rodeo Drive: Rich Urban Cowboys on Fine Horses Best Ranch Hands” . WSJ 16, December 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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