Team Roping Gear, Horses & Cattle
Team roping gear and horses—made by team ropers for team ropers. Learn about the tools of the team roping trade.
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Team Ropers
The Cactus Craft: GM Josh Johnson
General Manager Josh Johnson navigates new waters for Cactus Saddlery as the company crafts better gear to serve its customers.

Rope Horse Care
There Will Never Be Another Scooter
Charles Pogue's iconic Scooter was a four-legged wonder.

Team Ropers
Cowboy-Era Maker: Cotton Elliot Bit and Spurs
Texas bit and spur maker Cotton Elliott learned the old ways of the craft but embraces both the challenges and the opportunities of doing business in this modern world.

Rope Horses
The Pitzer Legacy: Jim Brinkman and the Family Tradition That Helped Shape the Horse Market
Jim Brinkman and his wife, Tana, are living the Pitzer Ranch legacy started by Jim’s grandfather Howard Pitzer in the Sandhills of north central Nebraska in Ericson. They work alongside their grown children—son Sam and his wife, Kendra; and daughter Sarah and her husband, Lane Larreau—and run horses and cattle per family tradition. Plenty of team roping time is built into the Pitzer Ranch work schedule.

Rope Horse Care
How Kollin VonAhn Keeps His Horses in World Championship Shape
Two-time World Champion Heeler Kollin VonAhn's feeding regimen.

Team Roping Gear
Andy Holcomb’s Head Horse Tie-Down Theory
Understanding Tie-Downs Andy Holcomb explains when and how he uses a nylon noseband.

Rope Horses
Petska’s Chumley’s Road to Gold
Cory Petska's tie-downless wonder Chumley was just what he needed to get to gold.

Team Roping Gear
OLD SCHOOL: Brad Lund’s Matlock Rose Combination Hackamore
When Brad Lund feels a horse getting behind the bridle in the box, he pulls an old-school Matlock Rose combination hackamore out of his toolbox.

Team Roping Gear
New NRS Ladies Boots to Kick Off Spring
The NRS Women's Rios Ride Ready boots are a Spring essential.

Horsemanship
Futurity Heavyweight Andy Holcomb
Meet Andy Holcomb, the West Coast trainer zeroing in on aged ropings.