Western show classes like ranch riding and ranch trail usually feature obstacles and maneuvers that a horse would face in day-to-day riding and/or working, such as crossing bridges, opening gates ...

Stock/Ranch Horse Pleasure ... The Stock Horse Trail class, as the name implies, tests the horse’s ability to cope with situations encountered in everyday riding. The horse is ridden through a pattern ...

My horse performed better than I did ... The two of us were competing in an obstacle course trail ride that required everything from trotting in figure eights to navigating through a cluster ...

Gillette's Mandy Gagliano trains Rocky Mountain horses -- a unique breed can that can deliver a ride "smooth as glass" -- to ...

A Kentfield resident has donated a 120-acre ranch to a Nicasio organization that provides therapeutic horseback riding lessons to people with disabilities and their families. The 60-acre Halleck ...

Kayla Andersen, left, works with Madison Carratturo in a therapeutic horse riding session at Halleck Creek Ranch on Thursday, March 16, 2023, in Nicasio, Calif. (Frankie Frost/Special to the Marin ...

WT’s riders competed in two go-rounds in four classes, which included ranch reining, stock horse pleasure, ranch trail and cow work in three divisions.