Persuasive Essay On Rodeuis

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There are many different ways to show off your equines skill and ability and competitions are one of them. For years humans have been entering their equines in competitions to show off their grace, beauty, and strength. There's an abundance of competitions to show off your equestrian and each require a different type of training, horse, and skills. Three of the more popular competitions are rodeos, dressage, and show jumping. These competitons can include either speed, agility, skill, or even all three at one time!
Professional rodeo is one of the more popular equine competitions.The beginnings of rodeo can be traced back to the ranches of the early 1700’s, when the Spanish ruled the West. The Spanish cattlemen on these early ranches had duties including roping, horse breaking, riding, herding, branding, and much more. These events are now competitions in our modern day rodeos (Clark).
Today's rodeos consists of two types of competitions – roughstock events and timed events. Rough stock events include bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, and bull riding. In these competitions, a contestant must ride a bucking horse or bull for a certain amount of time. In bull riding competitions, the rider's only concern is remaining on the bull for as long as he possibly can. However, in saddle bronc and bareback riding, the cowboy must "mark out" his horse. "Marking out" a horse is when the cowboy must exit the chute with his spurs set above the horse's shoulders and hold them there until the horse's front feet hit the ground after the jump out of the chute. If he fails, he is disqualified.
Timed events in steer wrestling, team roping, tie-down roping, barrel racing, and steer roping. Barrel racing is an event in which a hor...

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...ds of horses have been great show jumpers. Most of these horses are over 16 hands and usually of Warmblood or Thoroughbred breeding. These horses have to like jumping without being trained to jump. A horse that doesn't like jumping, even though it was trained to jump, can refuse to jump during important moments, like a competition(Horse Breed List).
Rodeo, dressage, and show jumping are just a few of many competition in which your horse can compete in. Each of these require different horses, skills, and training for competitions. Rodeos have mostly American Quarter horses competing, while dressage can have any horse breed and show jumping usually has Warmblood or Thoroughbred horses. Each competition requires extensive training to produce a fantastic result. Rodeo, dressage, and show jumping are just a few of many competition in which your horse can compete in.

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