One of the top calf roping horses in both the AQHA and PRCA arenas began his career on a racetrack in Brazil. Now, at 18 years of age, this gelding is still carrying top competitors to the pay window.

Montana rancher Darrell Stevenson teams up with two Russian cattlemen to export an entire cow outfit to the Russian steppes. In the first of a three-part series, the author rides along with the Stevenson cowboys to the land of borscht, fallow land and the $75 steak dinner.

World champion cow horse trainer Jay McLaughlin offers advice on how to keep your horse connected to cattle, from the first introduction to the finished show horse. 

Jay McLaughlin trains for Carol Rose Quarter Horses in Gainesville, Texas. The multi-event trainer has nearly $780,000 in lifetime earnings in working cow horse, reining and cutting events. Riding A Shiner Named Sioux, he captured the 2010 AQHA Junior Reining World Championship, and, aboard Genuine Masterpiece, McLaughlin won the 2010 AQHA Junior Working Cow Horse World Championship. At the 2011 NRCHA World Championship show, he captured the both the Open Two-Rein World Championship and Reserve World Championship in Open Hackamore.

Chiquita Pistol won the 2002 National Cutting Horse Association Futurity. Nine years later, she’s back in the show pen and still having the same mesmerizing effect on cattle and cutting fans.