Nick Dowers, cow horse trainer and former Road to the Horse champion, works with Leroy, a big brown gelding he started at Road to the Horse 2018.
Ross Hecox read his first issue of Western Horseman at age 13 and has been reading the magazine ever since. While growing up in Texas, two of Ross’ main interests were horses and writing stories. At Texas A&M University, he majored in English with a creative writing track, and minored in Journalism. However, his favorite class was an equine science course in which students each started a 2-year-old under saddle.
Upon graduation, Ross began working for the Paint Horse Journal. After a two-year stint at the National Cutting Horse Association, he accepted a job as editor of Performance Horse magazine. In 2006, he began working for Western Horseman.
Ross and his wife, Amye, and their son, Drew, live in Weatherford, Texas. They have two horses and a handful of cows.
More than just a cutter or a trainer’s wife, California horsewoman Janet Westfall has made a name for herself…
Road to the Horse names North Central Texas College the inaugural winners of the Collegiate Colt Starting Challenge.
Despite visiting Palo Duro Canyon several times in recent years, photographer Ross Hecox says this special place in the Texas Panhandle always has a surprising effect on him.
Richard Winters discusses the snaffle and the proper way to use the bit.
Jason Pelham has become a good friend of the magazine, and maybe that’s why I’m always drawn to this photo of him moving cows in 2006 on the Spade Ranches division in the Texas Panhandle, where he still works.
California reined cow horse trainer Clayton Edsall purchased Sly to use on the ranch. Since then, the gelding has helped start colts, drag calves, and exceed expectations in the show pen.
Photographing the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo has got to be the most action-packed shoot that I do each year.
Benny Binion’s Bucking Horse and Bull Sale during the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, features some of the best rough stock prospects.
They say cattle stay calmer when fed with a team, rather than with a tractor. And tractors get stuck and sometimes don’t start in bitter cold conditions.
