Acre and one by One Moore Playboy, A
Cool Player. Both of these colts will be
standing in the future under their new
prefix of Cool Cow Horses.
Xenalena has also been a strong Open,
Ladies and Junior mare over the
years - by Admiral Oak out of El Bocado
Nightmoves. She has recently retired
and being bred to A Cool Acre.
They know they have a very solid
breeding base of mares and will only
breed from performed mares from
now on. Ben is a very strong believer
in quality, not quantity and in the
genetics of the dams to produce high
quality performance horses. He has not
yet seen a great horse without a great
mother.
In closing Ben would like to recommend
to the AQHA that they bring a big focus
back to the cowhorse events, such as
Campdrafting and Cutting. Presently
there are over 10,000 members
between the ABCRA and the ACA and
growing rapidly. He thinks he could
conservatively say that at least 60%
of these riders are riding Australian
Quarter Horses - be it pure bred or first
cross. Also with the large amount of
revenue created from these horses,
the prize money and promotion by the
AQHA should be largely increased.
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In his opinion this money should be
distributed fairly and evenly right
around Australia to reach all Quarter
Horses and members wherever they
are, and not just concentrated on the
few big premier events. This could be
done by awarding prizes to the highest
placed Quarter Horses and their
members to make the feeling they are
included, and their contribution to the
breed is appreciated.
The broad rules of Campdrafting are:
The rider selects a single cow from a
herd of approximately 10 head in a yard
and cuts it out from the group. For this
the rider gets a maximum points of 26.
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Once cut out from the herd the rider
asks to open the gate and let the cow
out of the yard. The rider then has to
complete an outside course by pushing
the beast around two pegs in a figure of
eight and then to put it through another
three pegs close together, which is
called the gate. For this the rider gets
a maximum of 70 points and it’s called
‘ horse work’.
The rider has 45 seconds to complete
the course. The rider is awarded two
points for the 1st peg, one point for the
second peg and one for the gate - a total
of four points for a complete course total
of 100.
An average round would be 84 and a
really top round would be 92 - Cooldust
received a 95 round.
March • April • 2016 • The Australian Quarter Horse Magazine • Page 25