In the last stage, the vaquero uses a bridle with bit to teach a horse to be responsive with the lightest touch of the hand. The emphasis is always on building a stronger foundation for the horse ...

Horse trainer Clint Surplus carries on the centuries-old tradition of vaquero bridle horses.

Pat and Deb Puckett and Bruce Sandifer, along with other members of the California Bridle Horse Association, created a small pen and showed how skilled cowboys and their horses cut and rope live ...

The Vaquero Award goes to an individual for lifetime achievement within cow horse and to a member who consistently promotes the association while preserving its heritage, and Rick Drayer has ...

In the rolling hills of Chapman Valley, just out of Geraldton in Western Australia, a group of horses and their riders have been put through their paces.

The pieces -- bridles, hackamores, lariats, hobbles, even some clever miniatures -- were created not only to be beautiful but to go easy on a horse’s hide.