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COWGIRL Empowered: EMILY KONKEL

Executive Director, National Reined Cow Horse Association
April 22, 2024
Growing up, Michigan native Emily Konkel had always dreamt of training horses. As she became more involved in the Western industry, she discovered the vast opportunities outside training. She began producing events in Michigan and eventually moved to Oklahoma to pursue other opportunities. What started as contract labor at various National Reined Cow Horse Association...
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5 Fun Facts About Reined Cow Horse

How familiar are you with this exciting discipline?!?
By Emily Fought
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March 6, 2024
Reined cow horse is a wild and exciting sport! These horses are serious athletes. They can work a cow and complete a reining pattern while looking good doing it. In most competitions, the rider and horse are judged in herd work, rein work, and cow work. There is a high level of difficulty. Facts About...
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Sarah Dawson

By Alison Bonaguro
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August 3, 2023
Photographed by Kirstie Jones Sarah Dawson’s not like other millionaires. She’s in the saddle and taking the reins of her stable’s cow horses, even when other riders might rest on their laurels after having passed the million-dollar mark. According to the National Reined Cow Horse Association, Dawson has made $1,374,048 in her lifetime. She is one of the...
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Girl Power At The World’s Greatest Non Pro

By Paige Brandon
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August 2, 2023
Three cowgirls claimed the top three spots at the first ever World’s Greatest Non Pro. Debbie Crafton, the notable non pro, won the World’s Greatest Non Pro Champion title aboard her 2017 gelding, Hesa Wee Bit. After tying with R A Brown II and Ima Wynna RAB for the highest cow work score of 221,...
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Cowgirls Take Over The Stallion Stakes

By Paige Brandon
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March 31, 2023
The cowboys have taken over Vegas again… or should we say cowgirls!? This past week, Las Vegas has been home to the National Reined Cow Horse Association Stallion Stakes. Owned by Teton Ridge, the Stallion Stakes shows off the abilities of four and five-year-old “Subscribed Stallions” to turn around, slide to a stop, and work...
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World's Greatest Youth Horsewoman

By Paige Brandon
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February 20, 2023
Seventeen-year-old, Tylie Norcutt, led the pack of youth riders in the World’s Greatest Youth Horseman finals. After competing in four events – steer stopping, reining, cow work, herd work – nine youth horsemen went on to a “fence-only” finals. Music blared and the crowd cheered this past Saturday night. The youth competed down the fence...
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The American Performance Horseman Qualifiers

By Paige Brandon
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December 18, 2022
Teton Ridge created The American Performance Horseman to debut during the American Rodeo this spring. “For the first time ever, the top five year-end money earning professionals in cutting, reined cow horse and reining will come together to compete for $1,000,000 in prize money in a competitive exhibition format,” writes the National Reined Cow Horse...
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CowGIRL Power In The Cowboy Class

By Paige Brandon
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November 23, 2022
Kelsey Love Thomas of the Love Ranch won the Cowboy Class at the 2022 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity while riding Kit Kat Jerrie. The Cowboy Class is a new addition to the National Reined Cow Horse Association. The goal of the class is to welcome working ranch cowboys and cowgirls to show reined cow horses....
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Sarah Dawson In The Lead!

By Paige Brandon
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November 4, 2022
After the dust has cleared from the ten-foot sliding stops and spins on a dime at the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity, the new results of the Teton Ridge The American Performance Horseman have been posted. Sarah Dawson is now in the lead for reined cow horse! The American Performance Horseman is the creation of Teton...
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