It was 8 o'clock on a Thursday night, with the opening performance of the National Finals Rodeo looming on the calendar, two weeks away. The temperature at Trevor Brazile's ranch in Decatur, Texas, ...

With a quick nod, Adam Gray’s world blurs into motion. A 250-pound calf shoots out of a metal gate with Gray and his horse, Tux, close on its heels. When Tux thrusts forward with his back legs, Gray ...

The recent Huntington High School graduate is headed to Panola College in Carthage, where he will not only get a few basic courses out of the way but also participate in calf roping and team roping ...

At a stable in Bennett earlier this week, 74-year-old Maurice Wade prepared his American Quarter Horse, Beer Money, for a highly anticipated trip to Denver. Once he’s adorned in a fancy engraved ...

CONWAY -- Breylin Smith's sanctuary sits on 40 acres past a winding road in southeast Conway. That road ends in gravel and comes up on a white barn with a garage door square in its middle. Through the ...

BENTON — With $4 coming to him, Justin Sands contemplated how to spend it. The temperature pushed toward 90 degrees as the sun climbed toward its noon position and Sands thought of buying an ice cream ...

Someday, Coy Burruel hopes to be a horse chiropractor. For now, though, he's quite content with working his horses hard — and possibly causing them some back pain — in the pursuit of fame on the youth ...

Cowboys chase a steer during the first round of the bulldogging competition at the Texas Black Invitational Rodeo this year. After a year without the Black rodeo, thousands attended the 32nd Texas ...

Showing and riding horses at the All American Quarter Horse Congress has long been a tradition for the Schaad family. Aaron Schaad, 51, has been competing since 1990, and in a transformed Celeste ...