Choose a Horse For Heeling

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This is Randall Powell for Expert Village and in this clip I am going to talk to you about selecting heel horse for team roping. Heel horses for team roping, you generally need a horse that is what you would call cowie. A horse that has a lot of cow bloodlines in his pedigree that really takes to a cow. They will pin their ears and run at one and try and bite one or something like that. You can usually tell that they are a cowie horse and they try to get after them. He needs to be shorter. It is usually better to be a shorter horse because you are closer to the ground, closer to the feet, make your shot and see your target and deliver your shot a lot easier if you are closer to the ground. A short horse but you also need him pretty squatty and heavy in the shoulders and also in the hips. They need to be pretty muscular and stout in that hip so that when they sit down, they can withhold the jerk that the header is going to pull on them. Whenever you take your dally, that header is still going to be moving down the pen and he is going to hit the end of his rope before his horse will face. So you need a heel horse that can really get in the ground and hold on to him while that all goes on. You don't want to injure a horse that is not big framed or something like that, if that jerk is pretty hard on him and it will pull him right out of the ground. So you need a horse that can really get down on the ground. It is also important to find a good heel horse that has a good stop. You want them to stop on their back feet, on their back end. You need them to get their back feet under themselves when they stop. You don't want one that will stop on its front because it will jar you too much and cause you to loose feet or miss your dally or something like that. So you need a heel horse that is short and fast and cowie and muscular that stops really well on his high end and that is what to look for when selecting a heel horse.

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