Once your horse can run straight, have control in his body, and is listening to your cues, you can start adding speed to your sliding stop to help with sliding a longer distance.

Bud Lyon continues his first ride on the three-year-old reining filly, working her through the trot, lope, turnaround, and backup to see what he's really got.

Brad Barkemeyer works with a horse that knows the basics of the stop but needs help with getting more out of the sliding stop.

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Bud Lyon runs his staircase drill on the seven-year-old reiner, climbing from walk to extended walk, trot, extended trot, lope, and extended lope, then backing down the same steps. He uses it to get a daily baseline on a green horse and read where the work is, and today it tells him plenty: this ...

Bud Lyon breaks down the imaginary box, the standard he uses to measure whether a horse is truly responsive. Picture a tight window from the base of the neck to the top of the saddle horn and about two inches either side of the mane. If Lyon can steer, rate speed, and get collection with his hand...

Bud Lyon swings a leg over a seven-year-old gelding his wife bought the week before, an NRHA money earner with no ranch trail experience, and introduces him to the obstacles for the first time. He works through the logs, the bridge, the gate, and the log drag, reading how the horse handles each o...

Bud Lyon rides a three-year-old filly that's been in his program five months, far enough along that he can start stringing maneuvers together the way a ranch riding pattern demands. He runs his checklist first, then works the extended walk, transitions, side passes, turns, lead changes, and logs ...

Bud Lyon explains why he never takes a green horse to its first show expecting to win, only to learn. He talks through finding a horse's mental and physical limits at home so nothing surprises you in the pen, why some horses need more preparation than others, and how a horse that feels dialed in ...

Bud Lyon introduces the three-year-old reining filly to the logs for what's almost certainly the first time in her life, starting with a single log at the walk before working up to trotting and a set of four in a row. She surprises him, careful and deliberate about where she places her feet but n...

Bud Lyon test drives the flying lead change on the three-year-old reining filly to see what he's working with, since he'd rather save the simple change for emergencies. What he finds surprises him: the right-to-left change is the sticky one, where she wants to cheat through her body instead of li...

Bud Lyon takes on a maneuver the three-year-old reining filly has almost certainly never done: the extended trot. He works through the problem every rider hits here, when posting to lengthen the stride tips a green horse into the lope, and shows two ways to fix it. She picks up the concept quickl...

Bud Lyon goes back to work on the two things he flagged on his first ride of the three-year-old reining filly: her steering and her transitions. He shows the drills that help with both.

Bud Lyon breaks down how he evaluates and transitions a young horse into the ranch classes, using a three-year-old filly that landed in his barn just days earlier.
She comes from a reining background. Her owner wanted to find out if she'd make a better ranch prospect than a reining one, and Lyon ...

It's great to break down each part of a fence work run at home and see what your horse needs help with. In this video, Brad Barkemeyer works on his horse's rate and being able to drive a cow through the corner before going down the fence.

Brad Barkemeyer shows you how he likes to practice the boxing portion of a fencework run at home and some of the drills he likes to incorporate to get the most out of his cow work practice.

Brad Barkemeyer shows you how to add a little finesse to your circling maneuvers to give it some eye appeal and really stand out in the show pen.

In this session, Ryan Rushing works through circling with a 3-year-old mare, focusing on developing the feel and body control needed for a solid reining foundation. Ryan explains exactly what he’s feeling underneath him and how he wants the mare’s body to respond—soft, guided, and connected from ...

Casey Allen sits down with Sawyer Wilkerson, the 2D Open Only Average Winner, at the 2026 Ruby Buckle West barrel race on the EQN Sports Desk, driven by the Holiday Auto Group.

Casey Allen sits down with Deven Warren, the 5D Open Only Average Winner, at the Ruby Buckle West barrel race on the EQN Sports Desk, driven by the Holiday Auto Group.

Casey Allen sits down with Hadli Taylor, the winner of round 2 of the owner/rider 5D, at the Ruby Buckle West on the EQN Sports Desk, driven by the Holiday Auto Group.

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Amy Wilson sits down with Sophia Guzman, the winner of round 2 of the Rookie Ruby 3D, at the Ruby Buckle West barrel race on the EQN Sports Desk, driven by the Holiday Auto Group.