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deliberate back up, snappy over the hock roll backs, and nice circles. Smoothness, willingness, and correctness demonstrate the horse’s ability to complete the pattern.
Stock Horse Working Cow Horse classes are designed to demonstrate and measure the horse’s ability to work a cow. Three levels are offered and listed below.
Novice and Youth Working Cow Horse Class was developed as an entry-level cow class and consists of a warm up dry work pattern and boxing for one minute. The dry work simulates the same moves that the horse will do while controlling the cow. This is not an equitation pattern and the judge wants to see you make maneuvers as if working a cow.
Green Horse and Limited Non-Pro Working Cow Horse Class has no dry work prior to working the cow and is developed as an intermediate level cow horse class. Horse and rider will box the cow, drive the cow down the fence and then box the cow at the opposite end of the arena. The horse demonstrates control of the cow for two minutes. This class is a stepping stone up or down for exhibitors. Novice riders can expand their boxing skills by building confidence from boxing and controlling the cow at the opposite end of the arena, without the fast paced fence turn found in the full cow horse pattern.
Exhibitors that have competed in the full cow horse class
may have a new horse or reach an age that they are unable to compete in the full cow horse pattern. This class gives them a place to step back and build confidence with their horse.
Open and Non-Pro Working Cow Horse Class is the full
pattern where the horse boxes the cow, completes fence
turns in each direction, and then the rider makes the
decision whether they want to circle the cow each way once
or rope and stop the cow. During this class the rider has
three minutes to complete the required maneuvers, but it
may be completed in less time.
ASHA Judging is very unique to the horse industry. Scoring
is based on a positive scale, with a score of 1-10 given for
each maneuver. A maneuver score of 6-7 is considered
correct, and the scores will go up and down from there.
Credits and deductions are used to adjust the score, based
on the content and quality of the maneuver. ASHA
maintains a comment box instead of a penalty box,
including a translation key on the scorecard that
communicates to the exhibitor deductions and also credits.
This helps the participant decipher their scores for each
maneuver.
Scoring is positive and straight forward, which will encourage growth and improvement while enhancing the experience for the exhibitor. Maneuver scores give the rider a truer benchmark for their skill sets. And the most