How Do You Compete In A Team Penning Event?
Team penning requires teamwork, well-trained horses and a love of speed. Get a team together. You’ll need three riders and three horses. Ride a well-trained horse. Team penning horses will generally be of stock type, but any horse can pen. Count 30 head of cattle in a herd. Each cow is numbered 0 to 9 on its back. There are three cows of each number. Start at one end of the arena. When the judge says the timer is ready, all three riders will ride toward the herd at the opposite end of the arena. Pass the start line and the announcer will call out a number, 0 to 9. Know that in team penning, the idea is to take three cows with the number called out by the announcer, then separate them from the rest of the herd and move them into a pen at the other end of the arena. Get all three cows with that number and bring them back to the pen within 2 1/2 minutes. Don’t let more than five cows of other numbers cross the start line or your team will be disqualified. Realize that if you get any cows
