Together they have three children: 16-year-old Kaydence, 4-year-old Creed, and a new baby girl named Journey. In 2017, Jackie married Charly Crawford, a 10-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier in heading.
In addition to training top-level horses, she continues to ride horses for some of the best cowboys in the business. Since then, Jackie Hobbs-Crawford has continued to excel on the rodeo and roping scene. By the time Jackie graduated with her business degree, she had three consecutive NIRA Southwest Region champion breakaway roping titles under her belt. She was the Oklahoma High School Breakaway Roping Champion, won her first National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA) national breakaway roping title as well as a national women’s team title at Vernon College, and was part of a second national champion women’s team and was Reserve National Champion Breakaway Roper at Tarleton State University.
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Twenty-time Women’s Professional Rodeo Association World Champion Jackie Hobbs-Crawford of Jackie Crawford Roping has a lifetime in speed events and roping. Follow Horse Radio Network on Twitter or follow Horses In The Morning on Facebook.īreakaway Roping with Jackie Hobbs-Crawford Photo by RC Photography That forward momentum you get from allowing your horse to start walking in the box keeps him leaving flat and moving forward.įor more with Lari Dee Guy, visit LariDeeGuyRoping.There’s an App for that! Check out the new Horse Radio Network app for iPhone and Android. Sometimes in the practice pen I like to let my horses start to walk forward slowly out of the box, then as the calf leaves I drop my hand and squeeze my legs, cuing my horse that he can then leave hard. When your horse is really listening to those two cues, take that work into the box and do the same thing. If you’d like, you can do this exercise in a corner to simulate the feeling of being in a box, but anywhere will do. Then, drop your hand really quick and squeeze with your legs, teaching him to move forward off of those two important cues. Hold him with tension on the reins so he’s on the bridle. In the practice pen, hold your horse still. Teaching your horse to leave flat off of your hand is key. That will take away that good, flat start you need. Your horse has to be responsive to the bridle, otherwise he’ll pop up when you pull on him. when you pull he pops up or tosses his head, you aren’t going to get a good start. If your horse isn’t responding properly to your hand, i.e. Because the length of the score and your timing leaving the box varies from situation to situation, your horse has to be on the bridle and listening to your hand and feet to know when to leave. Very generally, you let the calf make the first move, then you and your horse move. My secret to a great start in breakaway roping (and any kind of roping, for that matter) is training my horses to really score and react off my hand. Everything we do goes back to horsemanship and keeping your horse really broke, and the start is no exception.
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