Rancho Santa Margarita Reata Roping

Los Angeles was the destination for caravans from Santa Fe the New Mexicans came in the fall when the grasses were coming up Los Angeles even though it wasn't very large at that time became quite a capital for obtaining mules there were lots of horses and jacks that graze in the wintertime with all that grass the Ranchos covered a good share of the coastal area with many many horses but Armijo arrived in California he probably noticed everyone riding horses it was said a true California did not walk if he could ride cattle were raised for the hide and tallow trade and ran wild on the open range to handle them Vaqueros needed horses trained to obey the right even if it required getting within roping range of a grizzly by the time Armijo arrived in 1826 they had a reputation as the best horseman of the time the Vaqueros were proud of their skills and competitions were frequent today Californios still show off the Reata ropings we're at Santa Margarita they're having red or open stock horse today a lot of the old style skills that they're keeping alive and it's a it's a great deal it's a lot of fun California style is more of the Spanish style and this event they wanted us to cut two animals out of that herd they'll point us on how we work together they give you ten minutes and catch and put monogrammed please come inside ah it's just got a half what California just with reata's head and heel is easy and slow it's about how we do he's in hackmore he's five years old and I'm going to start progressing him on into varietal I'm from Ojai California I've got a Gary feels hit that great mouthpiece in it Jordy the good bridle up horses there's a lot of space bits on it though is just easier on them and it's more control it just softening in the mouth I could put him in a spade bit he'll just take anything I have just wrong I broke it out got her what Carol rope style door open got a letter slide more to the big lot easier Napoleon a nylon and it takes a lot more than this to you my name is adria i'm from Moorpark California I'm a weekend warrior means I help my neighbors we're never going to need help Brandi's or gatherers or cows are out or anything like that adrian is working with a riad I love it it's good weight in your hand it's smooth it drapes got its own personality get you out of just right it just does things that are poly or a nylon won't move I got interested when I met my husband about six years ago the hardest thing I've ever done just for me it's really hard just to learn the different swings on the different loop I just started practicing with the Houlihan I've always done inside arm up up until now occasionally I go day work with my boyfriend who works at - home ranch other than that I teach high school I'm growing up my uncle had a farm in Idaho and I would help them gather cattle and I've always had a passion I'm Steve okay that's Malachi's Annette molto smooth we're looking at at bruising or bark n yo bit and a really neat copies at it it's dull that goes with it well initially we'd like the big buckles but now that I've got it in my hands and I got a hold of it it's got these two crickets and their iron crickets with copper inlays and they sing pretty nice you get them going together I like that those copper barrels are neat plus the bits beveled really nice on the inside it's pretty cool it's finally able to get one of Bruce's bits and this year this last year and I got a horse it's ready to go into terrain and he's been riding for about three months in the terrain it's fun to get him to that point this is a rawhide hackamore and it's a nose band hangs around a horse's face it communicates with the horse through pressure you when you're using a hackle more you tie it with a set of hair reins and you create a little bit of space for the horse to move into on one side then you put a little pressure on them with the other side to ask him to move and then when he moves over there you take that pressure off this mikata is a hair rope it is 22 feet long it is made out of horse mane hair recycling is really important as responsible stewards of the land the buckaroos have been at it for a long time we were cycle everything cows horses everything and this particular horse has been recycled into this hair rope this rope now is going to be tied into a set of reins and a lead and I tie and untie this thing every day bill black put me onto that years ago he says well you take your boots off at night don't you give your feet a rest it makes sense that a guy ought to take his McCarty off every night shoot it doesn't take too much time to tie it in the morning and you're going to take four years and six years to make a bridle horse anyway there's no sense being in a big hurry about getting going in the morning when the horse is ready for a bit but they care we'll need a set of Lamoure rings we've all hydrangeas Romel kangaroo buttons on that's the rimmel part it's just like a court something to urge the horse a little bit they're made to go on a bit they put chains between the end of them and a bit so when the horse gets his head in the water II don't get the rings what because rawhide gets a little different when it gets wet they're hard to get over a horse's head you're not supposed to take them off to the saddle horn and they get off suppose to have a lead built to lead your horse with it these are bits I made Fresnel some people call it a half a heart in other words that be half there and there have to be here this is a santa barbara style right here this is a spade bit not too many people using them today most of them are using this this type of a mouthpiece here isn't just a bit that you could put on a real broke horse he rides real light because of the mouthpiece sonority that chief come out of Mexico and they're usually one piece of this sweeps back Santa Susana they call him here I guess because they start in Santa Susana I don't know before my time in the old days they said in this country that you could write a visalia you could write Hamley you could write a porter because they were so well made saddles and held together but the Visalia California style was we call it were always the most beautiful the carving the skill the craftsman Spanish influence they liked a little bit of silver these horns in Wade tree are all wood carved into the fork the horn wrapped on their saddle is typical it's called mule hide but it's for protection of the horn itself to give a base for your galleys to turn Oh you

Channel: Vaquero Series

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Keywords: Horsegear, Horsemanship, Roping, Team Roping, Saddles, Calf Roping, Horses, Cowboys, Buckaroos, Santa Margarita California

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Length: 7min 56sec (476 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 06 2014