Barrel Racing

Keep your barrel horse sharp with Shali Lord's off-pattern work.

Practice collection and control to achieve powerful turns with your horse.

We’re all in the storm, just in different boats.

Gain control of your confidence to have success in the arena with a strong mental game.

Professional barrel racer Shali Lord breaks down the basics of barrel racing and talks about different turning styles.

Expand your barrel-racing knowledge as Shali Lord talks about tack and gear.

Half a decade. 60 months. Five years. This is how long it took me to accomplish a short-term goal.

Learn about Shali Lord's favorite bits.

Watch to see how Shali Lord starts her horses on the barrel racing pattern.

Teach your horse basic skills before starting him on the barrel pattern.

In this episode we read you a profile on barrel racer Sherry Cervi.

Get to know the editors of Horse&Rider and co-hosts of The Ride podcast in this unique episode of The Ride.

When all seems to be going wrong in the world, there’s one place I feel I can let my mind be carefree and feel like the world stops for a moment—the back of a horse.

This episode of The Ride highlights 10x National Finals Rodeo qualifier Molly Powell's mare Pecan.

Kylar Terlip will be taking over Horse&Rider's Instagram, so we thought you might like to get to know her beforehand.

This is the final blog for this journey to RFD-TV's The American and a difficult one for my pride to share.

In this blog I’ll give a rundown of my horse’s tack and gear, as well as the pre-race products that I use.

In my previous blog I mentioned my horse and having faith in her abilities, but there’s more to her story that I think you might enjoy hearing.

Follow along as I blog about my journey to RFD-TV’s The American.

Did you know that Horse&Rider's assistant editor and host of The Ride podcast Michaela Jaycox will be competing at RFD-TV's The American Semi-Finals?

KR Famous Tequilla started his career as a racehorse but switched paths and found himself racing down the alley of the Thomas and Mack Center at the 2019 NFR.

Amberley Snyder explains how she became a public speaker and the importance of telling your own stories as a speaker.

Amberley Snyder explains how she started doing everyday tasks and riding after her accident.

Amberley has become successful in having good hands that can makeup for three other limbs when she is riding her horse.