As to cutters, regardless of their name and I'm not one, my understanding is that a cutting competition is a test of the horse rather than the rider like reining would be (although one can't do that with an untrained hoss).

Is it not true that a cutting competitor is expressly NOT ALLOWED to touch the reins once a steer is cut from the herd until it is released or time runs out?


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