This is the winner of the Freestyle Reining competition at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, this last week. Hope you all can see it. Originally broadcast on EqSports.net
Bub Poplin is a reining and western performance trainer on the Western Slope of Colo in Fruita. I really have not had him on my radar, had heard the name, but WOW !
https://www.facebook.com/EQSportsNet/videos/737006033134302/
Very nice!!! Love his markings. I’d be stabbing myself in the chin or something with that pole.
Outstanding.
He did steal it from the vaqueros, though.
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Outstanding.
He did steal it from the vaqueros, though.[/QUOTE]
You mean from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Y1F_f87F0
Andalusian garrocha, the pole used to work cattle.
Mind you, he doesn’t touch the reins there.
Good guitar play too.
I think I should get one of those poles to remind me not to collapse through my right side. 
Ha…I can hardly walk and carry a broom!
But thanks for sharing, both the reining video and the “original” garrocha were amazing.
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