Fort Worth Herd to be Featured on RFD-TV's Chris Cox Horsemanship Tuesday, March 2

TV Show Highlights Cattle Drive's Importance to the History of Fort Worth

WHO:  The Fort Worth Herd Kristin Jaworski, Trail Boss, Fort Worth Herd

WHAT: The Fort Worth Convention & Visitors Bureau is pleased to announce that the Fort Worth Herd will be featured on an episode of "Chris Cox Horsemanship" broadcast on RFD-TV.  The show tells the story of the history of cattle drives and their importance to Fort Worth. In addition, the show explains the role of each of the drovers, their authentic wardrobe and tack, and the challenge of a twice-daily cattle drive down the brick streets of the Fort Worth Stockyards.  The show also features Cox offering pointers to the drovers and working with drovers regarding equine questions. "This is truly an honor for the Fort Worth Herd and our city," said Pam Minick, marketing director, Billy Bob's Texas and vice-chairman of the Fort Worth CVB's Board of Directors. "By being featured on 'Chris Cox Horsemanship,' the message about how Fort Worth celebrates our authentic Western history and way of life will reach an international audience.  I encourage everyone to watch this exciting show."

WHEN: Tuesday, March 2, 2010

WHERE:  12:30 pm Central and 10:30 pm Central RFD-TV

WHY: Chris Cox, host of "Chris Cox Horsemanship," is one of the world's top horse trainers and clinicians.  He is a two-time winner of the prestigious Road to the Horse colt-training competition.  He holds innumerable clinics across the country each year and offers multiple levels of horsemanship training at his ranch outside Mineral Wells. RFD-TV, an independent ten-year-old cable network, part of Rural Media Group, is the only television network that serves the Rural Lifestyle marketplace 24 hours a day. RFD-TV's high quality family-oriented programming covers four core interest areas' Agricultural News and Information, Equine and Western Lifestyle, Music and Entertainment and Rural Lifestyle. Viewers can find RFD TV at Channel 345 on Direct TV, 231 on Dish Network, and 247 on Verizon. The network is also offered on various Comcast, Charter, Cox, Time Warner, and other cable providers.  The show can also be seen on cable providers in Great Britain.

Fort Worth Herd from Chris Cox on Vimeo.

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Chris' Bio:

Chris Cox' entire life has been influenced by his relationship with the horse. He moved with his ranching family from Florida when he wasn't yet two-years-old, to an island off the coast of northeast Australia to raise cattle. During his time on the 100-square-mile Prince of Wales Island, and while he worked as a hand on numerous ranches on the mainland in the years that followed, the horse served as work partner, transportation, entertainment and even companionship for Cox.

While Australia shaped the young Cox, it was with an eye toward returning to the United States that he honed his horsemanship skills competing in Pony Club, camp drafting (similar to working cow horse), and working for large ranches. He started his first colt in his early teens and went on to excel in his horsemanship studies at Longreach Pastoral College. His dream was to find a way to make a living working with horses - preferably in the United States.

At eighteen, he took the first step to fulfilling that dream and headed back to America. Following some ranch work in Florida, Cox began training mustangs for the Bureau of Land Management. Throughout the '80s and '90s Cox took in horses to train and began to devise what has become his trademark program - a step-by-step progression of skills for all levels of horsemen to improve their horsemanship.

His program has proved to be immensely popular with people of all ages and skill levels. It requires no gimmicks or special equipment but rather commitments to understanding the horse, devoting time, self-examination and honesty about one's own limitations.

With his Chris Cox Horsemanship television show on RFD TV, the nationwide Ride the Journey^SM Tour stops and appearances at equine expos and events, Cox has touched the lives of many a horse enthusiast and shown them there's a straight-forward, practical way to gain a better relationship with their horses. Those who saw him win back-to-back championships at the 2007 and 2008 Road to the Horse Colt Starting contests witnessed the effectiveness of his methods and his clear passion for horses.

Cox is not only a successful clinician; he trains and competes at the highest levels of cutting horse competition. At his ranch he often has over twenty horses in training even as he juggles his demanding clinic, touring and competition schedules.

At his Diamond Double C Ranch near Mineral Wells, Texas, Cox offers progressive six-day horsemanship clinics several times a year. Chris also offers nationwide three-day clinics to make it even easier for those throughout the country to get first-hand instruction directly from him.

He and wife Barb welcomed their first child, Charlie in late October of 2008 and their son Case in January of 2010.

To learn more about Chris, click here to read the FREE preview of the first chapter of his book "Ride the Journey^SM

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