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 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 Chris 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, 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 the age of eighteen, Chris Cox took the first step to fulfilling that dream and headed back to America. Following some ranch work in Florida, Chris Cox began training mustangs for the Bureau of Land Management. Throughout the ’80s and ’90s Chris 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 very 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 Come Ride the Journey Tour stops and appearances at equine expos and events, Cox has touched the lives of many horse enthusiasts and shown them that 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 Road to the Horse Colt Starting contests of 2007 and 2008 witnessed the effectiveness of his methods and his clear passion for horses.
2008 marked Chris cox’ second consecutive win at the prestigious Road to the Horse Colt Starting Event.
Chris Cox is not only a successful clinician; he trains and competes at the highest levels of cutting edge horse competitions. 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, Chris Cox offers progressive six-day horsemanship clinics several times a year. And in 2008 Chris Cox added nationwide three-day clinics to make it even easier for those throughout the country to get first-hand instruction directly from him.
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