Ride Smart with Craig Cameron

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Craig Cameron grew up dreaming of being a cowboy.He went to high school in Houston, TX where he excelled in football and track, but Craig was always most at home 100 miles west at the family's 1,700 acre cattle ranch. In high school, Craig entered open rodeos in Texas with no formal training and competed in all the rough stock events. After high school, Craig moved to the family ranch where he learned the ranching business from the famous Texas Ranger family, the Hamers. He loved traditional ranching methods always using horses in the operation to work, move, and handle the cattle. While living on the ranch, Craig pursued his rodeo career, earned his PRCA card, and lived the rodeo life for almost two decades. During this period, Craig specialized in bull riding and traveled all over the United States, Canada, and Mexico. He was competing in the biggest rodeos in the world including Houston, Fort Worth, Cheyenne, Calgary, and many more.

Craig grew up watching the rough and tumble methods of horse breaking and training in the 1950's and 60's. Craig didn't believe, or "cotton to," the unnecessary rough treatment these horses received. As a young man, Craig was in an era when clinicians and horsemanship schools were nonexistent. Equitation skills were guarded and kept secret. Craig's education was gained from the one element you cannot buy and no one can give you- experience. Taking on problem horses from local ranchers, he began using a slower more natural approach that seemed to work. Clients would get their horse’s back and be puzzled by the incredible transition that had taken place in such a short time. People wanted to come watch the magic at work. Craig said, "When I started making them pay, they really started listening."

Then Craig heard about a man named Ray Hunt who advocated working with the horse, not against him. Craig followed in Ray Hunt's trail and became one of the "original clinicians," filming his first video in 1985. Now, Craig performs his magic to horse enthusiasts all over the world. He travels almost 90,000 miles and 44 weeks a year. Craig is called the Public Defender of the horse; in addition he hosts the increasingly popular Ride Smart on RFD-TV, which has brought him even more popularity. Each season on RFD-TV Craig, the veteran of originality, has an exciting new format giving you new solutions to age-old problems.

Craig Cameron keeps the cowboy way alive and well each day. Although Craig is most noted for his innovative horsemanship skills and exciting teaching techniques, he is also an incredible woodsman and hunter. Craig has received many awards: American Cowboy Culture Award for the Working Cowboy, Western Equestrian Award, Culver Riding Academy Hall of Fame, and was honored by being adopted by the Crow Indian Nation and given the name "Captures Many Horses" for his work with the Crow Indians in Montana. He was crowned winner of the 2010 “Championship of Colt Starting”, Road to the Horse. If you know Craig Cameron you know his sense of humor and his trademark laugh that he is well known for at all his clinics, at the ranch and on the road. Craig's clinics called the "Ridingest clinics of them all" are action packed, fast paced, fun and full of information. But the road in many ways seems to still be home to Craig Cameron. After years of rodeo and decades of horsemanship clinics on the road, Craig is still going strong at an age where most men are riding the rocking chair. Craig still starts hundreds of colts and teaches hundreds of classes each year from coast to coast and nation to nation. Craig Cameron may have grown up dreaming of being a cowboy but with his induction into the 2007 Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, people will always say, "He did not just dream it, he lived it."

Contact:

Craig Cameron
PO Box 50
Bluff Dale, TX 76433
800-274-0077
doublehornD@lipan.net
www.craigcameron.com

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