Bulldogging

Bulldogging is a rodeo? sport where a steer? is released from a chute and a horse mounted rider chases the steer, jumps off of the horse next to the steer, and wrestles the steer to the ground by twisting its horns.

The preferred method of wrestling the steer to the ground is to lean from the galloping horse which is running beside the steer, transferring the weight of the upper body to the neck of the steer, with one hand on the near horn of the steer and the far horn grasped in the crook of the other elbow. One then drops one's feet from the horse, digging the heels into the ground in front of the steer, to cause a braking action to bring the animal to a stop. Twisting the head of the steer toward one by pushing down with the near hand and pulling up and in with the far elbow, causes the steer to become unbalanced and fall to the ground.

Rules of the sport include: The bulldogger's horse must not break the rope barrier in front of it at the beginning of a run, but must wait for the animal escaping from the adjacent chute to release the rope. If the steer stumbles or falls before the bulldogger brings it down, he must either wait for it to rise or help it up before wrestling it to the ground.

Bill Picket invented the sport of bulldogging in 19??.