DELLROSE, Tennessee - Marco Formentin, a nationally respected professional reining horse competitor and trainer, will offer a clinic in the Western style precision riding in a covered arena in ...

Long ago, cowboys would have casual competitions with one another to see whose horse was a more willing and better partner. Over the years, these contests grew into a world-wide sport called “reining.

Reining is a judged event in which the rider leads the horse through intricate patterns in a show pen. The judges instruct riders to follow one of 10 complex patterns a rider must memorize.