Matt Mills to challenge Cole Cameron in Road to the Horse MATT MILLS March 24-27

Founded in 2003, Road to the Horse strives to entertain and educate fans in the art of natural horsemanship. Road to the Horse challenges the world’s best equestrians to build a partnership with an untrained 3-year-old American Quarter Horse from the Four Sixes Ranch, across three intense days of competition. Fans witness the entire journey, from colt selection to the final obstacle challenge. The event features a $100,000 purse and competitors battle it out for horsemanship’s most coveted title. Road to the Horse 2022 will take place on March 24-27 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky.

COLE CAMERON

Cole Cameron

The real deal, Cole Cameron was raised in the cowboy and western way of life. Born in Arizona, raised in Texas and son to world champion and Hall of Fame cowboy Craig Cameron, Cole has spent his life on family ranches in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. He was always a top student, as well as a highly gifted athlete. Cole was a standout 3-sport athlete in High school, earning all-district honors in football, winning a state championship and earning a scholarship to play college football at Texas A&M University. Upon graduating with his bachelors in Agriculture at Texas A&M, Cole decided to pursue Graduate school earning a rodeo scholarship and a spot on the Texas A & M rodeo team. Cole competed two years for the Texas A&M Rodeo team and competed twice at the College National Finals in Casper, Wyoming. After finishing his college rodeo career, Cole continued to follow his rodeo dream on the pro circuit. In 2011, he won the Cowboys Professional Rodeo Association in Steer Wrestling. Cole, who is now a highly competitive team roper, lives and works at the family Double Horn Ranch, near Stephenville, Texas, with his parents Craig and Dalene. Cole has worked with some of the top horse trainers over the years and has competed in multiple disciplines including, cutting, team roping, and reined cow horse, and will compete in this year’s RTTH Wild Card. Cole teaches alongside his Dad at many Horse Expos and Clinics and this past year traveled to five countries and sixteen States conducting horsemanship clinics on his own. 2020 proves to be even busier for Cole as he again travels Nationally and Internationally teaching the Ride Smart method that has been passed down the Cameron family from father to son. Cole is following in his father’s footsteps, helping people worldwide to develop great horses and horsemanship, while keeping the western and cowboy way of life alive and well.

Matt Mills

Arizona horseman, Matt Mills began riding horses at an early age. He enjoyed a successful career as a youth, earning multiple championships throughout California in a variety of disciplines including western pleasure, horsemanship and trail. In 1996 he switched his focus to reining and a few years later established his own training operation in Scottsdale, Arizona. He currently produces videos and has an online training series. He also trains and shows futurity and derby horses and coaches several successful nonpro and youth riders. His most memorable COLE CAMERON accomplishment was fifteen years ago winning the 2006 USEF Open Reining Championship with a career-high score of 231.5. That qualified him to be a member of Team USA that proudly brought home the gold medal from the World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Aachen, Germany. In 2020 Matt was recognized for having $1,000,000 in NRHA lifetime earnings. He is regularly a finalist at major NRHA events and has received several titles including MATT MILLS NRHA Intermediate Open Futurity Reserve Champion.

BRANDI LYONS

Brandi Lyon’s posted biography reports no show record in professional competiton. Her philopophy of love and respect as a foundation for training horses will be tested in this competition.

Brandi Lyons