Cody Patterson goes over his bridle collection

Cody Patterson works on steering a bridle horse before the NRCHA Celebration of Champions

Cody Patterson tunes on the run down and stopping with a bridle horse before the NRCHA Celebration of Champions

Cody Patterson works a bridle horse on a cow and focuses on the balance of letting the horse have responsibility and accepting rider input.

Cody Patterson shows a warm up on a young horse to control the shoulders and hips and introduce the two track. This also helps prepare for lead changes and lope departures.

Cody uses the flag to help teach Keri that the flag is what is making her move so that she doesn't depend on Cody as much for help and can start watching and reading the flag and move herself.

Cody shows how he starts teaching a young horse to follow the nose and use that to teach the first cross over steps for the turn around.

Cody starts adding a frame for a young horse to live inside at the lope to help start the process of getting a collected lope.

Cody gives a lesson to Wyatt on his own 2 year old. They work on steering at the lope and moving the shoulders to get a horse to carry themselves.

Cody schools a youth horse that has a tendency to drop its back and shoulders and let its front legs get far out in front of itself in the turn around.

Cody demonstrates how he begins teaching a young horse to cross over in the front end to start teaching the turn around. 

Cody works on the reining as a warm up to work a cow. He focuses on getting the horse soft and responsive.

Cody prepares a youth horse by keeping control and correctness on the cow. He wants to get her to slow down and thinking about what she is doing instead of just being fast and out of control.

Cody works an older horse and focuses on getting the horse to rate from different positions around the arena.

Cody shows how he starts to teach a young horse to run down towards the end of the two year old year.