The Ohio Top Hands Rodeo Drill Team was rounded up in 1998 by Ginger Ryals, the team captain and choreographer.  This team has performed for PRCA, IPRA and high school rodeos, live orchestras, and some of the largest horse expositions in the world.  The team this year has performed for The Can-Am Equine Emporium in Truro, Nova Scotia; performed for The Buckeye Stampede PRCA Rodeo in Dover, Ohio; won "Best Mounted Unit" in the Kentucky Derby Festival Pegasus Parade, and just now finished riding for The Dayton Horse Show at the Montgomery Fairgrounds in Dayton, Ohio, the 94th running of a benefit charity horse show.

The Ohio Top Hands are looking for a few good riders to add to the team for the 2009 tour year. If you have a good, western-going horse and transportation to and from practices at The Greene County Fairgrounds in Xenia, Ohio, give us a call or send an email to the Captain, Ginger Ryals, at tophand@earthlink.net

Ginger Ryals, Captain

The Ohio Top Hands owe a debt of gratitude to their sponsors, for their assistance and faith and encouragement.   The Ginger Horse, The Peter Stone Company, Rod's Western Palace, and Gist Silversmiths.  Our horses are in superior health and shine thanks to Tiz Whiz Feeds, the leading edge of horse nutrition.   We know the difference.

No other team in the United States performs a drill with the level of technical difficulty that The Ohio Top Hands ride.  We are proud of that, and can hear in the voice of the audiences, that they are proud of it, too.  We owe much thanks to the teams that went before us, the ones that blazed the trail, and the people who lead and organize them.

Our sister team is the California Cowgirls, in Sacramento, California. Captained by Sara Curtis, the California Cowgirls and the Ohio Top Hands cover the Western and Eastern halves of The United States.

The Ohio Top Hands.  Because all of America is the Western frontier.