Team roping is still a common practice on ranches even today.
This true team event requires cooperation between cowboys and their horses. The chase begins and the header must make one of three legal catches on the steer - around both horns, around one horn and the head, or around the neck. Any other catch by the header is considered illegal and the team is disqualified. After the header makes his catch, he turns the steer's hind legs to his partner, the heeler. The heeler must rope both of the steer's hind legs in one of the most difficult maneuvers in rodeo.