Team roping also known as heaing and heeling is a rodeo event that features a steer (typically a Corriente) and two mounted cowboys or cowgirls. The first roper is referred to as the "header," the person who ropes the front of the steer, usually around the horns; the second is the "heeler," who ropes the steer by its hind feet. Team roping is the only rodeo event where men and women compete equally together, in either single gender or mixed gender teams. Cowboys originally developed this technique on working ranches when it was necessary to capture and restrain a full-grown animal.