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Location: Texas | I had a lefty who would do that as well. I found usually when he did that, we were either rolling too hard to the first barrel from the alley, or we were too tight coming into the barrel and cut out our pocket.
My horse was ratey too and it never made sense why he would do that. I made sure to really shape in the alley and start correct, and give him the right amount of room going in. That combined with sitting and saying whoa did the trick.
When I would slow work I would stop at the same spot every time, shift my weight back and get a pattern of muscle memory down. That way at the same spot every time, we rated down. Then I would at least double wrap the barrel keeping him round and keeping enough room around the barrel (like how Dena K does it in her videos) with his inside hind leg driving around. If their shoulder is pointing at the barrel, or "if their shoulder gets to the barrel first" they have no option but to either go past the barrel, or hit the barrel. I would always make sure I "kept the barrel behind my leg" when I would slow work and it helped. |
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