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Location: WI | Just wondering on average how often you hit barrels. Sometimes I get really down, but then I don't know if it is just part of the game??
eta: I checked 1 out of 5
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Hungarian Midget Woman
 
Location: Midwest | The only times I hit are when I run my horse over the barrel lol. He's more of a free runner, so I'm not having to push him past, I'm usually having to make sure he rates. |
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Expert
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Location: WI | Fun Fact, at the 2013 WFNR 47 out of 150 runs had downed barrels.
That is 1.56 out of 5 hit barrels. |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | I usually do fairly well, but for me the reason my mare is hitting is my lack of experience in myself. I am fairly new to the sport. And it doesn't help that she is a push style horse so I have to drive her past or else she'll turn and cut off that dang barrel. I went this past weekend and both days I tipped. I was ready to sell everything by the time Sunday came around because evidently I don't know how to ride a horse! LOL!! |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Never, but that's probably because I don't ride :) |
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Location: WI | Girls_Gotta_Jet - 2014-07-14 2:00 PM I usually do fairly well, but for me the reason my mare is hitting is my lack of experience in myself. I am fairly new to the sport. And it doesn't help that she is a push style horse so I have to drive her past or else she'll turn and cut off that dang barrel. I went this past weekend and both days I tipped. I was ready to sell everything by the time Sunday came around because evidently I don't know how to ride a horse! LOL!!
That's how I feel! I drove 2hrs, paid $100 to make 1 run, and hit a dang barrel. I just hate it!! |
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Well last weekend I ran at four rodeos, hit two barrels, ducked the second twice (same two runs we hit the first barrel on), won one rodeo and was two spots out of money at the other rodeo on a different horse. Over the 4th of July, I made 8 runs on 3 different horses (1 ran once, 1 ran twice, 3rd horse ran 5 times) and only hit one barrel (horse that ran twice and it was all my fault).
I don't hit many on my two older horses, and I'd been keeping them up on Cliff outdoors until Friday night. Now he's decided to rate 1st on his own so I need to start sending him instead of holding him back and checking before the barrel. We hit a ton indoors including all 3 in the same run one day. |
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Location: Mississippi | I had gotten into an ugly trend recently of hitting at least one every run! Thankfully I broke that pattern this weekend and had 2 clean runs. I do know though that it is always my fault when we hit - still trying to learn how to ride my new guy |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | 2 to date this year......:)
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Location: SE KS | Do you mean just hit them or knock them over?? I have hit them, but have yet to knock one over this year!!!
Although Poles is another story!!!!!!!!!! I have a bruise on each knee to prove that!!!!!
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| I usually don't. My horse got mad at 1 show this year and completely took out 3rd. My knee is still numb. And Saturday when he brought his hind legs up to push out of second his big ol booty caught 2nd. My leg was past that one! But for the most part if I'm pushing and riding, I don't knock. |
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| Rarely, and I run several different horses. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Anywhere my horses are ! Lost in Texas!!!!! | Hey,it happens sometimes |
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 Texas Lone Star
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Location: where ever my L/Q trl is parked | Well, if your fairly new to racing, maybe think of attending a barrel clinic. There are some great clinician out there and one is bound to help you. I recommend Ed Wright, he's helped me out so much in the pass especially when I was having some issues with a particular horse. Good luck- |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | I selected 2 out of 5. I've only ran 3 horses over the years, and the first two I never hit barrels on (one was ratey the other was free), I could probably count on one hand the number of barrels I hit between the two of them.
My new mare was another story, for the first year I ran her I hit a barrel almost every run. But now that I have her figured out we rarely hit barrels. |
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 Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I seriously question the almost never votes. I think almost never is impossible in this game. But I still couldn't choose any of the other options. I would say 1 out of every ten runs. It is very rare that I bump on my good horse but it does happen. Especially in small indoor pens where the run to the first is super short. If he doesn't have enough speed built up going into it he will drag it coming out.
Still....I doubt the almost never votes....EVERYBODY hits a barrel at some point. My hauling partner ran the fast time of some races at least four different times that I can recall in the last year, only to DQ on a knock. |
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| My paint I had in 4 years + of rodeos I never knocked once. I went to one jp and demloished a barrel though, I pointed him right at it and he ran right at it, got a bleeding nose and everything. I suck at jackpots. He was a pretty easy horse to ride went where you told him to, he was not "free" but he never shut down either.
My mare im almost ready to run, I can see hitting alot of barrels if I quit riding her, she's very push style and very much wants to role back over top of them. Im just working on keeping her nice and round before I acatualy run. :-) hopefuly this fall!! |
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Location: SE Louisiana | I hit them every time they run me through one of those DUI checkpoints...... and I'm totally sober every time. I do it on purpose.. they hate me.... |
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 Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | komet. - 2014-07-14 4:41 PM I hit them every time they run me through one of those DUI checkpoints...... and I'm totally sober every time. I do it on purpose.. they hate me....
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| So far...haven't knocked a barrel since November of last year.
Just don't ask me how fast we go....
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The Advice Guru
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| missroselee - 2014-07-14 5:24 PM
I seriously question the almost never votes. I think almost never is impossible in this game. But I still couldn't choose any of the other options. I would say 1 out of every ten runs. It is very rare that I bump on my good horse but it does happen. Especially in small indoor pens where the run to the first is super short. If he doesn't have enough speed built up going into it he will drag it coming out.
Still....I doubt the almost never votes....EVERYBODY hits a barrel at some point. My hauling partner ran the fast time of some races at least four different times that I can recall in the last year, only to DQ on a knock.
My old barrel horse who I ran for 11 years who was a 1d placer or winner 8 of those years knocked 2 barrels in his entire career.
My last years derby horse, I ran him 2 years and he only knocked 1
I would say all the horses I have raised and trained on average each horse knocked maybe a max of 4 times in their career most I have ran more then 3 years before selling.
Myself I have probably knocked less then 20 barrels so far in my lifetime.
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 More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I might hit one a year and that's running up to 3 horses. |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | Aqhaczy - 2014-07-14 4:10 PM Well, if your fairly new to racing, maybe think of attending a barrel clinic. There are some great clinician out there and one is bound to help you. I recommend Ed Wright, he's helped me out so much in the pass especially when I was having some issues with a particular horse. Good luck-
This is my goal for next year. I got married this year, so clinics were out for me this year. But I do have some great resources in people that I go with too!! They are very honest about my mistakes. LOL!! |
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Location: WI | Aqhaczy - 2014-07-14 4:10 PM Well, if your fairly new to racing, maybe think of attending a barrel clinic. There are some great clinician out there and one is bound to help you. I recommend Ed Wright, he's helped me out so much in the pass especially when I was having some issues with a particular horse. Good luck- I'm not new to racing, just in a slump I guess! I've been entered 18 races this year and hit barrels in 4 of them. 2 were at my geldings first 2 rodeos and he's scared of the crowd and bucking chutes, so cuts into the barrels. Seasoning, ugh!
I'm also surprised at the number that voted almost never, before this I was looking at the NFR girls and only 3 out of 15 girls had 10 clean runs, so that made me feel a little better.
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | The horse I'm running now, 4 out of 5 runs. At least. LOL When we knock them down, it's almost always leaving and usually his hip. When we leave them standing, he peels paint and cuts my knees. We will get it eventually...putting a shadow roll on him has helped tremendously with getting him further into the turn before he sets. Last weekend, he actually ran off with me, which is out of character, but I think because his fused hock that came unfused is bothering him again. I think that's the first run we've made that we didn't at least touch a barrel.  |
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The Advice Guru
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| linds - 2014-07-15 9:44 AM
Aqhaczy - 2014-07-14 4:10 PM Well, if your fairly new to racing, maybe think of attending a barrel clinic. There are some great clinician out there and one is bound to help you. I recommend Ed Wright, he's helped me out so much in the pass especially when I was having some issues with a particular horse. Good luck- I'm not new to racing, just in a slump I guess! I've been entered 18 races this year and hit barrels in 4 of them. 2 were at my geldings first 2 rodeos and he's scared of the crowd and bucking chutes, so cuts into the barrels. Seasoning, ugh!
I'm also surprised at the number that voted almost never, before this I was looking at the NFR girls and only 3 out of 15 girls had 10 clean runs, so that made me feel a little better.
I would put the NFR girls in a different category, as they are running generally the same horse in the same arena on not the greatest ground for 10 consecutive days. And trying to be the fastest.
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Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I wonder if there is any correlation between knocked barrels and what division is being run in. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | I thought that's the whole idea....see how far you can knock 'em. |
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 Born not Made
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Location: North Dakota | My old horse Beau knocked over just ONE barrel in his entire barrel racing career. And it was a "freak" thing where he hit it with his nose somehow on the backside of the turn. He was SO honest.
So far this year, Red has hit one barrel on 4 runs, and they've been my fault. I need to make sure I do my part.
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| missroselee - 2014-07-15 2:59 PM
I wonder if there is any correlation between knocked barrels and what division is being run in.
I think there is... the more power the harder to ride sometimes! |
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 Shelter Dog Lover
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| I hit a lot but am getting better. Starting on horses that are fast and powerful made me clamp down way too soon getting ready for the turns, a bad habit that I now have to break. |
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How often do you hit barrels?