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 The BHW Book Worm
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| Mr eye opener as a barrel sire.....and GO |
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| I had an own son - NOT impressed. VERY fragile brain. |
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| I think it really depends on what the bottom side is. The MEO's out of Bully daughters have been awesome horses. You have to have something with a lot of sense on the bottom side of a MEO for it to really work as a barrel or using horse. |
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| A couple years ago friend of mine had a 3yr old own son of MEO and was cutting bred on the bottom. LOVED him. Smartest and easiest horse to work with and boy could he run! The only thing is that he could get pretty cold backed at first but he usually wouldn't try anything unless it was frisky outside, she would just lunge him then and he would ride off like an old pro. Not sure where he is now as she had to sell him for personal reasons but if I ever found him I'd buy him in a heartbeat. |
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The BHW Book Worm
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| SKM - 2014-11-17 8:00 AM
I think it really depends on what the bottom side is. The MEO's out of Bully daughters have been awesome horses. You have to have something with a lot of sense on the bottom side of a MEO for it to really work as a barrel or using horse.
Well this is frightening....she is double bred MEO....well sorta MEO on top and Cash treat on bottom who is a full sibling to MEO |
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| Griz - 2014-11-17 6:30 AM
I had an own son - NOT impressed. VERY fragile brain.
Ditto....they are very inconsistent even when they do turn out |
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  Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | I tried two and I don't want another one. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | They make great broodmares. |
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Too busy outside!
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| Mine couldn't remember to turn when he got to the barrel after 3 months of training, we never got past a lope- ick. |
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The BHW Book Worm
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| So I'm gathering people run from them |
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Location: who knows? | I love my MEO! Never cold backed, always willing to give 100%. I would have a barn full!!! |
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Saint Stacey
| Thistle2011 - 2014-11-17 7:26 AM
SKM - 2014-11-17 8:00 AM
I think it really depends on what the bottom side is. The MEO's out of Bully daughters have been awesome horses. You have to have something with a lot of sense on the bottom side of a MEO for it to really work as a barrel or using horse.
Well this is frightening....she is double bred MEO....well sorta MEO on top and Cash treat on bottom who is a full sibling to MEO
We had a few MEO's out of a Royal Quick Dash daughter. They sure could run. But they were pretty fragile minded. The one had to have his blinkers left on for his win picture. I love MEO. But you really need to evaluate on an individual basis, more so than in most cases. |
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Location: North Pole | http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/eye+take+prayer
This is my gelding. He just turned 8. He IS goofy sometimes, but there's not a mean bone in his body. Anything goofy he does is strictly out of fear/insecurity. I just got him back after he spent a year in training with Brenda Mays. He's got a lot of talent and athleticism, and can run a hole in the wind if you're brave enough to ask him to (I'm not yet). He was taken very slowly through training in order to build his confidence and get some of that goofy out of him, and it worked. I'd take another one in a heartbeat, knowing that you will probably have to take everything a bit slower in order to end up with a confident horse. |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | BHW_SECRET_SANTA - 2014-11-17 10:56 AM
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This is my gelding. He just turned 8. He IS goofy sometimes, but there's not a mean bone in his body. Anything goofy he does is strictly out of fear/insecurity. I just got him back after he spent a year in training with Brenda Mays. He's got a lot of talent and athleticism, and can run a hole in the wind if you're brave enough to ask him to (I'm not yet ). He was taken very slowly through training in order to build his confidence and get some of that goofy out of him, and it worked. I'd take another one in a heartbeat, knowing that you will probably have to take everything a bit slower in order to end up with a confident horse.
If you're interested in more info, message Shorty2 - Brenda's mom - she could tell you all about how he was to train, in much more detail than I can. |
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 Guys Just Wanna Have Fun
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Location: OH | MEO is no spring chicken--if he was consistently good as a barrel sire, we'd see more of them out there running. Great racehorse sire though. |
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Location: Ok | SKM - 2014-11-17 8:00 AM I think it really depends on what the bottom side is. The MEO's out of Bully daughters have been awesome horses. You have to have something with a lot of sense on the bottom side of a MEO for it to really work as a barrel or using horse.
Fully agree. Our guy is bred this way and his babies are amazing in mind and ability. We have been impressed. |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | Rode one for a friend. Big overgrown keg of dynamite. Didn't like him at all.
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I had that filly for a year patterning her, loved her to death super talented, a total sweetheart and a looker too. She was no more fragile minded than any normal running bred baby. While she was ornery she was never colt backed, as a 5 year old 2 different youth riders have run her successfully in the youth 1d and open 2d.
I would buy another like her in a second! |
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| Rode an own daughter.....VERY fragile minded. She got sold not long after I bought her. Could cut a hole in the wind but no brains |
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Location: Arkansas | I have one that is really nice. Solid and automatic as they come. Not a goofy bone in his body. He's actually very lazy until he gets down the alley then he can pick up and run. But I really love MEO broodmares. I've had several and they are great producers. Picked a new one up not too long ago and am dying to see what comes out of her. I think it's the same as any line though... It really depends on the bottom side! :) |
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Location: White Mountains of AZ | http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/hanks+runaway+cartel
Is my boys pedigree. Love this horse. Though, I did take longer to really start running him cuz I could see he had a young mind. Which I didn't mind, wasn't in a hurry. But he is such a nice horse with how he moves and turns... training him was just a walk in the park...and he can fly! His dam runs at the races around here, and she is pretty much the same. Never once have I seen her get excited or hot headed. Makes the same 1D run every time...and sweet as can be! |
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Location: Weatherford, Texas | LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE them. I had an own son. Dumb as a box of rocks but once he learned it he was golden. His first time to ever be entered as a 4 year old was at a rodeo in the perf. He did great. Calm cool collected. I sold him and he ended up with a kid. Now I have been giving some lessons to a girl that just got started riding and she was able to purchase him. He needed one time of me getting him far enough in the turn and his shoulder up (after a kid riding him for 5 years) and he was back exactly how I stepped off him when I sold him. The girl that has him now loves him and is placing at the HS rodeos on him with him just loping. Crazy fast but smooth and easy to ride. Run him in an o ring.
He is dumb, but once he learned things he was great. He got ear shy for a bit and tried to become a set back horse but one week with my homemade no set back device and he is golden since.
He is MEO x daughter of First Down Dash out of Merridoc mare.
If I could have 100 of him I would in a heart beat.
** Note- all the ones I have seen (including him) when you were training went through a head shaking phase when you would pull to turn them. He got thru it, but I used more leg to guide him and a light bit and he is fine. With more bit he will still shake his head. But he will flat stop mid run in an o ring so no need for more. |
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Location: White Mountains of AZ | That's how my boy is...super light. I ride him in an O-ring for trails and ranch work, and a wonder gag bit for running. I love my horses light and soft!. And my boys dam is run in a wonder bit as well. Just love it! |
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Location: Kansas | I personally like them, but from the ones I've seen.....they are hott, and easy to blow on the pattern. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: White Mountains of AZ | Hmm that's funny. All the ones I've seen have been so laid back its ridiculous... |
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Location: out in Oklahoma | I have an own daughter of MEO out of an Easily Smashed mare and I LOVE her! She can be a pill and isn't one that I would dare pick a fight with but she learns fast and is willing. I have just recently started her on the pattern and am taking it very slowly. The people who had rode her before me did not care for her at all and said she was too silly but she has been nothing but a sweetheart in the time that I have had her. I guess like anything, its a personal preference thing |
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Location: In My Own Dream Land | Mine is a granddaughter, but holy cow do I love her!!
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Too busy outside!
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| QH<3er - 2014-11-19 8:11 AM Hmm that's funny. All the ones I've seen have been so laid back its ridiculous...
Me too- I had to be constantly peddling the one I had- wore me out! |
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Location: White Mountains of AZ | trickster j - 2014-11-19 5:18 PM
QH<3er - 2014-11-19 8:11 AM Hmm that's funny. All the ones I've seen have been so laid back its ridiculous...
Me too- I had to be constantly peddling the one I had- wore me out!
That's how my boy was as a 2-3 yr old...I had some nice abs and legs from trying to get him to trot...heaven forbid lope!!! :) but as soon as he realized he needed to get his butt in gear, it doesn't take a whole lot now haha |
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Location: South Dakota | QH<3er - 2014-11-20 10:59 AM trickster j - 2014-11-19 5:18 PM QH<3er - 2014-11-19 8:11 AM Hmm that's funny. All the ones I've seen have been so laid back its ridiculous... Me too- I had to be constantly peddling the one I had- wore me out! That's how my boy was as a 2-3 yr old...I had some nice abs and legs from trying to get him to trot...heaven forbid lope!!! : ) but as soon as he realized he needed to get his butt in gear, it doesn't take a whole lot now haha
Yes, my MEO granddaughter, was very laid back and easy going as a 3/4 yr old.....now as a 4 yr old, she is really coming on nice, lots of go,.....they just need time to develop. |
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Mr eye opener