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Location: Missouri | So I was browsing old boxes the other day and stumbled on some old pictures of the days before barrel horses. So being that I got a good laugh I thought I would share. Who else has pictures of the old days before barrel horses?!
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Location: Crossfield Alberta | There was a day before barrel horses???????  |
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Location: Missouri | There was and I had money!! |
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Location: Loma Linda, CA | I've always done barrel horses here :P
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Location: on my horse | My roots are in the reining pen I'll try to attach a pic or two.
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Location: Crossfield Alberta | mlh0972 - 2014-12-16 7:25 PM There was and I had money!!
Money??? I have heard of that.... thought it was just a rumor!!! LOL And FYI I am jealous I always wanted to try jumping  |
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Location: Missouri | Keep them coming! I love seeing what everyone did before barrel horses. |
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | FUN POST  |
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Location: British Columbia | I did a lot of jumping, mostly cross country when I was young at a barn in Northern, ON. I didn't really care for the falling off out in an open field or being scraped off on jumps when a horse would balk so my parents changed coaches and I ended up at a barn that taught barrels. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | I came from roping and cutting/Team Penning. Also rodeo pageants. I didn't get a real barrel horse until i was 15. If I ever quit running barrels I would go back to my original cutting and penning roots. Nothing beats riding a good cutting horse.
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | Sadly I don't have a single picture on my computer/phone. I started out in huntseat, then went on to do some western pleasure, dressage, and more hunters, then barrels and now it's more mounted shooting than barrels.
ETA: I can't believe I forgot! I spent a few years at the track. Not riding (considering I was too inexperienced and too tall to be a jockey since I was in elementary school) but helped my dad's friend who trained race horses (including mine).
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  A Lady with Fight
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Location: NC | I didn't get my first horse until I was 21 years old. She was a red grade mare and I was tickled to death just to have a horse! She's teaching someone else to ride now. I moved on to an actual barrel horse last year. (A slow barrel horse but a barrel horse none the less)
I 'come' from the land of no horses. I worked and clawed my way to being able to have just one. At one point I owned several. And now I'm down to two. It's been a fun 6 years in the horse world. I started as a clueless just for fun trail rider. Now I'm a clueless just for fun weekend warrior barrel racer. And it's still fun. :)
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Location: Oklahoma | I grew up riding hunters/jumpers/equitation and dressage...
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Location: LuluLand~along I64 Indiana | I come from a town family and the 4-H project horse... this little yearling i had every day of his life. 28 years total and he did anything and everything i ever asked of him. Miss you Bar
eta: there are 25 years inbetween these fair photos and probably 20 years at the fair in between.... 2008 was my daughters last year in 4-h and she wanted to show him one last time. that was his last trip.
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Location: London Ontario | I also come from the land of no horses, AKA the City!!! My dad always said "Dads don't buy horses husbands do!!!". I was however very lucky to have parents who supported my riding lessons and shows. I also am very lucky to have had people in my life who mounted me on their own horses most of my life. I started out in the Western and English performance world(Reining, roping, WP, HUS etc) I did just about every class(although I hated trail and showmanship) here are two photos from my highschool days(not all that long ago LOL). While I always did barrel race and run poles I never soley did them. I would have one or two perf. horses and a barrel horse.
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Location: EDGE OF INSANITY | One of those kids is me lol-i had to crop this photo a ton so it would upload :(
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Location: The edge of no where | Riding like a wild indian on the ranch and hunter/jumpers. I got tired of only getting trophies and no $$$$, so I swapped to running barrels. The top horse I showed in both hunters, he would go slow and look pretty....then change bridles, slap some boots on him and run around the jumper ring. He was 14.3 and had a huge heart.
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Phxbarrel - 2014-12-16 6:39 PM I've always done barrel horses here :P Me at 14 I think.
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 Livin in the Dinosaur Age
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Location: the other T-town, Oklahoma | I don't have a pic to post, but I didn't get my first horse until I was 17! Until then I shot competative archery tournaments and still hold a Upper Penninsula of Michigan state record from when I was 8 years old, that was 30 years ago and my record still holds! |
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Location: in the middle of backwoods iowa | I took a break from barrels to ride saddleseat on a Saddlebred!
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Location: Loma Linda, CA | ~BINGO~ - 2014-12-17 10:27 AM
Phxbarrel - 2014-12-16 6:39 PM I've always done barrel horses here :P Me at 14 I think.
It was in Flagstaff... Kind of in a forest area, but I don't remember the name of it. It's been well over 11 years now lol. |
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| I showed saddlebreds and standardbreds from the time I was 4 till about 22. I was a world champion when I was 8. I also showed hunter jumpers when I was 15 -17 yrs old and I had reiners for a short time and now I have barrel horses and rope horses.
This is the only pic that I have on my phone of my saddlebred days. I have oh so many at home...
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Location: NC | Started out running barrels at 6/7
Then went english
Know mainly barrels with some english occasionally |
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Location: Missouri | Thank you to everyone replying. This is so much fun. I myself started riding when I was 1 or 2 but started out with Tennessee walking horses, then American Saddle Breds, Hunter jumpers when I was 7 or 8, Western Pleasure when I was 10, cutting horses came when I was about 11-12, and barrel horses started early but I started on a Tennessee walking horse at a local saddle club. I did high school rodeo and during that time I showed cattle all over the country. LOVE showing cattle but sadly I am too old to do the junior shows any more, now I just travel around and help out at Denver, Kansas City, Louisville and anywhere else I am needed.
Horses have always been in my life and I have always had a trainer until I started riding barrel horses professionally. Weird. I think having a well rounded background in all disciplines of riding really helps with becoming a better horseman. |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Phxbarrel - 2014-12-17 10:11 AM ~BINGO~ - 2014-12-17 10:27 AM Phxbarrel - 2014-12-16 6:39 PM I've always done barrel horses here :P Me at 14 I think. It was in Flagstaff... Kind of in a forest area, but I don't remember the name of it. It's been well over 11 years now lol.
LOL, it's Fort Tuthill. That's what it looked like from the pictures. I live in Flagstaff. They still hold a gymkhana series there each year. |
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| Been horsecrazy my whole life! Grew up around a race track, but got into barrel racing when I was about 10. The first two pictures were on my 4th birthday, riding around my aunt's good barrel horse. The last picture was my first race with him when I was 12; he had starting slowing down, and she handed him down to me. He was my first "real" barrel horse (not pony!), and I credit him with igniting my barrel racing fire.
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Location: North Dakota | MS2011 - 2014-12-17 10:03 AM Riding like a wild indian on the ranch and hunter/jumpers. I got tired of only getting trophies and no $$$$, so I swapped to running barrels. The top horse I showed in both hunters, he would go slow and look pretty....then change bridles, slap some boots on him and run around the jumper ring. He was 14.3 and had a huge heart.
Are those some rust breeches I spy? I seriously am obsessed w/ rust breeches. |
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Location: Royal J Performance Horses, AZ | I dont have "old days before barrel horses" Ive always been in the barrel world.
Well to be honest we started out at gymkhanas as kids! But honeslty ive never tried a different discipline. I'd really like to though! |
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