Ok so I'm needing some help im just now adding speed with my 5 year old mare and she is totally diffrent horse at show and practice this past month I made two practice runs and they where perfect but when I took her to the show she becomes uncontrollable in the pattern and don't respond to me. At practice she's great I don't understand
How many exhibitions have you done on the horse, like a couple a week over the last few months? How often do you get her out at a race, weekly? First thing I'd think of, cuz it applies to me, is do you get a bit more nervous when you go faster, maybe the horse feels it?
I have been showing her since she was 3 but just taking it slow and crushing I do get a little more nervous with faster runs on her but I'm not sure if that's it she doesn't act nervous or anything I actually walk her in an do a calm circle before the run
She may not be ready for that added speed away from home It can take a lot more than 2 practice runs for them to get the feel of speed away from home on different ground witha ll the excitment of being away from home
Do you have any video of her working at home and then cruising through at a show? That may be helpful to view in case it's something you're not realizing that you're doing. It may just be that it's the excitement of being away from home too. If she is working nice at home, I would quit working the barrels almost completely and find something else to do on her. Then I would get to a show early and get in the pen and do alot of loping and walking around. Lope her down like a cutting horse until you have her attention before the show and then make an exhibition run and see what you've got. Sounds to me like she's overly excited to be somewhere and just needs to be a little more tired before she's asked to work. She might be a bit of an over-achiever and trying to do what she thinks you want her to a little too much.
Do you have any video of her working at home and then cruising through at a show? That may be helpful to view in case it's something you're not realizing that you're doing. It may just be that it's the excitement of being away from home too. If she is working nice at home, I would quit working the barrels almost completely and find something else to do on her. Then I would get to a show early and get in the pen and do alot of loping and walking around. Lope her down like a cutting horse until you have her attention before the show and then make an exhibition run and see what you've got. Sounds to me like she's overly excited to be somewhere and just needs to be a little more tired before she's asked to work. She might be a bit of an over-achiever and trying to do what she thinks you want her to a little too much.
This was really helpful thank you I will try that. I do have videos but I'm having trouble uploading them.
When you do make a run, how many exhabitions do you do prior? Of I over work my gelding on the pattern before the race he gets hot and stops listening because the pressure is too much for his poor mind.
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