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Location: Bandera, TX | RoadToVegas - 2015-06-29 11:28 PM How often are you riding your 2 year olds at this point? Or lunging tying ect?
IT DEPENDS ON THE HORSE. WHEN I CAN I LIKE TO RIDE A STARTED HORSE EVERY DAY FOR A FEW MINUTES BUILDING UP TO 15-20 MIN WITH SUNDAYS OFF. THE REAL MATURE ONES CAN HANDLE 30 MIN. IF I WAS ON THE RANCH I WOULD GIVE THEM A SIMPLE JOB THAT KEEPS ME IN SIGHT OF OTHERS... MOVE GOATS OR CATTLE CHECK FENCE. |
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Location: ND | Mine isn't started yet, but she doesn't officially turn 2 until September. I'll put 10-15 rides on her & just introduce the basics this fall. Then she'll get the winter off. Once nice weather gets here in the spring I'll start working her more concistently & put roughly 60 days on her next summer when she's coming 3. |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | Mine get started in August |
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Location: Okemah,OK | I have a friend putting 30 days on mine now. Once she comes home, she'll spend time being tied while we ride others, some round pen work and manners. Won't do much riding again til next spring though. Like to get good base started and then pick it up again as a 3 year old. |
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| Mine is at the trainers right now. He will put 30 days on her then she will go to my barrel trainer to see what we have. I think my barrel trainer is anxious to get her because she has a full sister who is 3 and is showing a lot of promise. I think the 2 year old is a better horse, but we'll see. |
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Location: mi | Mine is not broke yet. No plans to start that until next spring. But we try to work with him a couple times a week. Saddling, clipping, loading, bathing, tying just anything he needs to know how to do really.
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Location: Oklahoma | Mine's being a horse.
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| Mine has been getting saddled and tied to the wall for months now. Not every day, but 3-4 times a week. He ponies. He is driving nice, with jugs banging on his sides with rocks in them. Trying to get him desensitized. He will go along this weekend for his first trip away from home just to see the sights. I will probably get on the middle of July and put 30ish days on him. He learns super fast, so have to be careful not to push him. Would be easy to do. |
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Location: Got Lobsta? | Doing ground work but picking up the pace next month. Hope to be on her back in August - if I survive the ground work! |
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Location: NE Texas | My 2 YO has had probably 45 days riding. Chase Shafer put the first 30 days on her and exposed her to donkeys, ropes, bucking bulls, etc. I haven't ridden her much since she got home from him, but I haul her with me and let her stand tied to the trailer everywhere we go. I will get back on her this fall and install a few "buttons" so when we get started next year, she's ready to go on with. LOVE this El Scorcho filly!!!!
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Location: South | I sent my 2 year old off in March for 30 days. Once she came home I put an additional 30 days on her. I have now turned her out for a little while just to be a horse, and about once a week I get her up to tie and ride for about 15 minutes to check the cows. Please keep in mind my 2 year old is very large for her age. I was afraid if she got much bigger she would be too big to handle for myself
She turned 2 in February and is 16.0 and will weigh #1100 easy.
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Location: WI | I just got mine back from the trainers the beginning of June after her first 30 days. She excelled way faster than I expected (she has all the buttons to go on with) so I have been riding her about 2-3 times a week. I'd hate to get too ahead of myself since she is just 2. Hoping to ride her through this fall out in the hills and valleys we have, give her the winter off, and pick back up in the spring with her. I'd love to give her a job next spring (maybe poles?) because she gets bored fast! She is a smart cookie. She has been a blast so far. Waiting until her 5 yr old year to futurity seems forever away. |
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Location: California | 5 days a week, Tuesday-Saturday. Our two year olds were started the beginning of March. They get a couple days a week of short arena work, a couple days of flag or cattle work, and then one day riding out in the hills. They are also on track for the 2016 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity tho. |
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| Are most of these two year olds posted futurity horses? Or how does that change your game plan as a 2 year old if you are planning to 4 year old futurity them? How broke should they be at the end of their two year old year? |
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| Mines not started yet. I got him in april, ive been doing ground work and putting weight on him. Traning wise he's ready to saddle and get on, physicaly im not happy with wherehhe's at.... so im just wating on him and messing around with "scarry things" until im happy with his growth.
I want to run him as a 5 year old but we will see. I plan to send him for some "cutting" traning over the winter to get more "fancy" broke but at this point it just all depends on him and how he grows. |
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Location: South | My two year old is not a futurity horse. My plan is to get a good foundation on her this summer and fall then put her on the pattern next year. She is already being hauled to see the sights. I mainly started mine because of her size. I don't have a husband involved with my horses, so it's all me. I needed a good handle on her before she got too big and her get her bluff in on me.
Just edited to say: I want my filly by the end of this year to one rein stop, side pass, be soft at the poll, and trot and lope circles.
I also have pushed a few calves on her and that was an added bonus :)
She rides like a seasoned veteran so I constantly have to remind myself she is just 2.
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| I also do not have a husband involved and my 2 year old is already 15.0 He is a June baby. I need to get some respect before he gets too big for me to handle.
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| RoadToVegas - 2015-06-30 1:05 PM
Are most of these two year olds posted futurity horses? Or how does that change your game plan as a 2 year old if you are planning to 4 year old futurity them? How broke should they be at the end of their two year old year?
Mine will go to my barrel trainer when I get her back from the man who is breaking her. My trainer will check her out to see what kind of potential she has. Hopefully, she will be as talented as her sister. |
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Location: Kansas and loving it | I am happy with the progress of my AGANG filly. After 10 rides he moved cattle on her and she has a really nice natural stop. When she comes home in a couple of weeks, I will lunge her and pony her. But will be waiting until next year to have a good 4 months with the trainer. She is not intended to be a futurity horse, my goal is a solid all around, trustable horse.
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Location: Texas | My 2 yr old is a June colt, so still not really very mature, & knees definitely not closed. He is not a futurity colt. Currently, he is getting saddled, tied, ground work, ponied, & hauled to barrel races . I mess with him about 4 days a week. He will go to trainer for 30-60 days in September, then I will ride him lightly weather permitting throughout fall/winter. I will probably send him to another trainer next spring & he will start some light rope training .. I will play it by ear as to when he starts barrels & pole patterning, but in the past I have started that pretty early as a part of learning basic fundamentals (nothing more than a trot for a long while/lots of slow work). My goal is took keep him quiet while teaching him the basics. By the end of his first year I hope to have a very nicely started prospect that is easy for this older chubby gal to train & haul without getting hurt :) |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | I don't have a 2 year old right now but I have broke a lot of young and old horses over the years and tried a lot of different schedules.
What I like best is introduce some really light & occasional ground work starting their 2nd year. I'll work on moving hips or shoulders every time they go out - 2 minutes max. I don't drill or spend a lot of time. I won't start actually training them on real consistent ground work until they're at least two and a half. I'll spend a few weeks on just ground work, keep sessions short. Then I'll get a handful of rides - maybe 5- and then give them the winter off. I'll continue with the ground stuff at turnout like I did before but that's it. If I do it right, they start back like they left off. |
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