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Extreme Veteran
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| How big do you make your pockets? Do you lift, pull to the hip neck reign and how competitive are your horses with your style of turning. | |
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Location: Somewhere around here | I usually make my pockets the same width as how long my horses body is, from chest to rump. So every pocket is slightly different with each horse. I also ask my horses to turn by using a lifting motion in my hand and keeping my hand up. If I pull down and towards their hip it just isn't right and their body isn't used in the correct way. | |
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 Saint Stacey
| It really depends on the approach you use. For the way I was taught, it's 8-10' on 1st, 4' on 2nd and roughly 2' on 3rd. If you run to the barrel or to your point also comes into play, especially on 3rd. As well as how many strides you have going around. When I was running, I was in the 1D and won rodeo money. Now I basically coach my daughter. She runs in the 1D, has won WPRA rodeos. | |
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Miracle in the Making
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| depends on the horses styles and approach everydang 1 we had was different rollback large small had to care a notebook on directions | |
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 Balance Beam and more...
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Location: 31 lengths farms | They are all a little different. My big mare, a smidge under 17 hands doesn't want a pocket, you give her too big a one and she works so hard at getting into the barrel you might as well use a calendar to time her around it. Days, months years... With her I pretty much send her in with a 2 foot pocket, that seems to get her standing up in the turn, she runs a blend of straighter longer and then a 4x4 turn from a deeper entry.
The gelding I set up more with the barrel behind my knee and he needs a bigger pocket also, he likes the visual of the having the barrel towards the back cinch, frees him up to reach in the turn. I was setting it up at the front cinch and his turns were pretty but slow. He runs a 4x4 turn with a slight roll back/pivot at point 2.5.
The little mare is a work in progress, LOL!!! her style is me staying out of her way and letting her do what the heck she wants to do...not working for me so good.  | |
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| My push style guy is extremely turney, we keep the same distance away from the barrel all the way around, and it feels like half an inch, but It's about a foot in competition. But once in a while I can feel the barrel against my knee the whole way around the barrel!! He's a unique horse, and when running I lift and twist my wrist just enough to tip his nose, that way I can still have some bend and hold him off the barrel at the same time. We run top of the 1D at local nbha, and 2D at state shows.
And then my backup horse is the exact opposite, he's 16.2 hh and needs a good pocket around the barrel, he snaps around them, but still needs a good three feet. To ride him I dig my outside spur into him, and almost neckrein, I really have to pull to keep him on the barrel or he'll go wide, I have to keep my hand high on the reins because he is extremely rubber necked, and if you pull out, or up at all he will crank his head and his hips will swing out baddd! He's not much fun but he will clock 2D most of the time.
Edited by IowaCanChaser 2015-09-28 4:01 PM
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Pocket size