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| Which do you prefer? Just curious to see who likes what better! As for me, I love the rodeo lifestyle and am not a huge fan of nbha, and barrel races. |
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| I love them all. A barrel race is a barrel race is a barrel race to me. I'm not afraid to enter up anywhere in any format in any company. |
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| To me jackpot pays out to the first three or four fastest times. NBHA or other similar formats are 4D or5D barrel races. That is the way they advertise them around here. Also a jackpot adds 5 seconds for a knocked down barrel where as in a 4D you are DQ'd. If we had jackpots around her the only people who would show up would be the tough 5 or 6 1D horses duking it out for the money. With the 4-5D format, the small barrel races draw over 200 around here.
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| streakysox - 2015-11-22 2:57 PM
To me jackpot pays out to the first three or four fastest times. NBHA or other similar formats are 4D or5D barrel races. That is the way they advertise them around here. Also a jackpot adds 5 seconds for a knocked down barrel where as in a 4D you are DQ'd. If we had jackpots around her the only people who would show up would be the tough 5 or 6 1D horses duking it out for the money. With the 4-5D format, the small barrel races draw over 200 around here.
What kind of jackpots do you have where you live?
The only jackpots I've been to around here are 4d, so they're very similar to an nbha just with more added money. |
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| classicpotatochip - 2015-11-22 2:51 PM
I love them all. A barrel race is a barrel race is a barrel race to me. I'm not afraid to enter up anywhere in any format in any company.
I agree! I do it all but I just fell in love with the rodeo atmosphere, and it seems like they move a lot quicker. |
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| IowaCanChaser - 2015-11-22 3:18 PM
classicpotatochip - 2015-11-22 2:51 PM
I love them all. A barrel race is a barrel race is a barrel race to me. I'm not afraid to enter up anywhere in any format in any company.
I agree! I do it all but I just fell in love with the rodeo atmosphere, and it seems like they move a lot quicker.
First of all, rodeos are jackpots. Rodeos move faster because maybe 10 people run in the performance, the rest run in the slack. Apparently, you have never had to run in slack with 60 barrel racers. Not too fast. I think it would be rare for a rodeo to have as many entries as a 4D. Like I said, around here, there are 200 entries at a small barrel race. One last night at a cowboy church had 217. Yes, they move slow with that many. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | The only reason a rodeo moves faster then a jackpot is because they only take so many for the show and they have to move them pretty fast to stay with the schedule of the rodeos show, then they have slack to run what is left of the riders. Yes a jackpot is slower its because its all barrel racers and you have anywhere from 200 to a 500 running.
You must have not ever riden in a 3 day show where its all barrels. Some of the shows here will have over 1000 running and a Rodeo will have maybe 10 to 15 in a show, and of course theres slack if they need it. |
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| I would rather jackpot.
Reasons being,
I am not a roper, and I find there are millions of ropers in slack, and they all take their sweet time in the box, which makes the day drag out even more.
I would rather park at an event for the weekend, visit, work colts, compared to hitting 4-5 rodeos in a weekend
Better ground conditions, therefore less risk of my horses getting hurt
Smaller jackpots I don't have to preenter, so if the weather is crappy, I am not forfeiting my entry fees, or I am not forced to run compared to a rodeo where you have to preenter and pay turnout fines.
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| Rodeos here have hard slick ground if your horse can't handle bad ground he won't hold up. I like the 4d |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Nothing beats the rodeo atmosphere, but I don't love it enough to go out and buy a rodeo horse and I'm not going to enter just to donate. So I'll continue my fair weather barrel racing ways until one of mine shapes up and makes me want to hit the road again. |
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| I'd rather rodeo.. |
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Location: MD | I have to be honest, if I could run barrels at rodeos, I'd be at far fewer barrel races! |
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| WrapSnap - 2015-11-22 11:28 PM I have to be honest, if I could run barrels at rodeos, I'd be at far fewer barrel races!
and i ythink its wrong you can/t have always thought that guy should be able to but oh heck thats gonna start a flame |
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Location: Texas | I like both for their various reasons. I like the friendship at the jackpots, hanging out with my friends all day and working upstairs. I enjoy the weekend races where we camp out. Rodeos are definitely run and go.. on to the next one. nothing beats placing at or winning a rodeo... the atmosphere is electric. But, to me rodeos are all business.. and fast. no down time. And slack is horrible IMO haha. Running 12th on the ground at a pro rodeo sure sucks. No one says they have to do 10, they just have to match how many were in the perfs. so if they take 12 in a perf, you drag on 12 in slack. which sucks. Also, the patterns are sometimes set up really weird at rodeos because its some random committeeman setting the pattern who doesn't care if the barrel is 10 feet off the fence. |
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Location: Arkansas | I would rather rodeo, hands down. I only go to barrel races when they are close to home and there isn't a rodeo. I also rope, my husband steer wrestles, and my stepson ropes and steer wrestles. Rodeo we can all do together as a family. When I go to a barrel race, I am usually on my own (not that sometimes you don't need that, lol). I was raised rodeoing and the atmosphere is like no other. |
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Location: Oklahoma | To me it all depends on what you have to run and what your goal is. The rodeos are just as slow as barrel races if you have a contractor that likes to jack around. Running 12th on the ground is not at all fun either, but we all have to draw that position sometime and it makes you appreciate being 5th on the groud at a barrel race. LOL Plus the rodeo money is better. I hate running the 5th fastest time and barely covering my fees with 100 runners.
I have a pretty cool little horse right now that I will not run at a jackpot unless it is for a good size check. I don't want to waste my runs at jackpots when my goal next year is to try for the IFR. I also won't run him at smaller rodeos anymore.
I have another horse that will be my "jackpot horse" for the year. She will be the open, smaller rodeos horse and the one I run at barrel races or series. She will usually hit the top of the 2D.
I wish I had a colt that I could dedicate my winter to getting seasoned, but I don't at this time. |
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Location: Missouri | cheryl makofka - 2015-11-22 4:24 PM
I would rather jackpot.
Reasons being,
I am not a roper, and I find there are millions of ropers in slack, and they all take their sweet time in the box, which makes the day drag out even more.
I would rather park at an event for the weekend, visit, work colts, compared to hitting 4-5 rodeos in a weekend
Better ground conditions, therefore less risk of my horses getting hurt
Smaller jackpots I don't have to preenter, so if the weather is crappy, I am not forfeiting my entry fees, or I am not forced to run compared to a rodeo where you have to preenter and pay turnout fines.
^^ This, plus I am a fair weather barrel racer. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I agree the Rodeos are so much fun and if your a young and unmarried person it could be over the moon for you lol. But I like the jackpots, the ground is just so much better and you have better chances of not hurting your horse, they can get hurt on any ground but at a good run jackpot the chances are less. All the bigger races that I have been to have great payouts, like the ANHA, D&G's and the list gos on... |
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Location: The edge of no where | I'm happy to run at whatever I can get to.....many rodeos have slack during the week, that's not feasible with my job. I LOVE that many barrel races allow you to pre-enter online a couple of days out (even tho there are no late charges at the race). I never hang out all day. Go make my run and get out of there.....too many other things to do on weekends. I'm hauling a green one along with my open horse and it's so nice that some of the producers will let you pre-enter exhibitions as well. The atmosphere doesn't matter to me - I'm there to work horses and I really don't care what anyone else is doing. |
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Location: Jersey Girl | If I was running more competive times, I would absolutely do rodeos. Nothing compares to the atmosphere and rush you get running during performance! But since I am still floundering in the 4D, I will stick with those.  |
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| fulltiltfilly - 2015-11-23 1:42 PM
If I was running more competive times, I would absolutely do rodeos. Nothing compares to the atmosphere and rush you get running during performance! But since I am still floundering in the 4D, I will stick with those.
I feel the same way. If I was riding like I did 20 years ago, no question I would rather rodeo!  |
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | Right now my daughter is doing HS rodeos and we love it! As a parent, I think it goes so much faster and I don't spend my entire day sitting around watching 100 other horses run the pattern. There is variety and a lot of action. Her horse also seem to thrive in the rodeo atmosphere. What I appreciate most about HS rodeo is how it honors American traditions and not afraid to stay strong for the American anthem and prayer. With that being said it is expensive and you most certainly don't always get the best ground conditions, but once that rodeo blood is flowing through you it is hard to ignore. |
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Location: Texas | I prefer to rodeo. I LOVE the atmosphere! Rodeo just fits me better. |
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| I personally get bored just doing barrel races and just doing rodeos... I have to mix it up. My gelding now doesnt handle the rodeo atmosphere well. If he did, I would probably do a rodeo or two, a handful of my favorite barrel races and then some of the horse shows. I went through different periods where I only ran rodeo (college) or only ran barrel races and I got bored doing just one. I like to mix it up. |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | I love both, but I only enter Rodeos if my horse is competitive enough to place. Right now I am on young horses who are moving up thru the Ds and so we stick to jackpots :) |
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Location: Oklahoma | Really it all depends on what drives you, do you like the pace and ease of a jackpot or would you rather feel the roar of 60,000 plus at Houston. The atmosphere of Rodeo is an adreneline rush hands down. I have done both for many years now and just loved the thrill of hearing a huge crowd cheering me on. |
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| Currently jackpots with rodeo aspirations. Hoping to breakaway rope next year if the up and coming barrel horse isn't ready (or even if he is).
Helps to have a SO who also rodeos, late nights and early mornings chasing white lines with the one you love. I've ended a lot of relationships over lack of support for my passion, so it's a pretty special chance to go hard and have that supporting factor next to me.
He supports me via jackpots as well but unless they are in town and his niece is running too he doesn't generally come - usually at a rodeo, roping jackpot, or working on the farm. I cherish the events we do together. |
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Location: WI | I do love the rodeo road, but it gets long - especially when you aren't winning and on the road alone. |
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Location: Salem Ky | If I was good enough, I'd shoot for the NFR. But I'm a 2-3D barrel racer. So I go to barrel racing shows. |
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| I just love to go...doesn't matter where. Sometimes I hate the ground at rodeos...but I have horse right now that prefers rodeos over jackpots...and we have an agreement that I'll take him to a rodeo for every three or four jackpots just to keep him firing for me. There is something about rodeos that gets my blood going a little...I think its more symbolic to me than anything...as a trainer...rodeos signify a colt coming into a finished/seasoned horse....and hard work payed off. |
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | I'll take a jackpot any day. Why would I buy a $300 permit, pay higher entry fees, drive a million miles, to make one run on who knows what kind of pattern set up on probably crap ground? I'd much rather haul everybody, season my colts, on better ground, and make it home in time for dinner.
I'm always kind of amazed at the girls and horses that hit the rodeo trail and thrive on it. I think ya'll crazy.  |
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Location: South Dakota | At this point in time, jackpots and working my way through the D's is the goal...I will be thrilled to develop my little mare into a consistent 1D horse.
I have done the rodeo life, qualifying for the Canadian Finals Rodeo...doing very well at the Calgary Stampede several times on horses I've trained, is a thrill that no jackpot can compete with....but these days, I like being home...alot! |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I liked to rodeo myself in my younger days, they were just open rodeos but it was a rodeo, but now that I'm older I like the slow pace of a good jackpot, lol |
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| At this point in my life I would like to do either one. |
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Location: Oklahoma | The Child Gone Wild and my horses try harder at rodeos. I think they like the environment better. They're all laid back at the barrel race and clearly think. . BORING. . even though it can be a social hour for the Child Gone Wild.
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Location: North Dakota | I like both.
There's that "thrill" that comes with running to music and in front of a crowd, at a rodeo.
And the jackpots are nice if you have a horse that isn't fast enough (or experienced enough) to place at a rodeo.
So far, I've only done amateur rodeos as I haven't had a horse good enough to justify buying my pro permit. Someday I'd like to, to enter the rodeos near me and *maybe* make my circuit finals. But I've got to have the horse before I can do that.
I like variety. I also still do local horse shows and playdays to give my barrel horses something different to do. Keeps me entertained and keeps things interesting for them.
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| Bless all of you that have the endurance to rodeo. But me, I'm just a working, middle-aged lady that is thankful for divisional jackpots. Up here in North Texas, if I can clock one second back from these amazing barrel racers I have met my goal! |
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| I'd rather drive 500 miles to make one run at a rodeo than 25 miles to sit all day at a jackpot. And I have a far better chance of placing at rodeos around here, even against the same horses I would run against at the horse shows.
I will go to an occasional show if I have young horses or if there is just nothing else to go to.
Futurities are at the bottom of my list. Get there 2,3 or 4 days before you ever get to make a run......and of course I never had anything competitive enough to make it fun. |
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