Posted 2017-09-08 11:03 PM Subject: How many runs do you make per week? Young horses
Curious Mind
Posts: 2049
I have a 4 yr old mare eligible to futurity as a 5 yr old that I have taken off and on the back burner since she was broke as a 2yr old...anyway she has been taken slow and sporadic on the pattern...she is definitely patterned going slow! she is at the stage where she is pretty automatic at a high lope but when you ask for that other gear one day she might smoke a set or she might not be feeling it and turn one good barrel then go to the next and decide she isn't putting out that kind of effort and pauses or stalls out requiring correction...how many fast runs per week would u make on her until she gets more solid w speed? She hasn't been getting ran hardly at all...maybe 2 times a month
Posted 2017-09-10 8:10 AM Subject: RE: How many runs do you make per week? Young horses
Elite Veteran
Posts: 966 Location: Loco,Ok
You still have a fairly green horse. Look at it that way. They will have good runs and bad. You might try. Send her pretty hard to the barrel. About 10 ft or so stop set a bit and walk the turn. At each one. You want the horse to set at the barrel on their own. As advance trot the turn. Make them smooth and correct. Think of like going from 5th gear to 4th gear. Don't get frustrated. Still fairly green horse. Try that.
Posted 2017-09-12 4:18 PM Subject: RE: How many runs do you make per week? Young horses
You get what you give
Posts: 13030 Location: Texas
I'm probably not the best to answer because my work schedule doesn't allow me to ride as much as I like.. but I do fast work maybe once a week when mine are in shape enough to.
Posted 2017-09-12 7:59 PM Subject: RE: How many runs do you make per week? Young horses
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Posts: 883 Location: Southern Indiana
Personally I really don't ever ask my horses to run at home. I just cruise them through. Therefore if necessary every time you ride or every other. Then once they start working good back off. I really feel like if you slow work 3-4 times and cruise through your not really hurting them. Sometimes it takes 3 trips to finally get them to put the pieces together, but like I said I'm not asking for their life. I just let them speed up a little. I always walk them back through after they cruise just to teach them to calm back down. They learn by repetition. If they have a good day then spend the next day working on something else. You watch any good futurity trainers exhibition you'll realize they don't baby them. They work them! However, there is a big difference between running their guts out and working them. There is no right number...you just have to find a good balance.
How many runs do you make per week? Young horses
