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| My horse and I are beginning to add speed but we're running into the some problems. He will have a beautiful approach to all his barrels, but no matter how much leg, rein, sit, etc. I do, he always blows out of his turn.
His practice runs are always flawless but I'm looking for drills to clean up the turns and hopefully give me a little muscle memory for competition. |
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| Don't make your approach too wide and you are starting your turn too soon so get a stride past the barrel. |
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boon
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| My approach is good and he sets up really nice. It's almost as if he's not "ratey" enough and keeps on running past it. He literally takes the bit on the backside of the barrel and runs with it til I can get him back under control. |
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| I was taught to "parallel park" my horses once I got them to the outside of the barrel. Once they get their hind ends past the barrel, you stop them and back them up around the front side of the barrel (where you enter the turn) until their butt is past the barrel. Then ride forward to the next barrel, and repeat. That helps to keep them engaged in the entire turn and finish what they are doing before heading to the next barrel. We usually did this drill at a trot up to the barrel, through the turn and then obviously backwards at a walk.
I hope that makes sense. I made a crude drawing of it since I couldn't find any videos depicting this, so please don't mind my art skills.
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | madredepeanut - 2017-09-17 11:25 PM I was taught to "parallel park" my horses once I got them to the outside of the barrel. Once they get their hind ends past the barrel, you stop them and back them up around the front side of the barrel (where you enter the turn) until their butt is past the barrel. Then ride forward to the next barrel, and repeat. That helps to keep them engaged in the entire turn and finish what they are doing before heading to the next barrel. We usually did this drill at a trot up to the barrel, through the turn and then obviously backwards at a walk. I hope that makes sense. I made a crude drawing of it since I couldn't find any videos depicting this, so please don't mind my art skills.
Ive never heard or seen of this drill before so this is very interesting to me! thanks for the share! |
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Location: North Dakota | Any lameness isssue that would prevent him from powering out of the turn? (stifles seem to be notorious for that)
Have you done slow work where you circle the barrel more than once? Some horses "forget" to finish the barrel before they get excited to move onto the next one. Circling more than once reminds them to finish the barrel they are on.
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Location: never in the right place | Paul Humphrey drills work great |
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boon
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| No lameness issues- he was working absolutely wonderful at a slightly slower pace. And we have done circling barrels to engage the hind end, work on bending, etc. |
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boon
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| Thank you for the drill! That makes total sense to me! :) |
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Location: Somewhere around here | A drill that is helpful to me is if I'm trotting the pattern I will walk the barrel three or four times each Barrel. If I'm loping then I go down to a Trot & Trot the barrel three or four times each. That helped my horse wait on me to ask him to go instead of him trying to do it on his own and leave too early. |
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| Meet ... ITS ABOUT TIME GUYZ ...
2 year old gelding
He is out of the same dam as my mare Cougars Barbie Doll ....
Streakin For Sue by Streakin Six
"Timer" brought $25,000 at the Meyers Sale ...
and in the video you will see why!!
Stop all of your nagging on your horse and get you a pair of
split reins and a good easy non pinching smooth mouth snaffle
bit ... and learn to use it. Learn to ride 2 handed.
Now do this routine ...
you can rope a barrel if no mechanical cow ..
ABOUT 100 TIMES OVER THE NEXT MONTH ...
Pay attention .. works one rein to move left or right or stop, constantly
teaching him to keep his feet up under himself and moving, consistent,
puts stop and turn on his mind, Note the riders change to a long legged
girl roping the cow.... just as smooth!!
https://youtu.be/XUIAxMugyEQ
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https://youtu.be/XUIAxMugyEQ
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Defense Attorney for The Horse
Location: Claremore, OK | Jordon Briggs on Training Barrel Horses.com has a really good exercise called a figure eight drill. It really helps a horse use himself on the backside of the barrel and finish the turn. |
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