Posted 2017-09-28 9:44 PM Subject: five barrel drill
Baby Girl
Posts: 5012 Location: Hornbeck,La
all the research on this drill only shows doing all rights or all lefts. Is it against the rules to crisscross the pattern or do figure 8 with the barrels. can someone explain the pros and cons. was just wondering
Posted 2017-09-29 8:48 AM Subject: RE: five barrel drill
Expert
Posts: 2097 Location: Deep South
From BHN
To set up the Five-Barrel Drill (top image), Campbell often adds two barrels to the normal cloverleaf pattern. The five-barrel set up gives her too many options to list here, but includes variables that keep the horse looking to the rider for a road map. A couple of extra barrels in the cloverleaf creates many ways to school a horse without being redundant and won’t interfere with the normal pattern.
“I will mix this up, going to random barrels to keep my horses listening to me," Campbell said. "But a great way to start is by doing all rights, then all lefts through the pattern of five barrels.”
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