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Location: USA | I enter at a jackpot. Expos are good. Cruise him through once and he works perfect. Time for the open and it’s a total wreck. I’m not really nervous. Maybe a few butterflies but it’s more excitement bc I know this horse can clock. I don’t send him in - I let him pick his pace. We are still getting used to each other. Have only made about 5 runs on him and he’s only been entered a handful of times. It’s just so frustrating when you know they can lay down a run but something is happening and screwing it all up. Uugghhh. Ok. Rant over. |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | Your not the only one that has went thru this. It is very frustrating. |
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| My daughter went thru this, she could lay down a run in exhibitions but would break pattern if they entered. It was definitely something she was doing so I told her she had to get 5 good runs in exhibitions before she entered again. It took a month, I would not let her make more than one run at a race-solved her problem, they never had any problems after that. I would stick to exhibitions, add some speed till you get it figured out. In exhibitions you can go back and immediately fix something and not create more issues. Good luck, sometimes it just takes time. We also never hesitated to ask for help from the seller. |
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Elite Veteran
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| I promise everyone has went through this. What I have done in the past is go to a barrel run and do only exhibitions. But make the last exhibition you do, just as if you were going to run. You just need to slowly increase the speed of that last exhibition each time you go somewhere until you are going whatever speed you think he should be going when you enter. When you have ran your last exhibition at least twice and you feel solid, then enter the barrel run the next time. It will get better but you need to grow confidence in yourself as well as your horse, so take your time. |
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Location: Texas | Maybe it is time to stop exhibitioning, and just enter. My old horse had 1 fast run, and every one after that was slower. So I stopped exhibitioning him VERY early on. |
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| tracies - 2018-02-14 7:09 AM
Maybe it is time to stop exhibitioning, and just enter. My old horse had 1 fast run, and every one after that was slower. So I stopped exhibitioning him VERY early on.
THIS!!!! Just enter and go!!!! Save your training for home, teach your horse that if they get to the jackpot, they have to do it ONCE and its over. I promise you that if I did a time only on either of mine and came back to the jackpot they would think they were being tuned on and had done something wrong the first time. This is why I don't enter jackpots that make 2 runs in the same day, ever. |
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Location: USA | I have just entered and it's the same lol. I think I just need to continue to go though
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| History of the horse? Is he young and unfinished? Older and supposedly finished? Possible he’s blown up?
We have a horse who came to us as a rope horse. He’s bred to run barrels and pretty quickly discovered he does know them. 2 years ago we did a lot of cruising through, getting to know each other, very different style than my other horse. Last spring as I was getting with him more I started asking for more. It went to sh!t fast.
We did diagnose some soreness issues eventually. This has improved his roping performance tenfold. It hasn’t made a lick of difference on the barrels. There was a reason a barrel bred horse came to us as a rope horse. To this day he can smoke a pattern at home like an NFR champion. He’ll exibition alright. He’ll be a hot mess when entered.
Not trying to be a Debbie downer, just sharing my experience. Could someone fix my horse? Maybe. But running barrels away from home gives him a lot of anxiety, and he’s cool as a cucumber/enjoys roping so we’ve decided to just pursue what he enjoys and what we enjoy doing with him. |
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Sooo frustrating