Posted 2020-01-28 8:22 AM Subject: RE: NFR free runner
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Posts: 289 Location: Northeast SD
I feel like most of them are. I don't feel like a lot of them are really push style. One example off the top of my head would be JLo from this years NFR.
I see someone listed Paige as a free runner yet Amber had trouble at times getting her by the first barrel and some nights by the 3rd so now I've confused myself on what a free runner is.
I see someone listed Paige as a free runner yet Amber had trouble at times getting her by the first barrel and some nights by the 3rd so now I've confused myself on what a free runner is.
I was kinda wondering the same thing. Saying Paige is a free runner in the thomas and mack is like saying Bling was. Not so much... I think of a free runner as one that can kinda get by a barrel if your timing isn't just right to ask for the rate down. It would definitly be a horse that really listens to go forward body position coming into a barrel. Not one that you have to beg for 1 more step.
Posted 2020-01-31 9:45 AM Subject: RE: NFR free runner
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Posts: 1511 Location: Illinois
KindaClassey - 2020-01-30 8:53 PM
run n rate - 2020-01-30 6:29 PM
I see someone listed Paige as a free runner yet Amber had trouble at times getting her by the first barrel and some nights by the 3rd so now I've confused myself on what a free runner is.
I was kinda wondering the same thing. Saying Paige is a free runner in the thomas and mack is like saying Bling was. Not so much... I think of a free runner as one that can kinda get by a barrel if your timing isn't just right to ask for the rate down. It would definitly be a horse that really listens to go forward body position coming into a barrel. Not one that you have to beg for 1 more step.
I would think if you get a lot of the free runners in that small of a pen for that many runs they're gonna start cheating a little & need pushed around some. Some I thinks it's hard to say what they are too unless you're the one riding them. Sharpie seems like he'd be a free runner, Valor too. I kind of feel like thats not the best pen to judge what type of runners they are, especially the ones who run all 10 rounds
I see someone listed Paige as a free runner yet Amber had trouble at times getting her by the first barrel and some nights by the 3rd so now I've confused myself on what a free runner is.
I was kinda wondering the same thing. Saying Paige is a free runner in the thomas and mack is like saying Bling was. Not so much... I think of a free runner as one that can kinda get by a barrel if your timing isn't just right to ask for the rate down. It would definitly be a horse that really listens to go forward body position coming into a barrel. Not one that you have to beg for 1 more step.
I would think if you get a lot of the free runners in that small of a pen for that many runs they're gonna start cheating a little & need pushed around some. Some I thinks it's hard to say what they are too unless you're the one riding them. Sharpie seems like he'd be a free runner, Valor too. I kind of feel like thats not the best pen to judge what type of runners they are, especially the ones who run all 10 rounds
Yep, totally get that. My little mare is a free runner but in small pens I don't have to beg so hard for her to rate and turn where as at Pendleton I start reminding her to rate when we unload.
I see someone listed Paige as a free runner yet Amber had trouble at times getting her by the first barrel and some nights by the 3rd so now I've confused myself on what a free runner is.
I was kinda wondering the same thing. Saying Paige is a free runner in the thomas and mack is like saying Bling was. Not so much... I think of a free runner as one that can kinda get by a barrel if your timing isn't just right to ask for the rate down. It would definitly be a horse that really listens to go forward body position coming into a barrel. Not one that you have to beg for 1 more step.
Amber lives up near me and I've seen Paige quite a few times and I don't think I'd ever consider her a free runner. I feel like shes either spot on or too tight/a little cheaty. I don't think I've ever seen the mare run by anything or Amber have to ask her to turn..
NFR free runner
