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| I have a friend who participates in QH races locally, she says its a lot of fun. Anyone else do any QH racing? Just something I was curious about, pros and cons. Do you like it? I imagine it would be fun just to do as an extra activity if you kept your horse conditioned for it. Seems to me like it would make most of them hot though. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
 
Location: Midwest | You mean match or dirt track racing?
To race through AQHA, you need to have the proper liscensing to jockey or train. |
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I just read the headlines
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| Down here in South Texas match racing is a dirty business. I have never been, but I have friends who have been to watch or done it tell me this. And yes it will make your horse hot. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | This is something I would stay away from, where I'm from it was something that I would never go to. |
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What Name?
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| yikes . From what I understood it was just dirt races. But they were like set up at fairs.ppl take bets. You hop on your horse, in whatever tack you want to ride in. And your race the fair track. It all sounded in good fun to me. But I have no clue. Which is why i was curious. Maybe its just an occasional local thing here. I don't think it's part of planned events, where you register and so fourth. |
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  Living on the edge of common sense
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Location: Carpenter, WY | it's expensive. I had a filly we put with a trainer for just one futurity race (I just wanted to see her break from the gate really). She did great in her practice outs with 2 firsts, but on the big day she overheated and was scratched at the last minute. I think this cost about 2k by the time all was said and done and I'd never do it again. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Where I'm from it was dirt are match races and there was alot of dirty dealings, but of course I lived on the border so mosty is was the drug dealers that ran their horses. |
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| americanpride08 - 2015-03-27 12:59 PM
yikes . From what I understood it was just dirt races. But they were like set up at fairs.ppl take bets. You hop on your horse, in whatever tack you want to ride in. And your race the fair track. It all sounded in good fun to me. But I have no clue. Which is why i was curious. Maybe its just an occasional local thing here. I don't think it's part of planned events, where you register and so fourth.
LOL don't be saying that too loud or boasting its legal to do that in TN
And SHH SHHH its not called betting or gambling its called "buying a keychain." If the cops ever show up hand out keychains to everyone and say its a key chain sale, an expensive one! I've been at the Southern Rebel when we did that of the calcuta hahahahaha
Its an occasional don't talk about tell the cops things honey LOL
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| I'd like to say its not like your regular dirt or brush track races here in this neck of the woods LOL
But its still not a legit thing. I'd actually be scared of my horse catching something from the horses there or bringing something back on my boots to the barn. I remember going and wanting to shower immediately.
But now you might see a chicken fight or to at one of these! 
Edited by astreakinchic 2015-03-27 12:40 PM
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What Name?
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| astreakinchic - 2015-03-27 12:38 PM I'd like to say its not like your regular dirt or brush track races here in this neck of the woods LOL But its still not a legit thing. I'd actually be scared of my horse catching something from the horses there or bringing something back on my boots to the barn. I remember going and wanting to shower immediately. But now you might see a chicken fight or to at one of these!
lol oh lord... and I thought I had seen all the rednecks had to offer around here.. I mean tractor pulls are like the forth of july here. LOL thanks for the warning peeps. I think I'll just stick to my good'ol fashion riding. And the occassional racing a friend =P guess we can race across hay fields and take bets if we wanna! |
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| No! That is not QH racing, that is illegal match racing. It is NOT a good thing to get into and often is very dirty. Or at least from the sounds of what you are saying, that's what it is.
We breed/train/race true QH racehorses and they are track horses just like Thoroughbreds. It's regulated and the horses are bred top notch to win. It is less expensive then TB, but also less payout. The QHs also go to slaughter less than TBs, since they usually go on to be roping/barrel horses. |
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Who Wants to Trade?
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| Match racing happens everywhere. It happens at every level of the game, usually with QHs but occasionally TBs.
I don't match, but several of the horses I've sold run match races and have done well. I have seen match horses receive much better care than done nice barrel horses and I've seen the reverse too.
In many cases betting goes on and that is illegal in every jurisdiction I can think of. If there is no betting, it is perfectly fine to match your horse against another...that is in effect a schooling race or a work with company.
Match tracks have no governing body (like many barrel races) so medication is handled differently. I wouldn't go to a match track expecting to run against someone else for fun. I'd go with a jockey and have my horse truly race fit. Normally there is a gate fee too. Winner take all. Gate fees can be as low as 100 or as high as ?????? Many, many horses run match races in illegal settings due to the wagering. |
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Location: Arkansas | Southtxponygirl - 2015-03-27 12:20 PM
Where I'm from it was dirt are match races and there was alot of dirty dealings, but of course I lived on the border so mosty is was the drug dealers that ran their horses.
where we live this is done on turnrows and the back forty. Horses are raced young and run hard. Not a pretty thing. Mostly the Hispanic community. We bought a horse that had been run this way. We didn't know it until after the fact, and it's been a long road to get him to be "normal." All he knows is run run run, and apparently wasn't treated too kindly in the process either. Makes me ill when on a Sunday afternoon a line of horse trailers goes past my house headed to the fields down the road; I know what those poor horses are about to endure. I'm sure there are different scenarios, but this is the way it is in our area. |
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