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Thistle2011 Reg. Mar 2012	Posted 2015-10-14 6:51 AM Subject: From start to finish first day on pattern to entering
The BHW Book Worm Posts: 1768	For fun!!! Most people are not futurity trainers but for those of you that pattern your own horses how long does it take you on average to get them were you feel there ready to enter. First day on pattern to entering. Edited by Thistle2011 2015-10-14 6:53 AM
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r_beau Reg. Apr 2010	Posted 2015-10-14 11:45 AM Subject: RE: From start to finish first day on pattern to entering
Born not Made Posts: 2931 Location: North Dakota	Well, I suppose that depends on what you want to accomplish when you enter. For my current 4-year-old, I started entering him at the same time I barely started loping the pattern. I was hauling my other horse anyway, and I just wanted him to start having the experience. It took a couple months before he even placed in a 4D. But I didn't care. I just wanted to get him in the arena and have fun with it. So again, I suppose it depends on what you want to achieve when you enter. If you want to WIN it, then you'll work at home for a while before you enter.
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Thistle2011 Reg. Mar 2012	Posted 2015-10-14 12:54 PM Subject: RE: From start to finish first day on pattern to entering
The BHW Book Worm Posts: 1768	I guess I'll put mine out there. 1 horse from start to entering was probably 6 months starting out 3d but in another 6 month clocked 1d. My current mare has been patterning for 3 months and I'm giving her a little more time because she is extremely looky but on her A game I feel she would already be clocking hot
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MOTIVATED Reg. Nov 2008	Posted 2015-10-14 12:58 PM Subject: RE: From start to finish first day on pattern to entering
Expert Posts: 1525	I am ridiculous about how I do it I suppose. I buy mine off the track...so they are track broke. I dont give much time off at all before I start them under western saddle (because they are broke to western saddle in the first place).....its just a reminder really. Then I get them where I can kinda lope circles both ways in the correct lead and once we can do that...which dosesnt take much (because they already know how to go left) then I start them on the barrels. Most of the track horses I have had I literally start out trotting or loping to the barrels....and then I walk, trot and eventually lope around from there. I will say that my horses can usually lope and pattern before they can lope a correct circle haha...warming up can be hell! But eventually the handle "just comes" with all of it. Where most people spend a good six months putting or having someone put a nice handle on them first...I just go to the barrels and slowly but surely build their handle from there. I swear my open, outside rodeo horse couldnt lope a correct circle til last year...four years later haha...but he was running in the 1d and 2d...kinda silly. I dont enter until I think they can place in the 2d novice...which is about a second off the 1d time because most of the futurity horses around here run consistent 1d times in the open. I guess the benefit of having somthing that has ran a few seasons on the track is that they have "been seasoned" to different places and people already, they already know how to run under a rider and all I have to do is teach them how to turn...and that is the easy part for me. I can take a horse that runs off with someone else and have him setting three strides too early...its just something about the way I sit on one. And I usually only exhibition for the first 5 to 10 races...after that I just go. But when I work barrels at home I dont do any sort of warm up at all...I just go straight to the barrels...when I get on mine and get somewhere like a rodeo or something with limited to no warm-up time or space I want mine thinking about running the barrels anyway. Now if I want to get anything accomplished tuning wise, I let mine go cruise a set, and then I do my slow work and tuning after. I usually novice them for a year with some really big 5d races thrown in, and then I go to ammy rodeos mixed with jackpots the next year even if they arent fast enough...its the experience I want them to have...and then that 3rd year I will take them to the ammys and they will kinda "know the deal" and then to some pro rodeos that year to see some different places and then the fourth year they ought to be pretty solid....my horse now has taken 4 to 5 years...very immature. Usually by the 3rd year on the others I have gotten far enough with them that I know if they are going to make the caliber of horse I want....if I didnt find out in that first year that I was running them in the Novice...usually I know then what I have.
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geronabean Reg. Sep 2003	Posted 2015-10-14 3:15 PM Subject: RE: From start to finish first day on pattern to entering
Queen Bean of Ponyland Posts: 24953 Location: WYOMING	First day on patterning to entering depends on the horse but the last one was 30 days.
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