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Location: Texas | I would get in contact with Brett or the person that rodeoed on him and see if there is anything that can help you. |
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| I agree, get in contact with someone that ran the horse when it did well and ask their opion or even see if you could get a private lesson and let them watch the horse work. 4 or 5 years off for a horse is a long time. I had a mare once that had 1 baby (off for a year) and it literally took 3 or 4 years to get her back where she was before she got bred. Sometimes it just takes time, and I think some horses just lose their fire when they dont do it for a long time. |
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Location: Deep South | The Winstrol can make a huge difference.
That being said I agree with everyone else that a lot of horses just don't come back from injuries the same even though they've been cleared sound.
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | horsiace1025 - 2016-07-21 7:40 AM
I agree, get in contact with someone that ran the horse when it did well and ask their opion or even see if you could get a private lesson and let them watch the horse work. 4 or 5 years off for a horse is a long time. I had a mare once that had 1 baby (off for a year) and it literally took 3 or 4 years to get her back where she was before she got bred. Sometimes it just takes time, and I think some horses just lose their fire when they dont do it for a long time.
The lady I bought him from is the one the owned him since a was a 2yr old. She has been little to no help. All she can do is tell me to give him this or that.
I'm using her feed. I'm using her vet. I'm using her farrier. I'm literally doing everything she did except the windstrol.
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| TessBelle - 2016-07-21 1:37 PM
horsiace1025 - 2016-07-21 7:40 AM
I agree, get in contact with someone that ran the horse when it did well and ask their opion or even see if you could get a private lesson and let them watch the horse work. 4 or 5 years off for a horse is a long time. I had a mare once that had 1 baby (off for a year) and it literally took 3 or 4 years to get her back where she was before she got bred. Sometimes it just takes time, and I think some horses just lose their fire when they dont do it for a long time.
The lady I bought him from is the one the owned him since a was a 2yr old. She has been little to no help. All she can do is tell me to give him this or that.
I'm using her feed. I'm using her vet. I'm using her farrier. I'm literally doing everything she did except the windstrol.
So I bought this really nice mare one time. I made a few nice runs on her but then literally couldn't get her out of the 3D/4D. I talked to the previous owner, she was pretty sure I had wrecked her mare, and I was absolutely sure that I had too. I was beside myself.
I got rid of her. Literally loaded her on a trailer from a barrel race after another epic fail, still sweaty (okay, I did cool her out...a little), that delivered her to the consigner the next morning. Horse was so nice she moved in 3 weeks.
Girl gets on her, starts throwing down 1D/2D and winning rodeos within weeks.
That mare, she just wouldn't run for me. She loved giving me attention, was a pleasure to ride, nickered when she saw me, I packed my stepkid around on her double. But there was just something about me that turned her completely off.
The best thing I did for her, and me, was send her to the next rider.
Just a thought...
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | classicpotatochip - 2016-07-21 9:22 PM
TessBelle - 2016-07-21 1:37 PM
horsiace1025 - 2016-07-21 7:40 AM
I agree, get in contact with someone that ran the horse when it did well and ask their opion or even see if you could get a private lesson and let them watch the horse work. 4 or 5 years off for a horse is a long time. I had a mare once that had 1 baby (off for a year) and it literally took 3 or 4 years to get her back where she was before she got bred. Sometimes it just takes time, and I think some horses just lose their fire when they dont do it for a long time.
The lady I bought him from is the one the owned him since a was a 2yr old. She has been little to no help. All she can do is tell me to give him this or that.
I'm using her feed. I'm using her vet. I'm using her farrier. I'm literally doing everything she did except the windstrol.
So I bought this really nice mare one time. I made a few nice runs on her but then literally couldn't get her out of the 3D/4D. I talked to the previous owner, she was pretty sure I had wrecked her mare, and I was absolutely sure that I had too. I was beside myself.
I got rid of her. Literally loaded her on a trailer from a barrel race after another epic fail, still sweaty (okay, I did cool her out...a little ), that delivered her to the consigner the next morning. Horse was so nice she moved in 3 weeks.
Girl gets on her, starts throwing down 1D/2D and winning rodeos within weeks.
That mare, she just wouldn't run for me. She loved giving me attention, was a pleasure to ride, nickered when she saw me, I packed my stepkid around on her double. But there was just something about me that turned her completely off.
The best thing I did for her, and me, was send her to the next rider.
Just a thought...
I've thought about this. I have a very good friend that could literally take a mule and make it into a 1D rodeo horse. She's even in the process of teaching a cow to run barrels just for the heck of it. I may let her try him and see if she can get anything out of him. Because of where I live I don't have the best access to the best trainers but I talked to several of the best we have and Lance Graves watched me ride him last fall and they've all said the same thing. That's it's just going to take time and that I need to get together with him. I agreed with that but I think it's been long enough and I think I'm pretty "together" with him. I gave all my horses a break durning the winter and focused on him until I was in a accident and couldn't ride and I learned a lot then. |
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| Sounds like the horse responded to the windstrol, I'm glad you don't give it too. very hard on a horse, it makes it unfair to the rest of us who put the well being of our horse first. Check your shoeing etc keep looking for answers maybe check t3 t4 levels. |
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| Could this horse be a bleeder? I bought one that had been drugged a lot, i detoxed the horse and used some herbs that were real popular i never see them anymore the lady selling them was very knowledgable, the horse also had allergys. We got the horse straightened up and it ran better without drugs!!! |
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| There is a possibility that the horse was injured so badly that it just can't run any faster. Do you have any idea how the horse was rehabbed or was it just turned out? A lot of factors there that can cause problems. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | streakysox - 2016-07-22 7:47 PM
There is a possibility that the horse was injured so badly that it just can't run any faster. Do you have any idea how the horse was rehabbed or was it just turned out? A lot of factors there that can cause problems.
I don't know about that. I haven't thought about that. I know the woman that owned him has the money to do everything necessary and according to the vet she sometime does more than what's necessary so I just assumed he was taken care of properly. |
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