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| My hore is 6 this year but hasn't been hauled a lot. She knows the pattern but not well enough to be pushed. But when I haul her and exhibition she gets super ancy/hot when I try to lope that she isn't even trying to do the pattern right. After that I ran her in the competition and she did fine.
I am just worried if I don't exhibition she will be scared of things in the arena during the competition. What do you think? |
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| My gelding did this ... he would bounce around during exhibitions ... hes just a goof because hes quiet as can be in all other areas but when I took him to exhibitions he thought it was go time. I eventually just tried not doing them and he did fine.
Do they offer warm-ups? Sometimes those are better because other horses are in the arena and you get barrels but also get rail work done to show them the sites. |
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Location: Idaho | Exhibitions are horse specific. Some horses need to go in feel the ground and be reminded what they are doing in there that day. Other horses, it makes them hot and they find things to spook at. Id let her pick a speed. Maybe not try to make her got slow and do any training. Just go do a practice run at her speed. That way you can see if she is going to go in and hunt the barrels or if she is going to need more guidance from you in your run. A slightly faster speed might help the gawking and finding distractions :) |
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Location: California | She is being disrespesctful. I don't care if you wanted her to back the whole pattern, if that's what you asked of her, she should do it. You need control of her mind and feet. Any time she goes faster or behaves bad, one rein stop her. Make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy. It could start out as refusing to properly do TO's, but then manifest into something else, and before you know if she's refusing to properly do a competition run. jmo.
Edited by *almost there* 2014-06-19 8:04 AM
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| We do get open arena before the exhibitions and jackpot starts, I think that is what I will try to do so I can get her to see the sights and feel the ground. Thanks for your help!(: |
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Location: Where ever there's sunshine! | Sounds to me like he doesn't need exhibitions. Maybe he's ready to just start seasoning. Leave the pattern work alone keep him legged up and work him on basics to keep his head on him and just enter him.. |
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Location: Central Texas | BleuIdGrl - 2014-06-19 2:47 PM
Sounds to me like he doesn't need exhibitions. Maybe he's ready to just start seasoning. Leave the pattern work alone keep him legged up and work him on basics to keep his head on him and just enter him..
I agree. Why cause issues if you do not need to. If your horse is telling you she's ready then let her do her job. My gelding was much the same when he was starting out. He knew what he was doing long before I decided he did. I caused him needless irritation and nervousness doing slow paced exhibitions. I was tied up with another horse one time and my son exhibitioned him for me. He allowed him to choose a high lope. No fussing or fighting at all. I, of course, freaked out until I saw what had been staring me in the face for some time. He was pass slow exhibitions. Good luck! |
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| Thanks for the advice! I will defnitely try not exhibitioning and see how she performs! |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | *almost there* - 2014-06-19 8:00 AM She is being disrespesctful. I don't care if you wanted her to back the whole pattern, if that's what you asked of her, she should do it. You need control of her mind and feet. Any time she goes faster or behaves bad, one rein stop her. Make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy. It could start out as refusing to properly do TO's, but then manifest into something else, and before you know if she's refusing to properly do a competition run. jmo.
I'm of this mindset.
You said yourself that she's not been hauled a lot, that she kind of knows the pattern but not well enough to be pushed.
If she's hot & disrepsectful and not listening and she's not even seasoned yet, what's going to happen when you start pushing her more and asking for more speed? They learn from repetition -- You'll get even more hotness and even more disresepct and not listening. It doesn't get any better the more you push them -- it gets worse if you don't get things under control and teach them to listen.
Horses like that you have to pay very close attention to their warm up and plan it and manage it well. Get there early, stay relaxed, don't saddle up right away -- let her stand for a while and let her take things in. If she's not paying attention when you go to get on, work her on the ground and don't get on until her mind is truly on you - inside eye, inside ear will tell you that. Once you've got her mind, then get on her.
I'd do some slow exhbitions at a trot and maybe even stop at your rate point -- anything to get her in that evironment and put her in that position and make her realize it's not strictly about going fast, that she needs to think too.
Something else that may help too is setting up routine and cues for when you run and be specific and consistent with those. For instance, use different hand positions for when it's time to go slow -vs- time to go fast so that she knows the difference. Mine I use one hand while I'm waiting and two hands to run.
Almost there is right... you get the feet you'll get the mind. You don't need to go any faster until you get that. Think of it this way...... would you drive a dump truck out on the interstate that "Kind of" steered and "kind of" stopped? No. Yo don't need to increase speed on a horse that kind of listens.
Get the seasoning first and get her listening. The speed will come naturally after that. It's easy to speed a horse up. It's hard to slow one down and get control after the fact. |
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