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Location: Loma Linda, CA | ~BINGO~ - 2014-12-17 10:27 AM
Phxbarrel - 2014-12-16 6:39 PM I've always done barrel horses here :P Me at 14 I think.  
It was in Flagstaff... Kind of in a forest area, but I don't remember the name of it. It's been well over 11 years now lol. |
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Posts: 667
| I showed saddlebreds and standardbreds from the time I was 4 till about 22. I was a world champion when I was 8. I also showed hunter jumpers when I was 15 -17 yrs old and I had reiners for a short time and now I have barrel horses and rope horses.
This is the only pic that I have on my phone of my saddlebred days. I have oh so many at home...
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Posts: 762
Location: NC | Started out running barrels at 6/7
Then went english
Know mainly barrels with some english occasionally |
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Posts: 628
Location: Missouri | Thank you to everyone replying. This is so much fun. I myself started riding when I was 1 or 2 but started out with Tennessee walking horses, then American Saddle Breds, Hunter jumpers when I was 7 or 8, Western Pleasure when I was 10, cutting horses came when I was about 11-12, and barrel horses started early but I started on a Tennessee walking horse at a local saddle club. I did high school rodeo and during that time I showed cattle all over the country. LOVE showing cattle but sadly I am too old to do the junior shows any more, now I just travel around and help out at Denver, Kansas City, Louisville and anywhere else I am needed.
Horses have always been in my life and I have always had a trainer until I started riding barrel horses professionally. Weird. I think having a well rounded background in all disciplines of riding really helps with becoming a better horseman. |
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 Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Phxbarrel - 2014-12-17 10:11 AM ~BINGO~ - 2014-12-17 10:27 AM Phxbarrel - 2014-12-16 6:39 PM I've always done barrel horses here :P Me at 14 I think. It was in Flagstaff... Kind of in a forest area, but I don't remember the name of it. It's been well over 11 years now lol.
LOL, it's Fort Tuthill. That's what it looked like from the pictures. I live in Flagstaff. They still hold a gymkhana series there each year. |
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| Been horsecrazy my whole life! Grew up around a race track, but got into barrel racing when I was about 10. The first two pictures were on my 4th birthday, riding around my aunt's good barrel horse. The last picture was my first race with him when I was 12; he had starting slowing down, and she handed him down to me. He was my first "real" barrel horse (not pony!), and I credit him with igniting my barrel racing fire.
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Red Bull Agressive
Posts: 5981
Location: North Dakota | MS2011 - 2014-12-17 10:03 AM Riding like a wild indian on the ranch and hunter/jumpers. I got tired of only getting trophies and no $$$$, so I swapped to running barrels. The top horse I showed in both hunters, he would go slow and look pretty....then change bridles, slap some boots on him and run around the jumper ring. He was 14.3 and had a huge heart.
Are those some rust breeches I spy? I seriously am obsessed w/ rust breeches. |
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Posts: 1229
Location: Royal J Performance Horses, AZ | I dont have "old days before barrel horses" Ive always been in the barrel world.
Well to be honest we started out at gymkhanas as kids! But honeslty ive never tried a different discipline. I'd really like to though! |
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