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| What kind of excercises/practices would you recomend to help my horse get her butt down around barrels? I never know if she will blow or turn the first barrel because she doesn't get down and sit.
-She turns fine but doesn't scoot in or out of there |
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| Well, some horses won't sit down, that is just a style some have. My mare was very upright and hated to get down, but it made her better for bad ground. Horses that really get down are more likely to fall down in bad dirt (just from my experience, that isn't proven or anything, just something I've noticed). What it sounds like you need is rate if you don't think she's going to turn. What I do is lope them up to the barrel, stop and back up and let them settle there. I do that until they rate automatically, that gets them thinking turn instead of still running. |
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Location: Texas | Get the vet to check if she is sore in her hocks. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I teach my horse away from the barrels and I exaggerate- I start off at a walk and say whoa and sit down deep- when the horse does that without me asking with my hands also-I move to a trot and then up to a lope. then pretty soon you can go a little faster than a lope and all you will have to do is sit and say whoa- my horse I don't even have to say whoa I can just start to sit and I feel him start shutting down to stop. It is the neatest feeling when they do this without having to use reins! It takes awhile and I don't do all time because they will get where they anticipate. then I use at whatever barrel I need rate and if you really need rate I have done it about a barrel racer before my time to remind him. hope this helps :)) |
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| When you stop and back her up at the rate point make sure you backing and moving her hips in towards the barrel. That way she keeps her inside leg up under her. I lot of times I see girls stop and back but the let their horse move out and away from the barrel. That's going to get the horse to swinging their butt and not keeping that inside hip under them. You can also try stoping at your rate point reverse arching a complete circle and then turning the barrel. This will keep her shoulder up and her hip in. |
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Location: White Mountains of AZ | whynotbarrelrace - 2014-12-23 4:15 PM
What kind of excercises/practices would you recomend to help my horse get her butt down around barrels? I never know if she will blow or turn the first barrel because she doesn't get down and sit.
-She turns fine but doesn't scoot in or out of there
A lot of rollbacks. Down the fence, stop, turn over haunches, push out hard. Then after they have that, I'll just randomly rollbacks out in the middle of nowhere. I like to make sure my horses can stop with just my seat before I work barrels, so by the time I start, I can sit at my rate spot, and they drop their butt to turn and push hard! |
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| Awesome, thank you guys!(: |
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Location: The Saudia Arabia of Wind Energy, Western Oklahoma | Another thing you can do is each day take you horse out and lope a circle and a certain point in the circle stop him. Each time he goes around ask him to stop in that spot until he goes up to that spot and stops on his own using only your body language (sitting down) without using the rein. When he does that cosistently on his own quit him and get off. Do that for a week or so and see if you can transition that into your barrel work. |
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