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 Location: Piedmont, OK | Clampitt gave the perfect example of how to teach rate! | |
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       Location: USA | run n rate - 2016-05-12 11:26 AM "Do you happen to have a link to purchase this bridle? And what exercises have you used to keep her collected and turning and not blowing by the barrel? What do you use in competition? Do you use a tie down? Sorry for all the questions but TIA!" Sorry, I totally missed the other questions other than the link to purchase, LOL!!! As far as exercises to keep her collected and turning and not blowing by we did all the ones we had for YEARS in the every other bit I had tried on her, stop at your rate point, walk the turn, stop on the backside of the barrel And back in an arc to the rate point to really try to work "shortest stride here" with her making sure she was collected up in my hands and legs and reaching under herself. We had even done the stop and soak multiple times headed to a barrel to try to find the "relax" button, really the only thing before the Fast Stop that worked was counter arcs because it naturally sets their hip and brings their body into collection in order to do it. We did all those drills again with the Fast Stop starting at the walk more because I was terrified I'd grab her head and flip her over because she is a very reactive mare, light until you hit speed. I used the Pretzel for a competition bridle though my second year at Pendleton a freind had borrowed it and didnt' get it back to me so we went with a 2 piece twisted locked Ed bit and we were totally fine but I did warm her up in the Fast Stop :-) I aint stupid, LOL!!! Nor was I interested in going on a trail ride after hauling 12 hours for it. No tie down, I had tried the head setter tie down a few years ago with her because when she didnt' rate she would get her head up in the turns, put her nose to her chest and stay long strided which sored her up pretty good every time, we had also tried the german martingale, helped some but really the problem was just not getting a true rate/collected position. Slowing down is not rating especially with one that is long strided and tends to lose their brain when you hit the go button.
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       Location: Missouri | livexlovexrodeo - 2016-05-03 5:20 PM
Stay off their face. It's terrifying and feels like you're on a runaway and I usually gave mine a good bump if he really felt like he wasn't listening but other than that I had to stay off his face or he would get really bracey and blow his turns. He had impeccable slow work though and always anticipated his rate points when I did slow work with him so I knew during a run I had to just trust him and stay off of him.
This sounds a lot like my mare! But yes, if I don't stay off her face, she braces and blows past the turn about a stride or so. If I trust her and leave her head alone, she's great. I've learned to use my seat a lot with her. | |
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      Location: Saskatchewan | I school my free-running monster in a smooth snaffle and a running martengale, so in my opinion, no bit is going to be a substitute for good training.
I really found that spirals and shutting her down helped. Say, if I'm going to lope at the barrel, I'll let her lope a circle around it, and break down to a long trot, and gradually shut her down to a calm walk on a loose rein where I only have to bump her with my leg to keep that bend around the barrel and hip in. As soon as I get that nice walk with her head down, I'll leave that barrel and move on to the next.
Things are also much worse the more I get all up in her business. Sometimes, I forget that she's a big horse with a big motor and a big stride and I'm asking her to lope like a little horse with a smaller motor. It's kind of not fair to ask her to do that. That's what I find so intimidating about those types of horses! | |
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