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When seasoning one, what’s your average amount of jackpots to attend on a weekly or monthly basis? What do you think is too much?
I think it depends on the maturity level of the horse you are seasoning. I always only made maybe 4-5 runs a month but it took me longer to season one. I did, however, give them time off when they were doing their best. They always came back stronger and more solid. Hauling and standing tied, just riding around and not making a run is an important part of seasoning one too.
It absolutely depends on the individual horse. The last one I seasoned was a teenager when I got him so I could haul him more frequently than a 4 year old. He probably went to 2-3 races a month through the winter and spring, and then got hauled to rodeos as a grand entry horse and buddy throughout the summer plus hit 1-2 barrel races a month.
I started hauling my 3yo last year to many places. Rode her at most of them mid-summer on, and did a couple of trotting exhibitions. I'm saving her for 5yo Futurities since I live where there's winter and she didn't get started until fall of her 2yo year, and really rode until last summer.
I'm planning on exhibitioning her more this summer and hauling to local arenas to do practice work, since my ground at home is junk. In the late summer/fall I'll probably do some paid race exhibitions/time only's to get some times from her and see how we're doing.
I'm not going to haul her every week or every weekend, even when I'm competing. Don't want to burn her out before she even gets started. I'm old fashioned when I say once, maybe twice during the week, and then a weekend. I won't go during the week when I have a 3 day weekend coming up. I know some people run 4-5 days in a week. Not me.
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