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| When you go into the arena do you let them run in when they're super on the muscle and ready to go or do you fight them to get them to relax when walking in?
I wonder if people who force their horses to walk in calmly are causing their own gate issues?
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  Queen Boobie 2
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| 3canchaser01 - 2014-07-17 7:20 AM
When you go into the arena do you let them run in when they're super on the muscle and ready to go or do you fight them to get them to relax when walking in?
I wonder if people who force their horses to walk in calmly are causing their own gate issues?
It just depends on the feel I am getting. If I feel like they are focused and looking for the 1st barrel, I may let them go.
I think you have a point that you can fight them too much going in, but you can also create a monster by letting them go too much, some horses get stronger and stronger until they really need some correction.
It's all in the feel and knowing your horse. IMO |
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 Ms. Elvis
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Location: Running barrels or watching nascar | On one of my horses, I pivot before I hit the arena. It helps to send her. If I don't do this, she comes into the arena like a dog. On my other horse, I try to hold up until I hit the threshold of the gate before I take off, but if its a run in n out setup, I send her through. |
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Miracle in the Making
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| depends on the horse our speed mare if we held she was a idiot if we let her roll depending on arnea she would come back to us to rate otherwise we might say hi to the crowd |
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Expert
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Location: WI | I don't force him to relax, but I do make him wait on me to go. |
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 I'm Cooler Offline
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Location: Pacific Northwest | Like others have said, depends on the horse. My mare is ALWAYS looking for her first barrel so it doesn't matter how she acts going into the arena. She waits for me though; she might feel antsy but she won't run until I ask, and she's perfectly fine having to walk all the way into an arena if she has to.
My gelding reaches a point where if he's too excited, then he's not focused. If I feel him acting amped up at a race I usually get off and handwalk him before our run because it settles him down. |
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Location: In Husker Land | I like if possible to get a good running start, but my horse loves this kind of set up. She loves running starts.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lSRX4w_mmJg |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | I think it all depends on the horse. If I had a good rodeo horse that knows his job, I would not make him walk into the arena. I wouldn't allow him to be a nightmare or be dangerous of course. Now an unseasoned horse, I would make sure he's listening and calm and not unruly. |
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| I try to keep them quiet in the holding pen and just walk or stand in a corner, then when it's our turn to run I let them go do their job. I don't force them to relax or fight them but I do my best to keep them quiet. |
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 Party Girl
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | It all depends on which horse I am on. Right now I only have one horse I can send hard into the arena all the others are still being seasoned.
The one horse I can send I used to try and ease up the mouth of the allery until she gave me the bird one day. She smoked a run so now I know I can pretty much send her from where ever.
This is the run she gave me the bird on, got by first a bit and still clocked. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXIF6kuQ5bQ
This is the following day. We nailed our first and clocked just a tiny bit faster than the day before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIcW4mnhQIQ |
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