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| So, I don't have a good place to breeze my horse but my arena. I have a couple of fields but not safe enough to breeze ... Anyone in the same situation? what do you do?  |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | No hay fields around?? I don't have the most ideal places to breeze out either. The usual places have all been planted, and even the hay fields that aren't out of my way they ripped up and planted. I have an arena that I can haul to that has a decent place to open one up, but it's short. You may be able to look into local arenas or boarding facilities to see if you can't haul somewhere and breeze one out. |
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| We do have hay fields around but with the hay season around the corner, riding on them is out of the question. I really do need to push my horse to run (and myself, I posted something before about being scared to death to run him but I need to put my big girl panties on and just DO IT). My arena is a good size with great footing but the space is still limited. Can you breeze them in the arena? (I know, probably that was a very stupid question, but I never breezed one so bare with me)  |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | I have done it before in an arena just because the horse wasn't firing inside the arena. Usually once of that and she was good. Then it was weekly breezing outside of the arena. But hey, if that's the only place you got then just make the best with what you have. This nice thing is that once the hay is out of the fields you can ride there for a while again. |
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| I breeze in a fairly grown up, uneven cotton field on the edge of a busy business oilfield road LOL ......and I wear my helmet. Luckily all of mine are off the track, so they run straight and I dont have to worry about them being distracted by the welders or fuel trucks that think "racing" me is fun. Its a gamble no matter where you breeze one....When I lived in New Mexico I would have to drive off a little and park to go breeze them in a field. I would just warm up at the house, load horses, park, breeze, walk back, grab another horse and do the same. |
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Location: North Dakota | I breeze my horses in places that some people would consider unsafe. But I guess that's what I grew up doing, on the family farm.
Open summer fallow field? Perfect.
Long stretch of freshly mowed hayfield? There ya go.
Old worn section line trail? Giddy up.
At the last place I boarded, there were two main spots that I would breeze, where they were long enough (over 1/2 mile) and flat enough to do so. One was basically a ditch with some 4-wheeler tracks in it. The other was alongside a paved biking path (not running ON the pavement, but on the grass beside it). Both places got the job done and gave the horses room to run and stretch out. Yeah, might be a gopher hole here and there, but the ground is never perfect at a rodeo either. 
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| Growing up, we always raced/breezed ours up through the hay fields, which were uphill and really helped their wind.
Nowadays, I haul to the local racetrack at the fairgrounds. I'm lucky, because ours is open year round and they keep it worked up fairly consistently. Sometimes the tracks are locked off, or hard as a rock. |
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| I currently don't have anywhere to breeze either... None of the gone around me is flat nor big enough fields without a big ditch or tree line. I've been thinking about hauling to the local race track but even that one is lime. |
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Location: Fort Bragg North Carolina | I don't have a place to breeze either so in the arena I run the long fences shorten stride on the short fences that's about the only way I can work out the lungs |
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