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| Hello everyone, I recently purchased a Bug In My Frosty colt from Jud Little. Well I bought him while he was just loping on the pattern. He really has a neat riding style, and I feel he is going to be a bang up horse, but he's got some issues that I have tried everything I know to do with him. They just don't seem to work. For starters, he goes into his first really hard, and wants to be really snappy and turny, but when hes leaving the barrel he stalls out. So I tried giving him more room to get around the barrel, and I have tried a lighter bit in his mouth, ive even tried getting up between his ears and smooching him. But he just he gets around it really well then stalls out going to the next barrel. Then, on his second he really wants to dive in hard, and hes a 16 hh. horse he cant do that very well. so when he dives in hard he really has to gather himself and comes off the barrel wide. Ive tried a bigger pocket picking him up with my feet, ive tried going slow to get him to go a step past the barrel and come back, but he still wants to really dive hard. I have tried starting to get him to rate which he will occasionally do it himself but a lot of times I catch myself having to sit down a little harder and talk to him. Now I realize he's not going to doing all of this well because he is only 3, but I just want to better himself and put him on the right track to do so. And I cant quite wrap my head around why he really turns hard, and makes a perfect turn around his third, but he cant make the same turn around his second. its the same concept and his third barrel is his best barrel by far! I just was looking for some tips, and some new ideas to try when I go to work him again. thank yall! Kelsey. |
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Fire Ant Peddler
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| I would suggest a clinic where the clinician can see what the horse is doing and can help you correct it. Everyone needs a clinic now and then. I have know Martha Josey for many years and even she says you get stagnant if you don't get help once in awhile. I just work 4 miles from their ranch and have signed up fro one of their clinics in Nov. You have spent that kind of money buying the horse. Spend the money for a clinic and get things down right. |
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  Whack and Roll
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Location: NE Texas | Sounds to me like he's been rushed a little bit in his training or needs some tuning and a touch up. Is he a young horse or an aged horse? I would encourage you to find someone to go ride with or find out who started/trained him to see if maybe you could go ride with them and get some pointers? |
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| He is only 3, and I do think he was rushed as well, because when I got him home he really wanted to just go and make a full on rodeo run, and I had to back him down, and we did lots of slow work, and I know who started him out at Jud Little, and she no longer works out there, but I am really close with the head trainer out there, and maybe I need to go and ride with her for a little while. thanks for yalls help. |
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Veteran
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Location: Heart of Texas | Have you tried breezing him? Maybe he's been taken slow for so long it's what he's comfortable with. Let him remember what it feels like to run again. Make him associate a smooch with RUN. |
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 Coyote Country Queen
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| I agree that going to ride with someone who can watch and help is going to be the most helpful. I had several thoughts when I read your description, but since we can't actually see what he's doing I might be totally off! Is he rating at all going into the barrel, or is he trying to get gathered up on the backside? That could potentially be the cause of the stall leaving one. Could also be a problem at two with the diving. When is he changing leads at the second? If he's changing at the barrel that might be where the dive is coming from. And it might be worth it to have him vetted in case he's sore somewhere. |
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 Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | Herbie - 2014-10-14 10:36 AM Sounds to me like he's been rushed a little bit in his training or needs some tuning and a touch up. Is he a young horse or an aged horse? I would encourage you to find someone to go ride with or find out who started/trained him to see if maybe you could go ride with them and get some pointers?
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Sock Snob
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| Are sure he is not sore,somewhere. Cause if he is dumping on his forehand on second. And stallling out of the first. Maybe he got overworked. Maybe a small previcox for a week and see where he is. |
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