grinandbareit - 2015-07-29 10:21 PM Let me first say that the big misnomer is that cutting bred horses are quiet... Cutters can be really nervous horses, LOTS of them are. There are just as many blown up cutters as there are blown up barrel horses. The problem with this type of horse it that most of their anxiety is internal rather than external. Speed is what gets them. I'm guessing that she "scrambles" around her barrels and wastes precious time because she does it more scared than with confidence. She probably fooled you early in her training and made you think she was ready to add speed when in fact she wasn't. I would slow her back down and keep her at a speed that she can stay relaxed. Make the barrels just another exercise. Scatter them around the arena and just lope around them in random order while doing other things like loping circles, stops and slow relaxed rollbacks. Give her some Mare Magic and easy on the grain. You're feed program can help a lot too. Good luck.