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Location: NE TX | What is your schedule during the week? How long, how hard, and how often do you ride/lunge your bleeder?
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Location: North Dakota -> Colorado | Flamin10 - 2017-02-14 10:36 AM What is your schedule during the week? How long, how hard, and how often do you ride/lunge your bleeder? Just curious to see how every one else does things
I'm of the belief that you need to have a bleeder in really really good shape. Start of small and then increase until they are where they need to be. |
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Location: Deep South | Good article.
https://thoroedge.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/eiph-if-youre-not-breezin... |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | The only time my horses get a day off..bleeder or no bleeder..is the day after a jackpot...or its to cold....long trot and long trot with a little loping....m |
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| 3 or 4 days a week I long trot to 2 or 3 songs, lope one, walk 5 or 10 minutes then repeat. I play my music on the speaker and as soon as my horses hear it they know to get started. Same program for all my horses, I alternate who gets ridden or ponied |
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Location: NE TX | Oh good, I'm not the only one who times my ride to songs. 
I typically walk for 1 song each direction, trot one song each direction, lope half a song each direction, walk half a song each direction, work some drills for a song or two then walk for 5 minutes and get off. She's my only one I have so I don't have others that need to be ridden or cared for. I try to ride every day right now but there are some days I'm just too tired after work so she gets fed and turned out.
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Location: NE Texas | BamaCanChaser - 2017-02-14 10:55 AM Good article. https://thoroedge.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/eiph-if-youre-not-breezin...
Great article and I completely agree! I truly believe bleeding starts more times than not due to lack of competition specific exercise. Loping circles and long trotting isn't getting a horse ready for 4 short sprints. Think of how sick and injured (and slow) a human sprinter would be if they just sat around all day, ate snickers and drank Dr. Pepper, and worked long slow distance for about 30 minutes, never elevating their heart rate enough, 6 days a week, then went out and ran their hearts out at a competition. |
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Location: Illinois | I start mine with 3-4 days a week for the first couple weeks. Mine is also a roarer so I take it pretty slow to build him up. My workouts are also music based. For example my first ride: 1 song walking right (usually involves basic circles, flexing, hip in, moving off leg & not just following rail), 1 song easy trot. Then switch left and easy trot one song. Then walk 1 song and repeat that at a decent/long trot of varying speeds. After that I walk one song, lope 1 song one direction, walk a song, lope other direction for 1 song, and then my cool out is 2-3 songs depending on song length and how he is breathing. I typically ride him 1.5 months before the first barrel race. By the time he's fully legged up he'll do 3 songs easy trot each way, 3 songs long tot each way, and around 6 songs loping at various speeds, including sprints/breezing. And he'll do that 4 days a week and then I try to do something a little easier 2 days a week like going trail riding for a couple hours or just going down the road in the ditches or something. Last year I wasn't able to do that much with him and I could tell the difference in him as he dropped from hitting the 2D/3D depending on size of show, to barely scraping by for checks in the 4D. |
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