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I AM being nice
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Location: MD | Stop riding your 8 year old like he's still a Futurity colt and he just might show you how nice he really is! That is all. I am done. Feel so much better now! | |
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 I Don't Brag
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| oes this apply to my finally broke 11 year old too?  | |
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| Dang girl he just an 8 year old I just started him when he was 4. Don't want to blow his mind. I just want a solid horse that will lope the pattern at a 1D time.   | |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 9:03 PM Stop riding your 8 year old like he's still a Futurity colt and he just might show you how nice he really is! That is all. I am done. Feel so much better now!
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I AM being nice
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Location: MD | Southtxponygirl - 2014-01-06 9:17 PM
WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 9:03 PM Stop riding your 8 year old like he's still a Futurity colt and he just might show you how nice he really is! That is all. I am done. Feel so much better now!
Andy do you need a hug? Sounds like you do,so here Â
Thanks!
Was watching videos of a very nice young horse who I was blessed to have my hand in starting. Then, I was watching more recent video of him, my ex on him and still riding him like a 4 year old. Actually, once I get calmed down a bit, I think this will make for a great thread on creating user friendly, solid Open horses. | |
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 Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 8:23 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-01-06 9:17 PM WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 9:03 PM Stop riding your 8 year old like he's still a Futurity colt and he just might show you how nice he really is! That is all. I am done. Feel so much better now! Andy do you need a hug? Sounds like you do,so here Thanks! Was watching videos of a very nice young horse who I was blessed to have my hand in starting. Then, I was watching more recent video of him, my ex on him and still riding him like a 4 year old. Actually, once I get calmed down a bit, I think this will make for a great thread on creating user friendly, solid Open horses.
At the risk of raising ire, I would love to know how to quit "training" and start riding like a competitor. I know my horse still needs work on the barrels and isn't quite finished, but we are trying to get there. Probably if I could quit the training mode, I might get further. :) No, I'm not going to divulge my horses's age...she'd never forgive me, LOL.
Southtxponygirl, you are so sweet! I'm glad we have you on BHW. | |
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| I have been having the opposite problem riding my 3/4 yr . I keep trying to ride like a finished horse other than I am not asking her to run all out yet. I trust her to do her job and allow her to make mistakes so I don't usually think about her not being finished yet. I ran her for the second time Wednesday and she had a nice lope through we were just under 2 seconds behind the winner and I really didn't ask her to run at all and had a big bobble on 2nd where she kind of hung coming out of it. I love watching the light bulb turn on when someone finally puts some faith in their horse and their own abilities as a rider and it all comes together. I am no expert but know you have to trust that they will do the job at some point and see what happens. This is just me I totally understand holding back and riding in training mode . I got hurt several years ago and still have trouble asking for all out speed .
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Location: Blissfully happy Giants fan!!! | WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 9:03 PM Stop riding your 8 year old like he's still a Futurity colt and he just might show you how nice he really is! That is all. I am done. Feel so much better now!
um does this double for "stop riding like you just started and ride like you have been riding your whole life?" Cause if that is the case, well...    | |
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 Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | mtcanchazer - 2014-01-06 7:30 PM WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 8:23 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-01-06 9:17 PM WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 9:03 PM Stop riding your 8 year old like he's still a Futurity colt and he just might show you how nice he really is! That is all. I am done. Feel so much better now! Andy do you need a hug? Sounds like you do,so here Thanks! Was watching videos of a very nice young horse who I was blessed to have my hand in starting. Then, I was watching more recent video of him, my ex on him and still riding him like a 4 year old. Actually, once I get calmed down a bit, I think this will make for a great thread on creating user friendly, solid Open horses.
Southtxponygirl, you are so sweet! I'm glad we have you on BHW.
I'm kind of here too... My mare is 9 this year. Full of potential. And I'm just stuck. I don't ride aggressive enough. I'm so worried about getting her around the barrels that I don't do much else. It's not even that she needs help. She's never knocked in a competing run. Never blows by. But I still get in her way to "help". LOL. She was started at 3. Turned out at 4. Used lightly at 5. And sat from 6 to 8 until I bought her. She's smart as a whip and quick when I leave her alone. First race I took her to, I was nervous and had a couple beers. Clocked a high 17 on a standard pattern. Ever since, I put so much "Effort" in doing everything and remembering everything... now I've clocked in the 18's to low 20's. Hahaha, some help I am. | |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | What exactly qualifies as riding a finished horse like they're still a futurity colt? Details?
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 I Am Always Right
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | YUP...we need a training thread, Andy. | |
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| He did have another thread up last night turning a young horse into an open horse or something like that. He put a lot of information in it. | |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | I think there are a lot more riders holding back their horses than there are horses holding back their riders. Most people will not push past their comfort zone to learn to ride full out to the horses potential. Young people are fearless and ride more to the horses potential. As we get older I think we start to worry about getting hurt in life and just don't push past that comfort zone. | |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | mtcanchazer - 2014-01-06 9:30 PM WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 8:23 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-01-06 9:17 PM WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 9:03 PM Stop riding your 8 year old like he's still a Futurity colt and he just might show you how nice he really is! That is all. I am done. Feel so much better now! Andy do you need a hug? Sounds like you do,so here Thanks! Was watching videos of a very nice young horse who I was blessed to have my hand in starting. Then, I was watching more recent video of him, my ex on him and still riding him like a 4 year old. Actually, once I get calmed down a bit, I think this will make for a great thread on creating user friendly, solid Open horses.
Southtxponygirl, you are so sweet! I'm glad we have you on BHW.
Awwww Thanks, if I could reach threw this screen I would be giving you and others on here a hug too. There is just so many that have a good heart on BHW. | |
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| Do you mean to tell me everyone else how climbed on him rode Bender better than I did because I don't know how to quit training????????? Cause you'd be right. | |
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Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | ~BINGO~ - 2014-01-07 7:47 AM mtcanchazer - 2014-01-06 7:30 PM WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 8:23 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-01-06 9:17 PM WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 9:03 PM Stop riding your 8 year old like he's still a Futurity colt and he just might show you how nice he really is! That is all. I am done. Feel so much better now! Andy do you need a hug? Sounds like you do,so here Thanks! Was watching videos of a very nice young horse who I was blessed to have my hand in starting. Then, I was watching more recent video of him, my ex on him and still riding him like a 4 year old. Actually, once I get calmed down a bit, I think this will make for a great thread on creating user friendly, solid Open horses.
Southtxponygirl, you are so sweet! I'm glad we have you on BHW.
That sooo sounds like me (only I didn't get my horse as finished, with the exception of one trainer putting 30 rides on her as a 5 y/o and another as a 9 y/o, I've done everything and barrel training too) and very similar histories about our horses (mine was turned out until she was 8 with the exception of the 30 rides). We've only knocked once in a competition setting, and that was my fault. But our fastest time ever was a time only of 21.486 on a standard pattern and I was so proud, and it has gone down hill from there. I know it has got to be me not doing something right. I think I'm trying to over think things and try to do or even teach too many things at once. If I could just kick and turn, I think I'd be the happiest person in the world. My mare has the pattern pretty well, so I think I need to take the approach of "Yeah, we might have knocked a barrel but did you see the turn on the first!" or something like that. 
Southtxponygirl, you are an angel. Thank you for the cyber hugs! Here's one back! | |
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I AM being nice
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Location: MD | mtcanchazer - 2014-01-07 7:00 PM
~BINGO~ - 2014-01-07 7:47 AM mtcanchazer - 2014-01-06 7:30 PM WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 8:23 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-01-06 9:17 PM WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 9:03 PM Stop riding your 8 year old like he's still a Futurity colt and he just might show you how nice he really is! That is all. I am done. Feel so much better now! Andy do you need a hug? Sounds like you do,so here  Thanks! Was watching videos of a very nice young horse who I was blessed to have my hand in starting. Then, I was watching more recent video of him, my ex on him and still riding him like a 4 year old. Actually, once I get calmed down a bit, I think this will make for a great thread on creating user friendly, solid Open horses.
Southtxponygirl, you are so sweet! I'm glad we have you on BHW.
Southtxponygirl, you are an angel. Thank you for the cyber hugs! Here's one back!
I've been known many times to come out on a less than seasoned/finished horse and say "Okay, I know we totally biffed the first, but did you see that sucker work those other two?!". There's certainly no shame in being happy about the things that go right and learning what you need to work on next! | |
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Location: Florida.. | I 'think" its called being a perfectionist in our riding and want our horses we train and work to be almost as well...we fine tune we perfect we strive we push we critique.. well you get the picture..and i am guilty of that.. as well | |
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Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | WrapSnap - 2014-01-07 7:11 PM mtcanchazer - 2014-01-07 7:00 PM ~BINGO~ - 2014-01-07 7:47 AM mtcanchazer - 2014-01-06 7:30 PM WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 8:23 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-01-06 9:17 PM WrapSnap - 2014-01-06 9:03 PM Stop riding your 8 year old like he's still a Futurity colt and he just might show you how nice he really is! That is all. I am done. Feel so much better now! Andy do you need a hug? Sounds like you do,so here Thanks! Was watching videos of a very nice young horse who I was blessed to have my hand in starting. Then, I was watching more recent video of him, my ex on him and still riding him like a 4 year old. Actually, once I get calmed down a bit, I think this will make for a great thread on creating user friendly, solid Open horses.
Southtxponygirl, you are so sweet! I'm glad we have you on BHW.
Southtxponygirl, you are an angel. Thank you for the cyber hugs! Here's one back! I've been known many times to come out on a less than seasoned/finished horse and say "Okay, I know we totally biffed the first, but did you see that sucker work those other two?!". There's certainly no shame in being happy about the things that go right and learning what you need to work on next!
Thanks WrapSnap...you have always been so kind in your barrel advice and wisdom. You make me smile and give me confidence and encouragement to go on. 
Bibliafarm, you are so right about the perfectionism...I know I'm a perfectionist, with horses or not, just my nature and I'm trying to change so I'm more laid back and go with the flow. Sometimes I think we (I) need to take a chill pill.   | |
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 Not Afraid to Work
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| GUILTY!!!!
This past season I really let my guy work and he went from being a pretty consistent 4D horse to a 2D horse! I bought him as an unbroke 6 year old so he got a late start but I really needed to stop riding him like a colt (hes' 11 now as of 2014), he proved just how good he can be.
Its hard to let go and deal with those mistakes. I am a perfectionist and want perfect, smooth barrels... but I tend to rest where we're both comfortable and we werent reaching our full potential. Its a hard thing to let go of, but glad I finally did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 | |
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