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| I got this gelding about a month and a half ago. I loved him from the beginning he has the best personality. I have him cantering a nice pattern at home. He is just the laziest horse I've ever swung a leg over. Everything he is dragging. I try to do new things everyday to get him feet moving and nothing makes a difference I'm ready to start adding speed and don't know how to get it started. I tried asking for speed just on a straight track and it's like he doesn't know how to run yet. He will tuck his butt under and hop then smooth out but you go to move again and he'll tuck and bounce. I just don't know if he will have it. I just wanted some advice if you have had a lazy horse and it's turned how nice. He is a 15.3 gelding. High brow cat grandson on top and rocket ranger bred on bottom. He's extremely smart. His registered name is Passem Rocket Cat. Thankyou! |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Yep. And I sold her.
No matter what I did to hustle her (on and off the pattern), she stayed slow and lazy. She was perfectly happy in a nice slow lope. She is now a trail horse. A.Slow.Trail.Horse. |
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Location: Kansas | My grey mare I have now was like that. It took alot of patience, curse words and miles to finally get her to do anything faster than a walk LOL |
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Location: louisiana | that sounds like my barrel horse i have now, I did a lot of long trottin with him and roll backs off the fence, also when I put him on TMD buy equidite he really got a lot more energy wanting to run and go faster than a lope. hes by serenas high kaliber |
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| Turn him into a kid's barrel horse. Ive had 2 horses like and I couldnt get speed out of them. Sold both to kids and its been the best decision ever. Some horses dont have the drive to go any faster. |
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| How old is the horse? You may have to take him to a track or in a big, open, safe pasture and teach him to run by breezing him several times. I raised a gelding that is the doggiest thing I've ever ridden. Put a pair of spurs on him and touch him with them to let him know you have them and he is a totally different horse. He'll move out nicely with just leg pressure for the rest of the day. one other thing would be to check the saddle for fit-maybe that's causing him to tuck his rear end and not want to move out.
Edited by BMW 2014-07-14 10:30 PM
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | ~BINGO~ - 2014-07-14 11:40 AM
Yep. And I sold her.
No matter what I did to hustle her (on and off the pattern), she stayed slow and lazy. She was perfectly happy in a nice slow lope. She is now a trail horse. A.Slow.Trail.Horse.
Lol I had this exact same situation. I sold her pretty dang quickly, she was just SO exhausting to ride. |
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Location: South | I have a mare that is EXACTLY what you are describing. I bought her as a young horse and started her myself. She is as lazy as a yard dog. Never gets in any hurry, just pokes along everywhere. Now don't get me wrong, she will lope/run once you ask her about a million times. Since I've owned her I have found a few things that have worked for us though to increase her "drive". I long trot during the week all around our farm to loosen her up and get her muscles moving. I have found that her being in a closed environment such as an arena or pen to slow work the pattern makes her more lazy so we do everything in the pasture wide open. I have also found that she LOVES cattle, chasing cattle, cutting cattle, penning cattle, cattle interest her all around. So I try to involve her with cows as much as possible. However I bought her as a barrel prospect, and she runs a pretty pattern clocking 4D times with limited hauling. She is also the type I can calmly go ride on a Sunday afternoon and never have to get in a hurry, unlike my finished on the go horse. I have come to the conclusion that if she never gets faster, she will make me a heck of cow horse, and I"m okay with that. Since me and my husband has about 50 head of cattle that we use her with. But I often wonder if we didn't have her as our "cowhorse" would her gray dapples and long flowing mane help her stay?
Edited by trobertson 2014-07-15 8:15 AM
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