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  Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Just totally random, for no reason, question. But how often do your local shows, of any sanction or jackpot, drag? After 5? After 10? |
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 Texas Lone Star
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Location: where ever my L/Q trl is parked | I personally would like to see them rake after every horse then drag after say 20/25. I've had horses that run better in fresh ground (no tracks) and have a few that ran good after one horse. I seem to get the bottom of the ground (last one in my draw) where ever I enter, so guess it doesn't matter. |
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Miracle in the Making
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| i know every arena different dirt is different but my pen we can drag on 10 and the ground beas good for 1 as its for last but for nbha it was 5. my pen is good ole ga red dirt we had a revel
and my son was good at it.
now it sits vacant |
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Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I'm catching not so good attitudes from a small handful of ppl because I am refusing to attend a district show that is Co sanctioned with another NBHA district that drags every ten. I don't like it even though I prefer bottom ground. My theory is if I personally don't like it then I just don't go. I never argued with them on it. There's too many other races to attend that drag every 5. I guess when you have a nice 1D horse or you are someone like me who worries even if it's a 4D horse, you get a little pickier |
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 Thick and Wavy
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Location: Nebraska | Aqhaczy - 2014-08-31 5:07 PM I personally would like to see them rake after every horse then drag after say 20/25. I've had horses that run better in fresh ground (no tracks) and have a few that ran good after one horse. I seem to get the bottom of the ground (last one in my draw) where ever I enter, so guess it doesn't matter.
that would take forever to get through the barrel race! The one I go to the most rakes after every 5 and can run about 50 an hour. I couldn't imagine doing it after every one plus every 20-25. |
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 More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Around here it's mostly every 10. Every once in a while they do 6 or 7 but never 10. |
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 Not Afraid to Work
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| Its common to do every 5 or 7 around here |
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 A Lady with Fight
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Location: NC | 5 for NBHA shows. 8 for another local association but that ground holds up pretty well to 8 horses. |
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 Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | Here it depends on the number of entries. The place I go to most usually only has about 18-20 runners usually fewer, but if there is 18 runners, they usually rake/drag every 6. Our NBHA shows tend to rake/drag every 5. Here I'm not sure they know the difference between a rake and a drag...I always just say drag because they get the tractor out each time and go over it with the barrels gone. |
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 Making the post season
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Location: your guess is as good as mine | Every 5 is standard for around here...big or little jackpots. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | Most smaller races by me do every 1o
Our bigger arena neaby did every 7 last weekend. For the "big" shows they get two tractors and drag after 5. |
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 Own It and Move On
Location: The edge of no where | Cant remember the last time I saw more than 5 go on a drag at a barrel race. We've got tons of large shows to pick from......I think if they didn't drag every 5, attendance would be hurt. Nbha isn't a huge deal here, went to the moonshine run in glen rose this wknd....nbha people were running it, it was very poorly run. |
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| MS2011 - 2014-09-01 9:18 AM
Cant remember the last time I saw more than 5 go on a drag at a barrel race. We've got tons of large shows to pick from......I think if they didn't drag every 5, attendance would be hurt. Nbha isn't a huge deal here, went to the moonshine run in glen rose this wknd....nbha people were running it, it was very poorly run.
same here, I don't think I've been to a race in years that didn't drag after every 5, big drag every 50. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | Problem is with some of the shows, if they drug every 5 it would be a tractor show instead of a horse show... our local saddle clubs often don't have the best equipment and never have two tractors.
The ground holds up in most pens but in some, it doesn't, and it does hurt attendence at those places.
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 Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | Wow, didn't even know there was another option. I've been running for 7 years now and around here (Central TX) they always drag at 5, and most shows have a big drag at 50.
Edited by cranky B4 10am 2014-09-01 9:44 AM
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | cranky B4 10am - 2014-09-01 9:42 AM Wow, didn't even know there was another option. I've been running for 7 years now and around here (Central TX) they always drag at 5, and most shows have a big drag at 50.
Same here, every 5 drag, 50 big drag do the whole area and alley way and the bigger shows when they get to a 100 the really big drags, most time 3 tractors working the bigger shows they work the ground really nice making sure all is level. |
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Location: Silex, MO | Ok, I understand wanting more drags at the larger shows however at the smaller shows when your already getting crap that the shows take to long and you can NOT get help with setting up barrels, dragging every 5 is only going to make your shows longer. Don't get me wrong would love the drag every 5 thing or 7. However, looking at a view point of someone that has to get help at each and every show NOT so much fun. All you hear on the PA system is we need help, we need barrel setters. NOT everyone is so quick to get up and help or off their horses but they are quick to witch about it. The only good thing about these shows is I don't have to go to a gym for a work out I get one every weekend. The I laugh when people ask how do you stay so thin. I might be looking at this the wrong way but I am looking at this on the other side of the fence. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Gryphon - 2014-09-01 10:12 AM
Ok, I understand wanting more drags at the larger shows however at the smaller shows when your already getting crap that the shows take to long and you can NOT get help with setting up barrels, dragging every 5 is only going to make your shows longer. Don't get me wrong would love the drag every 5 thing or 7. However, looking at a view point of someone that has to get help at each and every show NOT so much fun. All you hear on the PA system is we need help, we need barrel setters. NOT everyone is so quick to get up and help or off their horses but they are quick to witch about it. The only good thing about these shows is I don't have to go to a gym for a work out I get one every weekend. The I laugh when people ask how do you stay so thin. I might be looking at this the wrong way but I am looking at this on the other side of the fence.
Most of the shows here have people that are willing to work and good tractor drivers, and most of the time there are 2 tractors working the arena so it gos by alot faster. |
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Own It and Move On
Location: The edge of no where | I've never been to a wknt jackpot that didn't drag every 5. Its not just big shows. Within an hour of me there are jackpots Mon-Thurs that will draw anywhere from 40 to 170 runners.
Id run for more $$$$ and hold out a bit to cover expenses. |
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 Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | MS2011 - 2014-09-01 11:24 AM I've never been to a wknt jackpot that didn't drag every 5. Its not just big shows. Within an hour of me there are jackpots Mon-Thurs that will draw anywhere from 40 to 170 runners.
Id run for more $$$$ and hold out a bit to cover expenses.
Same here. I would think it strange to not drag every 5 no matter how many entries. I am in N.E. Texas and the shows whether big or small are run the same. I go to shows in Oklahoma and they are run the same. Now at ANHA(Waco), this weekend, they don't big drag every 50 which is a bit different but the ground was awesome.
One thing I have noticed in recent years is that the big shows are not taking 15-20 mins for big drags anymore. If they are longer than 8-9 mins it is rare. |
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