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Canchaser1420 Reg. Dec 2010	Posted 2014-09-16 8:52 AM Subject: free runner help
Veteran Posts: 162 Location: Texas...where dreams come true	I am riding this horse for some people and they let this horse get away with not turning the 1st barrel for 6 years... he has so much speed and has perfect 2nd and 3rd when rode right but his first is still lacking..... I'm use to the cowy horses where you have to push the whole way. So this has been a challenge... any suggestions on helping him with his turn? I've tried everything I now have him in a tiedown and that seems to help a little I'm just not a fan of tiedowns because he cant really stretch out... HELP! ha
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RodeoRider97 Reg. Oct 2011	Posted 2014-09-16 11:41 AM Subject: RE: free runner help
Veteran Posts: 193 Location: USA	What is he doing? Going past the barrel or just not wanting to turn?
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livexlovexrodeo Reg. Oct 2009	Posted 2014-09-16 9:58 PM Subject: RE: free runner help
I'm Cooler Offline Posts: 6387 Location: Pacific Northwest	How far past it is he going? What are you doing going into the first? My free-runner would brace against me and just go faster if I tried to "force" him to rate. I worked with him on rating a lot in slow work (not slamming him at the barrel, but I would start out trotting to the barrel and walking around it, then loping to the barrel and trotting and around it, and then high loping and slowing to a very collected lope around it) and then when I ran I just had to remember to sit really deep and take a hold of him very lightly just until I felt him start to get under himself and then give him back his head and just let him turn. If I bumped him several times or pulled on him he would brace and go by it.
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cow pie Reg. Nov 2009	Posted 2014-09-16 10:21 PM Subject: RE: free runner help
Sock eating dog owner Posts: 4553 Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah	Stay off the barrel pattern and take him out on the trails. Do circles around shrubs, trees boulders, mail box trash cans or what ever. Ask to rate and frame up. slow down speed up just break it up. with out the pattern he has no choice but to listen to you and he won't know when your going to ask him.
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lyeaman Reg. Sep 2011	Posted 2014-09-23 11:03 AM Subject: RE: free runner help
Member Posts: 22	This is very similar to what I was working on just last night with my boy! I got him about a month ago and he has already been trained on the barrels but without any kind of style, so my friend and I have been working with him and we both thought he was going to be a push style horse but when i really added the speed on him the other night he was running past the barrels, he knew he had to stop and turn but didnt quite get that he had to slow down to turn! So we did ALOT of rate work with him last night and he got the idea pretty quick. first we started out at a walk and walked to the frist barrel stopped right before the trun and asked him to back up a few steps then went on with the turn, we did this a few times at the walk at each barrel, then we did it at the trot. samething, trot to the barrel stop back up and WALK around the barrel, then just add more speed as you go on, when you start loping, lope up to the barrel and ask him to just trot around it, not stoping and backing up. your trying to get them to understand they have to go just a little bit slower around the barrel and then picking the speed back up again between them. I really tried to emphasize with my seat alot! really sitting when i was asking him to stop and back up and when we are slow loping around the barrel really sitting then too. the horse should get used to your seat and you sitting really deep in it meaning to slow down, i have only done this exersice with my horse once last night and he was a pro at it by the end of the night. I was having a really hard time of getting him to stop period and now if i just sit and really relax he stops in his tracks which i know most people like to see. I hope this helps and if you have any questions or are confused about anything just PM me and i will try to help! Good luck!
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