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| Has anyone been to a jackpot with no fences? Like out on a quarter section of farm land? Was it a success/ would you do it again? I'm brainstorming and think it sounds fun, but I'm also a bit crazy so interested to hear what others think! |
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The Advice Guru
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| I would love to, but wondering what insurance would say |
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Location: North Carolina | I would totally do it! I think you need to go back to the basics with your horse if you NEED a fence to run em. |
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 Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | I'd do it!  |
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| Way back in 1979 when I sold my app -- the gal called me a couple weeks later accusing me of selling a horse that wouldn't run barrels. He was trained and run in big pens, no barrel was close to a fence, but she was running in a field and a field to him meant RUN, not turn, so she couldn't get him to run a pattern at all.
I would imagine that some other horses would be the same. No containment might be a bit much for many. JMO. |
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| There is a trainer in my state that hosts impromptu jackpots from time to time at her place, and she doesn't have fence. This isn't any pointed, sanctioned show, just a little way to get out and haul somewhere new, and get out and race after a bunch of rain outs or whatever. People seem to love it. |
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| Will there be in a cornfield? If you build it, they will come. |
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| Definitely not for me. I would worry about where my horse would run off to if she fell and I didn't stay on. |
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 Chasin my Dream
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Location: Alberta | Oh I'd be there!!! Honestly not sure how some would fair, but I know only time my horses see a barrel with a fence around it is when I haul lol you mean open field barrel training isn't normal 
Edited by dream_chaser 2015-09-06 9:59 PM
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| WrapN3MN - 2015-09-05 9:25 PM Definitely not for me. I would worry about where my horse would run off to if she fell and I didn't stay on.
That is something I wasn't even considering. Good point. |
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 Mature beyond Years
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Location: North of the 49th Parallel | I would so come. Well, because we all know my horse wouldn't run past a barrel for anything. |
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Location: Kansas | WrapN3MN - 2015-09-05 9:25 PM Definitely not for me. I would worry about where my horse would run off to if she fell and I didn't stay on.
LOL
My horses would apply their brakes at the 1st green patch and start pigging out
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Location: on my horse | sodapop - 2015-09-05 8:22 PM
Will there be in a cornfield? If you build it, they will come.
I would so be on it! Like you said if you build it we will come lol |
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 Namesless in BHW
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | They have something on these lines every labor day here in Oklahoma. I've never been, but from what I hear it's in a pasture and the pattern is huge. Maybe some from here will come on that's been and give a clue. |
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| Ive been to 2 here. A friend has a big arena in her pasture with no fences. Its a blast! You definitely see who has a horse that will listen and those that don't....
I love a challenge. And running in a big open area is one. There is one in the area next weekend. Ill probably be forced to work so I doubt I'll make it.
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Location: MI | I would love to attend one! I think it would be a hoot :) |
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  More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Once soybeans are harvested around here there are getting to be more and more "beanfield runs" where they set up a Pendleton size pattern and have jackpots. |
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 Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | I guess my only question would be how to water the dirt? |
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Location: Pa | dream_chaser - 2015-09-05 9:46 PM
Oh I'd be there!!! Honestly not sure how some would fair, but I know only time my horses see a barrel with a fence around it is when I haul lol you mean open field barrel training isn't normal 
Ditto! My barrels are set up with no fence in sight! |
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 Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | I love the idea. I have not had many arenas to train mine in...I'm older than dirt. So most of the horses I have had were trained in a pasture without a fence. |
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