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| How are your 3 yo coming along that aren't going to be entered in a futurity? I'm just loping circles right now. Haven't even seen a barrel yet. |
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Location: LaBelle, Florida | My 3 year old is broke but has been sitting all summer due to heat and humidity and now my pasture is under water. I'm in SW Fl so waiting for the rain to start slacking up before I start riding again.
Mine hasn't seen a barrel either, however she has been ridden enough that she has the basics down pretty well. |
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| I'm also having trouble getting him to bend. Any suggestions? |
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| Ours had a week of light gymkhana practice this past summer just so when we took him to one small playday the following weeked to let him see the sights, he wasn't ultimately confused. He took up speed and action like a pig to mud. He ended up 3rd in the class behind two horses who had been doing it for years. He was so proud of himself (did a little sliding stop and everything).
Now he is just getting a more solid arena foundation put on him (more yielding/flexing, rollbacks, etc.) He won't be put on the barrel pattern for real until next summer, although he really didn't do bad at all for the amount we worked him on it. haha he's very naturally athletic, so it came easy to him. |
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Location: Texas | Mine was with the trainer 3 months, came home in December 100 pounds underweight from getting sick there, and probably full of ulcers.
After a month of treatment for the ulcers and trying to get her weight up, she got cut up in the fence. She is now ready to go, but after so many months off, I'm going to send her out again for 30 days and go from there.
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Location: London Ontario | I just picked mine up from the track. She is a little lean for my liking, I am still waiting for her to settle in, I have had a hand full of ride on her in a stock saddle. I am giving her time off till beg of October them I will start her again. I hope to have her hauling to the winter jackpots for some exposure. She is my first futurity horse, I may end up running her this year depending on how she is doing, if not I am okay with holding off. We don't have the big futurities like down south does so I am in no rush! |
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Location: Deep South | Mine is soft and collected in the bridle loping circles, sliding stop on the word whoa, bends and counter bends, sidepasses, is riding very quiet in and out of the arena. I have just spent the summer putting a solid handle on her. She has not seen a barrel yet. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | http://youtu.be/cnE9hJe35v8 |
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| HA! I just bought a youngin (3yo) a few weeks ago. She is....halter broke and picking up her feet XD hurray project horse! She was hardly halter broke when I brought her home. Big sucker too, like 15.2 and thick. Fuel Charger X FWF bred. Momma, daughter of FWF is 16.2 and daddy, son of Fuel Charger is 15.2 so we shall see where she ends up. Youngest horse I've seen in a while with the Ole Man on her papers. Very excited about her. |
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| Sent mine to the colt starter 2 weeks ago.
Sent in the BFA juvi entries this week. They should all be ready in 90 days
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| I haven't bought mine yet! But hope to have one in the next month or so! The two I tried really impressed me with how far along they were! One was spinning/ side passing bridle-less! |
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Location: Wyoming | I just picked mine up from the trainer a few weeks ago, he put 45 days on her and she is coming along nicely. She has a good stop, picks up her leads, soft in her face and has a great mind. I'm going to start her on the barrels in January but I'm going to take my time with her, she's 16 hands and very gangly... She needs time to mature physically |
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| arion - 2015-09-16 1:10 PM
Sent mine to the colt starter 2 weeks ago.
Sent in the BFA juvi entries this week. They should all be ready in 90 days
I have a dumb question, I know VERY little about futurities. Do you mean you are going to the BFA in December and your horses are just now getting broke? I don't mean that in a bad way at all. I think it would be cool to find a happy medium between starting to early to get them where they need to be but early enough to be competitive. I would like to one day be able to go to one. I think I'll come watch this year :) |
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Looks like the horse is getting a good foundation
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| arion - 2015-09-16 1:10 PM
Sent mine to the colt starter 2 weeks ago.
Sent in the BFA juvi entries this week. They should all be ready in 90 days
Mine is in the video above. My trainer said that we were probably messing up by not entering the juvenile. I did check on BFA JUVENILE entries and there is a $50 late fee for each entry if the first payment is not mailed by Sept 1. Mine was broke a year and half ago. I might add that i expect a lot out of my horses, but to be ready for a futurity in 90 days is a little unrealistic for my horses.
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| MC1993 - 2015-09-16 7:17 AM
I just picked mine up from the track. She is a little lean for my liking, I am still waiting for her to settle in, I have had a hand full of ride on her in a stock saddle. I am giving her time off till beg of October them I will start her again. I hope to have her hauling to the winter jackpots for some exposure. She is my first futurity horse, I may end up running her this year depending on how she is doing, if not I am okay with holding off. We don't have the big futurities like down south does so I am in no rush!
I have friends that seem to find a lot of futurities in Canada or at least they keep posting on facebook how well they are doing. I wish them well but I hope they stay up there because I don't want to have to compete against them. Laughing |
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Location: Deep South | streakysox - 2015-09-16 4:02 PM arion - 2015-09-16 1:10 PM Sent mine to the colt starter 2 weeks ago. Sent in the BFA juvi entries this week. They should all be ready in 90 days Mine is in the video above. My trainer said that we were probably messing up by not entering the juvenile. I did check on BFA JUVENILE entries and there is a $50 late fee for each entry if the first payment is not mailed by Sept 1. Mine was broke a year and half ago. I might add that i expect a lot out of my horses, but to be ready for a futurity in 90 days is a little unrealistic for my horses.
This is a trap. It's how he rolls. I wouldn't waste my breath. |
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| BamaCanChaser - 2015-09-16 4:28 PM
streakysox - 2015-09-16 4:02 PM arion - 2015-09-16 1:10 PM Sent mine to the colt starter 2 weeks ago. Sent in the BFA juvi entries this week. They should all be ready in 90 days Mine is in the video above. My trainer said that we were probably messing up by not entering the juvenile. I did check on BFA JUVENILE entries and there is a $50 late fee for each entry if the first payment is not mailed by Sept 1. Mine was broke a year and half ago. I might add that i expect a lot out of my horses, but to be ready for a futurity in 90 days is a little unrealistic for my horses.
This is a trap. It's how he rolls. I wouldn't waste my breath.
you seem to have an advantage on the rest of us.
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Location: Gainesville, TX | streakysox - 2015-09-16 3:55 PM
Looks like the horse is getting a good foundation
She can do quite a bit bridleless too. Of course Liana has trained her. Had her 90 days as a 2 year old and 90 days this year. If they spend any time at all at Liana's you can pretty much take the good foundation as a given. She'll go back this next year for more speed training with Liana. Slated for 5 year old futurities. |
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