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Location: MT | what size of pattern do you prefer to pattern a horse you are just starting on? Just curious!
Edited by ruggedchica 2016-07-29 5:58 PM
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| Absolutely HUGE like 150-200' apart, OUTSIDE the arena, NO FENCES. I don't ever want my horses bouncing off a fence, and I teach them to HUNT the next barrel. If your barrels are far apart they can't readily see the next one, but they know its coming so they stay focused and look for it. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | FLITASTIC - 2016-07-29 5:39 PM
Absolutely HUGE like 150-200' apart, OUTSIDE the arena, NO FENCES. I don't ever want my horses bouncing off a fence, and I teach them to HUNT the next barrel. If your barrels are far apart they can't readily see the next one, but they know its coming so they stay focused and look for it.
^^ This
Our arena isn't fenced in and is a nice size, so I can set them as far out as I want to, but I live that my horses don't need the fence to help them with the pattern and in my mind the bigger the pattern, the easier it is for the horse to get the hang of it. |
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Location: Texas | I am actually patterning my 3 yr old now & I have varied the size of the pattern quite a bit. Sometimes small & sometime very large. Some times wide & sometimes narrow. I'm keeping him guessing a little. |
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Location: Texas | I vary the size up quite a bit. |
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| Depends, when just starting I use a small pattern so they don't get bored between them. As they come along I go bigger with the pattern. |
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Location: North Dakota | Kind of depends what I am doing.
If, for example, I am doing a drill of all-rights or all-lefts, I'll space them anywhere from close to far.
But if I want to work on the actual pattern and want to have time to do a simple lead change betweeen barrel 1 and 2 (when the horse is at that stage) then I want a large pattern so I have plenty of time to cue them in-between.
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| Depends on the speed we're at. Just walking/slow trotting I will set it smaller at first just so it doesn't take as long to get to the next one.
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Location: Montana | I like a standard at least and if at all possible, no fences to start mine. After they have a pretty good foundation I don't mind fences or moving the pattern smaller but I like them loping a very solid pattern first. |
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