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| What is something that helped you shave those last few tenths off of you times? Did you use a suppliment, magnetic products, stricter workout routine, better saddle, nasal strips, whip ect? |
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| Going to a clinic is what has helped me in the past. It was always some little thing I had let slide or bad habit I had picked up without realizing it. |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | I started breezing a little more during my workouts. I normally just log miles on my finished horse so I'll throw a sprint or two in to get those fast twitch muscles working. |
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Location: Washington | Lost weight... |
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Location: NE Texas | Stop over riding my horse and just letting him work. |
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It's not my fault I'm perfect
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | Herbie - 2016-09-20 10:25 AM
Stop over riding my horse and just letting him work.
Oh yes this too ^^ for sure. I used to pick and overthink all the time. |
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| Getting a jam up farrier that can read xrays and apply the information, getting to a great set of vets that care about me personally and care about my horses more, getting a saddle that really fits me and the horse, going to really great clinic with a style that clicked, realizing that the horses need to be ridden everyday regardless of how I felt about it, and getting in good enough physical shape to run a 5k.
Stuff really came together about 6 years into making these changes. |
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| Riding aggressively. My paint horse made a wicked run with mistakes when I had a mindset of "We are no going to be in the 5D." I was so more focused which made him more focused. The next day I rode aggressive but not nearly as aggressive as the night before. I was an 18.906 Saturday and a 19.555 Sunday. Put your super game face on!  |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Study videos of your runs, so you can watch what your doing wrong or right.  |
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| Move the barrels closer together. |
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | Long trot boot camp and breezing for her and dropping 40+ pounds for me. Ten of them have crept back on and so have the tenths of a second. Dang it. |
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| Learning to ride correctly, feel my horse doing it right, and actually turning the barrel verse just running around it. Learn to notice cheating, blowing off, collection, when one is stiffing you, and if they are taking too many steps. Please know that wildly whipping like a monkey is not going to get you a faster time in most cases, nor are better saddles unless fit is making your horse sore or preventing you from riding correctly.
If you can notice and feel the above things, your riding and times will GREATLY improve.
Most of the things you mentioned to sped one up are gimmicks or what I call "extras" like the magnetic products. I'll get a horse a magnetic blanket only IF they win enough to buy it and pay the bills to go up and down the road. |
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Location: Texas | Stricter workout routine forsure. The better shape you/your horse is in the faster your runs will be. I don't think it's possible for a horse to be "too" in shape. |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | 3 things have made differences at different times for my horses.
25 plus years ago I dropped @60 lbs and my old 22 year old mare started clocking again.
After my then 12 year old mare fractured her hock I was trying to give her a lighter schedule, but that lighter schedule included lighter conditioning. I kept thinking she wasn't clocking because she just wasn't the horse she used to be before the injury. My farrier got after me about her top line and her extra belly, told me to get my butt busy and RIDE her. Took the advice and started long trotting a lot more miles in general on her and she started stopping the clock again.
Then a few years ago my little free runner needed a calendar to clock her times...we were on trail rides around the barrel half the time. She'd high lope the prettiest patterns but add more speed and the wheels fell off. We did every cotton picking rate drill that had ever been invented and a few we made up ourselves, LOL!!! Her turns were still a mess unless you did the hi lope thru. Any faster and you'd ask for the rate and her head would kind of come up and get bracey, her ribs would drop and her butt would fall out from under her. Read a post on here about the quick stop or fast stop, whatever its called made by Weaver. Changed our life!!! When I quit having to fight her to rate then she could rate in the proper physical position which made her turns efficient.
So mine have been weight, conditioning and rate. and everyone of them was affordable, LOL!!!
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| Whiteboy - 2016-09-20 12:27 PM
Move the barrels closer together.
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Location: North Dakota | SmokinGirlie - 2016-09-20 10:29 AM Herbie - 2016-09-20 10:25 AM Stop over riding my horse and just letting him work. Oh yes this too ^^ for sure. I used to pick and overthink all the time.
^^^Still working on this...
I haven't been to a run in over a month nor have I worked the pattern since then...Since those last runs I have uped my mare's conditioning schedule and started breezing more. We will see at the end of this month at our next run if it made a difference or if we have forgotten completly how to turn. I don't plan to touch the pattern before then... either this choice will turn out to be amazing or I'll regret it in the end... time will tell.  |
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Gettin Jiggy Wit It
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| a razor.... You can shave a lot off with it. :D |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Keeping an open mind and realizing that I am not perfect, that I still have room for improvement and regardless of how many years I've spent in the saddle, I still don't know everything.  |
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Owner of a ratting catting machine
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| IRunOnFaith - 2016-09-22 9:55 AM
Keeping an open mind and realizing that I am not perfect, that I still have room for improvement and regardless of how many years I've spent in the saddle, I still don't know everything.
The more time I spend riding and working to improve, the more I realize that I don't know ANYTHING!!
So...I completely agree with you! The more help you ask for from trusted professionals, the better off you'll be. |
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Location: Loco,Ok | Riding cutters..Started colts for Bill Freeman and Jim Lee both.That changed everything.Learned to use my feet more let the horse do their job.Eliminate unneccessary steps. Definition and clear signals.Dont make them guess. |
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