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Location: TEXAS | I'm so ready to be able to just go and not exhibition but my gelding still looks around a lot at new places. Do you just go knowing that for awhile it's going to be ugly before it gets better? |
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 Hummer's Hero
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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | I usually do it by arriving at a jackpot after exhibitions are sold out...no matter how hard I try, short of leaving work early--which you can only do so many times--I can barely get there in time to get entered. |
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| I usually go from multiple exhibitions to 1 only 1 and we cruise through it.
Do that for a few trips and see how it goes. When you're happy with your cruise through, don't buy an exhibition and go for it. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Southern Indiana | I quit exhibitions when I know they don't need them. Try getting in open arena more and just haul as much as possible. If they are looking around, they aren't focused on their job. When they start focusing they'll quit looking. I think your just shooting your self in the foot by quiting before he's ready. |
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| I usually have to stop because I can only afford to enter or time only! I am a chicken and have become a timid rider so I have to make myself go run. My husband just tells me to push them and they won't look around which is pretty true, if they are thinking about the work at hand they pay attention a little better. |
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 Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | My mare is a one run and done horse, so I stopped when I realized that our exhibtion/time only was great, and our competition run sucked. But the arenas around here typically allow you to warm up in the arena if you get there before time onlies/exhibitions, and that allows them to see all the "scary" stuff. |
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| Enter in a few rodeos  |
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| Go find a small race or play day and just enter and make a run. That way you still get the same feel but if your horse doesn't work your not out real expensive fees. |
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Elite Veteran
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| If you are currently slow loping one and then running, or just loping one time, just do that until you are comfortable with how hes doing. Most horse only look around because they aren't going fast enough to HAVE to pay attention. I just get them where Im comfortable high loping an exhibition and then I start entering. But don't expect to go faster than you would if you were exhibitioning. If you are still unsure, then keep exhibitioning. You will know when its time. |
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 Too Skinny
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | slacy09 - 2017-02-13 12:29 PM I'm so ready to be able to just go and not exhibition but my gelding still looks around a lot at new places. Do you just go knowing that for awhile it's going to be ugly before it gets better?
Are you cruising through slow? If so I think it is time to "hide the passie" a few runs and see if he is up to the task of being a big boy. If you run through an exhibition and he is looking around then traveling and seeing the sights is the only way to get him out of it. |
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 Half-Eaten Cookies
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Location: Fort Worth / Springtown | RockinGR - 2017-02-13 12:37 PM I usually do it by arriving at a jackpot after exhibitions are sold out...no matter how hard I try, short of leaving work early--which you can only do so many times--I can barely get there in time to get entered. lol......tell me about it! I find it hard to even make a race on a weeknight - some I've seen start at 7:30 p.m. - I loved the 9pm ones, but don't see those anymore.
And now exhibitions are $5 + an arena fee in some places.
I've been working my young one at home and a friend's place --- only exhbitioned a couple of times, but she's about solid enough to just enter the race.
Exhibitions after the race are nice....then you get on the stakes.
Edited by txbredbr 2017-02-14 11:29 AM
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 Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Easiest way...dont start....;)...m |
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Zeal Queen
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Location: TEXAS | I'm gonna just go for it LOL. He's older now and should start handling it better. I will just cruise through one and like ya'll said if he's pushed he wont have time to look around. |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | This was my first year seasoning a young barrel horse and I let him tell me when he was ready. We made sure we got there early on the weekends and warmed up in the arena during drags and he stopped looking around and eventually let me know that he knew his job. It was kinda like "okay mom, im not a little kid anymore, i know what im doing." lol he gets hyped up now and is excited and thats when i quit. At some of our new rodeos i did give him the forerunner paste and it helped him focus a TON. He wasnt looking around in a sence of spooking but just not paying attention to me and that paste helped out so much. I dont even use it anymore. Listen to your horse. |
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 Ms. Elvis
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Location: Running barrels or watching nascar | Get in a situation where I can't do them anymore (run late, they fill up) and go cold turkey. Also when it seems like I'm wasting my competition runs in exh, then it's time. Some horses hate that extra trip around especially if you throttle them down and they will tell you. One of my mares tries to buck if you exh her. Just go! |
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 The best bad guy on the internet
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Location: Arizona | I'm basically at the same stage you are. My mare knows that pattern and she's ready to start entering. I have cut out the exhibitions, however, I did arrive late to a jackpot the other night, I managed to get in the first draw, I was 4th out and only had about 10 minutes to warm up. I thought my mare could handle it, I was wrong....her mind wasn't ready and our run showed it. I know now that I need to take the time and do our warm up routine and get her mentally prepared for the race. I think as long as your horse is "prepared" for the run, you don't need to do an exhibition....it's different for every horse and rider....use your best judgement. :) |
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 Lone Wolf in my pack of One
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Location: North Texas | Start making your first exhibition a pretty good cruise through then your next exhibition slow. If he handles the first one well, it's a pretty good indication that he's ready to be entered without an exhibition.
What I've noticed with a horse that's been hauled a lot, usually they look when you're going slow but not when they're making a run. I feel like towards the end of training it is the rider that feels they need the exhibition rather than the horse actually needing it. |
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| When you realize you're doing them more for yourself than the horse  |
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| I am too late and too cheap to do exhibitions, and for a lot of people they are a crutch. Flame away! |
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Zeal Queen
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Location: TEXAS | gunner07 - 2017-02-22 8:33 PM I am too late and too cheap to do exhibitions, and for a lot of people they are a crutch. Flame away!
I have a 4 year old mare I'll be starting on the pattern soon. My plan is to never start exhibitions with her. |
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