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| I was looking around on the forums and couldn't seem to find a post like this. (correct me if i'm wrong!) But I wanted to make a post where everyone could share drills that they have! Feel free to share any drills that you have and what they help with! :) | |
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| I'm not a " Drill-er" lol If you think about it, its extremely repetitive to a horse or anyone for that matter. I am a huge proponent of teaching the pattern OUTSIDE the arena. I have an almond orchard behind my house. 1000's of acres of trees. I have permission to ride there so I teach my colts all they need to know while navigating the trees. They don't get locked into a " Pattern" they have to listen to me. lol Mine know that when they finally do get to the arena, its business, and they crave it. They don't walk into the arena thinking " Great, I get to turn the same barrel I did 1000 times already" lol | |
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| FLITASTIC - 2018-04-24 9:13 AM
I'm not a " Drill-er" lol If you think about it, its extremely repetitive to a horse or anyone for that matter. I am a huge proponent of teaching the pattern OUTSIDE the arena. I have an almond orchard behind my house. 1000's of acres of trees. I have permission to ride there so I teach my colts all they need to know while navigating the trees. They don't get locked into a " Pattern" they have to listen to me. lol Mine know that when they finally do get to the arena, its business, and they crave it. They don't walk into the arena thinking " Great, I get to turn the same barrel I did 1000 times already" lol
This!^^ Only, I live in South Texas so I use the Mesquite brush and catclaw. Also just tracking cattle out in the pasture helps. However, it really peeves the ex-show hiefers!  | |
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| GLP - 2018-04-24 7:26 AM
FLITASTIC - 2018-04-24 9:13 AM
I'm not a " Drill-er" lol If you think about it, its extremely repetitive to a horse or anyone for that matter. I am a huge proponent of teaching the pattern OUTSIDE the arena. I have an almond orchard behind my house. 1000's of acres of trees. I have permission to ride there so I teach my colts all they need to know while navigating the trees. They don't get locked into a " Pattern" they have to listen to me. lol Mine know that when they finally do get to the arena, its business, and they crave it. They don't walk into the arena thinking " Great, I get to turn the same barrel I did 1000 times already" lol
This!^^ Only, I live in South Texas so I use the Mesquite brush and catclaw. Also just tracking cattle out in the pasture helps. However, it really peeves the ex-show hiefers!
YUP..... and once mine are finished horses I pick and choose where I run and only run 1-2x a month " Normally" so mine all know that when I do ask them for a run, they lay it down. | |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | FLITASTIC - 2018-04-24 10:13 AM I'm not a " Drill-er" lol If you think about it, its extremely repetitive to a horse or anyone for that matter. I am a huge proponent of teaching the pattern OUTSIDE the arena. I have an almond orchard behind my house. 1000's of acres of trees. I have permission to ride there so I teach my colts all they need to know while navigating the trees. They don't get locked into a " Pattern" they have to listen to me. lol Mine know that when they finally do get to the arena, its business, and they crave it. They don't walk into the arena thinking " Great, I get to turn the same barrel I did 1000 times already" lol
I do the same thing. We have 3,000 acres of pecan trees here on the farm. The smaller ones make great "poles". I can do circles around the trees, etc.
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| i think teaching correct body position and softness threw ribs and face. making sure the horse is broke before patterning them. last one i trained i did a lot more of the softness and body position before patterning and my tractor was broke and my ground was hard. i worked on hard ground and patterned her and in 30 days she was exhibitioning not fast but loping a nice set and second week looked like a barrel horse. everyone one was saying how nice my mare was. and the good thing is that is if we have a problem i have somewhere to go back to. i learned teaching the pattern is easy but loping a correct pattern is the hard part. | |
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Location: Dubach, LA | Y’all stop being pretentious. Every dang last one of you has a favorite barrel drill. Mine is squares. Google squares and Connie Combs. | |
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Location: Tex. Panhandle | Jean winters showed me one that I use on all my horses. Pick a barrel, a bush a cone, it doesn matter. They need to go around the object with their head slightly tipped in, ribcage shapped and their inside hip up under them driving off the inside foot. I will give my 15 ish ft space around the object, needs to be an even cirle. Once they get it, they can finish out with a tighter turn to reinforce driving around the barrel.
Go at every speed. Once they have a walk (usually easy) I move to a trot then a lope. There have been days on horses that want to be stiff that this is ALL I will work on. It helps keep them soft or teaches them to be soft if they are stiffer as well as working on correct body position and dirving off that inside back leg.
My baby 3 yr old took to this in no time the other night but she has a very good foundation. This will not make a horse hot. I usualy pick and object or barrel and get to work. I do not work the pattern like this however | |
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| CanCan - 2018-04-25 7:19 PM
Y’all stop being pretentious. Every dang last one of you has a favorite barrel drill. Mine is squares. Google squares and Connie Combs.
nope, not being pretentious at all. I don't have much space for a good barrel pattern, don't have an arena and absolutely hate riding in circles. Circling a mesquite bush or catclaw really helps not having to fight the shoulder falling in and when you have 2 mesquites close together, that helps with the rear drifting out if they don't want to listen to your leg. Following a ****ed off cow trying to get to her friends teaches them to use their body even at the slow pace of a fat ex show heifer who is seriously offended you are treating her like a regular cow. Picking a fence post off in the distance to ride to really does help with straightness and riding directly at a fence/tree and asking them to move laterally to avoid running into it works wonders too. I find all these help with MY focus which can be very suspect if I am just doing a drill.
NOTE I am not a professional, either and never was or will be.
This is just what has worked for me competing in Texas ammy rodeos and jackpots, but a lady who was a multiple times champion in many rodeo events taught me this. | |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | CanCan - 2018-04-25 7:19 PM Y’all stop being pretentious. Every dang last one of you has a favorite barrel drill. Mine is squares. Google squares and Connie Combs.
I was not trying to do any impressing I was asking what type of drills was she looking to do, what was her problem areas if any.. Not pretentious asking a question is it? | |
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| GLP - 2018-04-26 7:46 AM
CanCan - 2018-04-25 7:19 PM
Y’all stop being pretentious. Every dang last one of you has a favorite barrel drill. Mine is squares. Google squares and Connie Combs.
nope, not being pretentious at all. I don't have much space for a good barrel pattern, don't have an arena and absolutely hate riding in circles. Circling a mesquite bush or catclaw really helps not having to fight the shoulder falling in and when you have 2 mesquites close together, that helps with the rear drifting out if they don't want to listen to your leg. Following a ****ed off cow trying to get to her friends teaches them to use their body even at the slow pace of a fat ex show heifer who is seriously offended you are treating her like a regular cow. Picking a fence post off in the distance to ride to really does help with straightness and riding directly at a fence/tree and asking them to move laterally to avoid running into it works wonders too. I find all these help with MY focus which can be very suspect if I am just doing a drill.
NOTE I am not a professional, either and never was or will be.
This is just what has worked for me competing in Texas ammy rodeos and jackpots, but a lady who was a multiple times champion in many rodeo events taught me this.
I'm 100% with you GLP and my mom went to the NFR 6x doing much of what you describe, just different scenery! LOL Other thing we reinforce is get the heck out of an arena. The barrel pattern we do have is set up in a HUGE outside field with ZERO FENCES and the barrels are about 200' apart on uneven ground, some squirrel holes etc. lol Teaches a horse to look for a barrel not a fence. It was mentioned no tractor.... We rarely work our ground, like I said, some squirrel holes even.. Reason being is so many horses these days live on MANICURED , fluffy ground and if they ever have to run at a rodeo after a rain storm or hard nasty ground, they don't panic, they know what to do and get a check where some horses freak out. Chasing an onry cow off the side of a mountain having to navigate rocks, fences, and trees will teach one how to use their body way faster than loping circles for three hours. If your chasing a cow and have to head her off before she sells out on you and get in front of her, the horse will learn to break at the poll and rib cage, and use their hind end. If not, they crash and learn how not to crash next time. When you ask them to run a barrel pattern it is so easy for them, cake walk compared to what they are used to. And you absolutely do NOT need a perfect pattern to outrun someone and take their money. I love watching time onlys where someone spends 5 minutes loping circles and during the jackpot they make a BEAUTIFUL perfect run, about 4 seconds slower than everyone else... but it was " Pretty" .
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | FLITASTIC - 2018-04-26 10:17 AM GLP - 2018-04-26 7:46 AM CanCan - 2018-04-25 7:19 PM Y’all stop being pretentious. Every dang last one of you has a favorite barrel drill. Mine is squares. Google squares and Connie Combs. nope, not being pretentious at all. I don't have much space for a good barrel pattern, don't have an arena and absolutely hate riding in circles. Circling a mesquite bush or catclaw really helps not having to fight the shoulder falling in and when you have 2 mesquites close together, that helps with the rear drifting out if they don't want to listen to your leg. Following a ****ed off cow trying to get to her friends teaches them to use their body even at the slow pace of a fat ex show heifer who is seriously offended you are treating her like a regular cow. Picking a fence post off in the distance to ride to really does help with straightness and riding directly at a fence/tree and asking them to move laterally to avoid running into it works wonders too. I find all these help with MY focus which can be very suspect if I am just doing a drill. NOTE I am not a professional, either and never was or will be. This is just what has worked for me competing in Texas ammy rodeos and jackpots, but a lady who was a multiple times champion in many rodeo events taught me this. I'm 100% with you GLP and my mom went to the NFR 6x doing much of what you describe, just different scenery! LOL Other thing we reinforce is get the heck out of an arena. The barrel pattern we do have is set up in a HUGE outside field with ZERO FENCES and the barrels are about 200' apart on uneven ground, some squirrel holes etc. lol Teaches a horse to look for a barrel not a fence.
And not to step in a squirrel hole while running barrels, lol..
I used Orange trees in our Orchards when I lived in the Valley.. | |
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| Southtxponygirl - 2018-04-26 8:23 AM
FLITASTIC - 2018-04-26 10:17 AM GLP - 2018-04-26 7:46 AM CanCan - 2018-04-25 7:19 PM Y’all stop being pretentious. Every dang last one of you has a favorite barrel drill. Mine is squares. Google squares and Connie Combs. nope, not being pretentious at all. I don't have much space for a good barrel pattern, don't have an arena and absolutely hate riding in circles. Circling a mesquite bush or catclaw really helps not having to fight the shoulder falling in and when you have 2 mesquites close together, that helps with the rear drifting out if they don't want to listen to your leg. Following a ****ed off cow trying to get to her friends teaches them to use their body even at the slow pace of a fat ex show heifer who is seriously offended you are treating her like a regular cow. Picking a fence post off in the distance to ride to really does help with straightness and riding directly at a fence/tree and asking them to move laterally to avoid running into it works wonders too. I find all these help with MY focus which can be very suspect if I am just doing a drill. NOTE I am not a professional, either and never was or will be. This is just what has worked for me competing in Texas ammy rodeos and jackpots, but a lady who was a multiple times champion in many rodeo events taught me this. I'm 100% with you GLP and my mom went to the NFR 6x doing much of what you describe, just different scenery! LOL Other thing we reinforce is get the heck out of an arena. The barrel pattern we do have is set up in a HUGE outside field with ZERO FENCES and the barrels are about 200' apart on uneven ground, some squirrel holes etc. lol Teaches a horse to look for a barrel not a fence.
I used Orange trees in our Orchards when I lived in the Valley..
We obviously won't intentionally cripple one in a squirrel hole but you would be amazed how light on their feet a horse can be chasing a mad heifer through a field of squirrel holes. lol They learn where to put their feet to get the job done. | |
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| FLITASTIC - 2018-04-26 10:17 AM
GLP - 2018-04-26 7:46 AM
CanCan - 2018-04-25 7:19 PM
Y’all stop being pretentious. Every dang last one of you has a favorite barrel drill. Mine is squares. Google squares and Connie Combs.
nope, not being pretentious at all. I don't have much space for a good barrel pattern, don't have an arena and absolutely hate riding in circles. Circling a mesquite bush or catclaw really helps not having to fight the shoulder falling in and when you have 2 mesquites close together, that helps with the rear drifting out if they don't want to listen to your leg. Following a ****ed off cow trying to get to her friends teaches them to use their body even at the slow pace of a fat ex show heifer who is seriously offended you are treating her like a regular cow. Picking a fence post off in the distance to ride to really does help with straightness and riding directly at a fence/tree and asking them to move laterally to avoid running into it works wonders too. I find all these help with MY focus which can be very suspect if I am just doing a drill.
NOTE I am not a professional, either and never was or will be.
This is just what has worked for me competing in Texas ammy rodeos and jackpots, but a lady who was a multiple times champion in many rodeo events taught me this.
I'm 100% with you GLP and my mom went to the NFR 6x doing much of what you describe, just different scenery! LOL Other thing we reinforce is get the heck out of an arena. The barrel pattern we do have is set up in a HUGE outside field with ZERO FENCES and the barrels are about 200' apart on uneven ground, some squirrel holes etc. lol Teaches a horse to look for a barrel not a fence. It was mentioned no tractor.... We rarely work our ground, like I said, some squirrel holes even.. Reason being is so many horses these days live on MANICURED , fluffy ground and if they ever have to run at a rodeo after a rain storm or hard nasty ground, they don't panic, they know what to do and get a check where some horses freak out. Chasing an onry cow off the side of a mountain having to navigate rocks, fences, and trees will teach one how to use their body way faster than loping circles for three hours. If your chasing a cow and have to head her off before she sells out on you and get in front of her, the horse will learn to break at the poll and rib cage, and use their hind end. If not, they crash and learn how not to crash next time. When you ask them to run a barrel pattern it is so easy for them, cake walk compared to what they are used to. And you absolutely do NOT need a perfect pattern to outrun someone and take their money. I love watching time onlys where someone spends 5 minutes loping circles and during the jackpot they make a BEAUTIFUL perfect run, about 4 seconds slower than everyone else... but it was " Pretty" .
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | FLITASTIC - 2018-04-26 10:25 AM Southtxponygirl - 2018-04-26 8:23 AM FLITASTIC - 2018-04-26 10:17 AM GLP - 2018-04-26 7:46 AM CanCan - 2018-04-25 7:19 PM Y’all stop being pretentious. Every dang last one of you has a favorite barrel drill. Mine is squares. Google squares and Connie Combs. nope, not being pretentious at all. I don't have much space for a good barrel pattern, don't have an arena and absolutely hate riding in circles. Circling a mesquite bush or catclaw really helps not having to fight the shoulder falling in and when you have 2 mesquites close together, that helps with the rear drifting out if they don't want to listen to your leg. Following a ****ed off cow trying to get to her friends teaches them to use their body even at the slow pace of a fat ex show heifer who is seriously offended you are treating her like a regular cow. Picking a fence post off in the distance to ride to really does help with straightness and riding directly at a fence/tree and asking them to move laterally to avoid running into it works wonders too. I find all these help with MY focus which can be very suspect if I am just doing a drill. NOTE I am not a professional, either and never was or will be. This is just what has worked for me competing in Texas ammy rodeos and jackpots, but a lady who was a multiple times champion in many rodeo events taught me this. I'm 100% with you GLP and my mom went to the NFR 6x doing much of what you describe, just different scenery! LOL Other thing we reinforce is get the heck out of an arena. The barrel pattern we do have is set up in a HUGE outside field with ZERO FENCES and the barrels are about 200' apart on uneven ground, some squirrel holes etc. lol Teaches a horse to look for a barrel not a fence.
I used Orange trees in our Orchards when I lived in the Valley.. We obviously won't intentionally cripple one in a squirrel hole but you would be amazed how light on their feet a horse can be chasing a mad heifer through a field of squirrel holes. lol They learn where to put their feet to get the job done.
We got Gophers we have to watch out for and lots of them.. 
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| FLITASTIC - 2018-04-26 10:25 AM
Southtxponygirl - 2018-04-26 8:23 AM
FLITASTIC - 2018-04-26 10:17 AM GLP - 2018-04-26 7:46 AM CanCan - 2018-04-25 7:19 PM Y’all stop being pretentious. Every dang last one of you has a favorite barrel drill. Mine is squares. Google squares and Connie Combs. nope, not being pretentious at all. I don't have much space for a good barrel pattern, don't have an arena and absolutely hate riding in circles. Circling a mesquite bush or catclaw really helps not having to fight the shoulder falling in and when you have 2 mesquites close together, that helps with the rear drifting out if they don't want to listen to your leg. Following a ****ed off cow trying to get to her friends teaches them to use their body even at the slow pace of a fat ex show heifer who is seriously offended you are treating her like a regular cow. Picking a fence post off in the distance to ride to really does help with straightness and riding directly at a fence/tree and asking them to move laterally to avoid running into it works wonders too. I find all these help with MY focus which can be very suspect if I am just doing a drill. NOTE I am not a professional, either and never was or will be. This is just what has worked for me competing in Texas ammy rodeos and jackpots, but a lady who was a multiple times champion in many rodeo events taught me this. I'm 100% with you GLP and my mom went to the NFR 6x doing much of what you describe, just different scenery! LOL Other thing we reinforce is get the heck out of an arena. The barrel pattern we do have is set up in a HUGE outside field with ZERO FENCES and the barrels are about 200' apart on uneven ground, some squirrel holes etc. lol Teaches a horse to look for a barrel not a fence.
I used Orange trees in our Orchards when I lived in the Valley..
We obviously won't intentionally cripple one in a squirrel hole but you would be amazed how light on their feet a horse can be chasing a mad heifer through a field of squirrel holes. lol They learn where to put their feet to get the job done.
Yep, good ole proprioception, which is lost on horses who are worked only on carefully chosen good ground. My last horse I bought had very little proprioception because of this. I finally just turned him out in the brush full time to learn how to travel in nature. He is such a careful horse that it took awhile for him to get comfortable. | |
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| GLP - 2018-04-26 9:19 AM
FLITASTIC - 2018-04-26 10:25 AM
Southtxponygirl - 2018-04-26 8:23 AM
FLITASTIC - 2018-04-26 10:17 AM GLP - 2018-04-26 7:46 AM CanCan - 2018-04-25 7:19 PM Y’all stop being pretentious. Every dang last one of you has a favorite barrel drill. Mine is squares. Google squares and Connie Combs. nope, not being pretentious at all. I don't have much space for a good barrel pattern, don't have an arena and absolutely hate riding in circles. Circling a mesquite bush or catclaw really helps not having to fight the shoulder falling in and when you have 2 mesquites close together, that helps with the rear drifting out if they don't want to listen to your leg. Following a ****ed off cow trying to get to her friends teaches them to use their body even at the slow pace of a fat ex show heifer who is seriously offended you are treating her like a regular cow. Picking a fence post off in the distance to ride to really does help with straightness and riding directly at a fence/tree and asking them to move laterally to avoid running into it works wonders too. I find all these help with MY focus which can be very suspect if I am just doing a drill. NOTE I am not a professional, either and never was or will be. This is just what has worked for me competing in Texas ammy rodeos and jackpots, but a lady who was a multiple times champion in many rodeo events taught me this. I'm 100% with you GLP and my mom went to the NFR 6x doing much of what you describe, just different scenery! LOL Other thing we reinforce is get the heck out of an arena. The barrel pattern we do have is set up in a HUGE outside field with ZERO FENCES and the barrels are about 200' apart on uneven ground, some squirrel holes etc. lol Teaches a horse to look for a barrel not a fence.
I used Orange trees in our Orchards when I lived in the Valley..
We obviously won't intentionally cripple one in a squirrel hole but you would be amazed how light on their feet a horse can be chasing a mad heifer through a field of squirrel holes. lol They learn where to put their feet to get the job done.
Yep, good ole proprioception, which is lost on horses who are worked only on carefully chosen good ground. My last horse I bought had very little proprioception because of this. I finally just turned him out in the brush full time to learn how to travel in nature. He is such a careful horse that it took awhile for him to get comfortable.
True, and this is why I think we have " Jackpot" horses and " Rodeo" horses. Good NFR rodeo horses do not always win the 1D or even place in the 1D sometimes at jackpots where the ground is perfectly manicured and raked every 5. Rodeo horses are the ones that can still run at Calgary under 3 foot of water at the first barrel and get er done! I have seen some " Pretty" manicured horses with beautiful manes and tails try and navigate a rodeo pen. its kind of funny. | |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | FLITASTIC - 2018-04-26 11:35 AM GLP - 2018-04-26 9:19 AM FLITASTIC - 2018-04-26 10:25 AM Southtxponygirl - 2018-04-26 8:23 AM FLITASTIC - 2018-04-26 10:17 AM GLP - 2018-04-26 7:46 AM CanCan - 2018-04-25 7:19 PM Y’all stop being pretentious. Every dang last one of you has a favorite barrel drill. Mine is squares. Google squares and Connie Combs. nope, not being pretentious at all. I don't have much space for a good barrel pattern, don't have an arena and absolutely hate riding in circles. Circling a mesquite bush or catclaw really helps not having to fight the shoulder falling in and when you have 2 mesquites close together, that helps with the rear drifting out if they don't want to listen to your leg. Following a ****ed off cow trying to get to her friends teaches them to use their body even at the slow pace of a fat ex show heifer who is seriously offended you are treating her like a regular cow. Picking a fence post off in the distance to ride to really does help with straightness and riding directly at a fence/tree and asking them to move laterally to avoid running into it works wonders too. I find all these help with MY focus which can be very suspect if I am just doing a drill. NOTE I am not a professional, either and never was or will be. This is just what has worked for me competing in Texas ammy rodeos and jackpots, but a lady who was a multiple times champion in many rodeo events taught me this. I'm 100% with you GLP and my mom went to the NFR 6x doing much of what you describe, just different scenery! LOL Other thing we reinforce is get the heck out of an arena. The barrel pattern we do have is set up in a HUGE outside field with ZERO FENCES and the barrels are about 200' apart on uneven ground, some squirrel holes etc. lol Teaches a horse to look for a barrel not a fence.
I used Orange trees in our Orchards when I lived in the Valley.. We obviously won't intentionally cripple one in a squirrel hole but you would be amazed how light on their feet a horse can be chasing a mad heifer through a field of squirrel holes. lol They learn where to put their feet to get the job done. Yep, good ole proprioception, which is lost on horses who are worked only on carefully chosen good ground. My last horse I bought had very little proprioception because of this. I finally just turned him out in the brush full time to learn how to travel in nature. He is such a careful horse that it took awhile for him to get comfortable. True, and this is why I think we have " Jackpot" horses and " Rodeo" horses. Good NFR rodeo horses do not always win the 1D or even place in the 1D sometimes at jackpots where the ground is perfectly manicured and raked every 5. Rodeo horses are the ones that can still run at Calgary under 3 foot of water at the first barrel and get er done! I have seen some " Pretty" manicured horses with beautiful manes and tails try and navigate a rodeo pen. its kind of funny.
Most of the really true Rodeo horses that I have ever been around are ranch horses too, they have a job outside of the arena..And its not to look pretty, lol.. | |
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