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Location: Florida | love2ridepre - 2016-05-26 5:51 PM Improper wear of helmets!!! if you choose (wisely I may add ) to ride with a helmet, please make sure it is PROPERLY FITTED AND FASTENED !!!! I see so many riders wearing helmets that are too big for them (mostly children ) or straps too loose around the rider's chins ( in adults and children ). This is as dangerous or more as not wearing one!!! Wearing a loose helmet can do more harm than good in case of a wreck!   
Seriously? We have gone from should I wear a helmet to the helmet fit police in a few months? Mind your own business and take care of your own. The rest is not your problem. |
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| When gals let their little kids run loose and wild around the horses and in the vicinity of all the action....drives me nuts!!!   |
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| Vickie - 2016-05-26 7:04 PM
love2ridepre - 2016-05-26 5:51 PM Improper wear of helmets!!! if you choose (wisely I may add ) to ride with a helmet, please make sure it is PROPERLY FITTED AND FASTENED !!!! I see so many riders wearing helmets that are too big for them (mostly children ) or straps too loose around the rider's chins ( in adults and children ). This is as dangerous or more as not wearing one!!! Wearing a loose helmet can do more harm than good in case of a wreck!
Uhm... Did you miss the theme of this post? That is my pet peeve, so please don't be the post police and mind your own business???????? |
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Location: Somewhere around here | love2ridepre - 2016-05-26 7:25 PM Vickie - 2016-05-26 7:04 PM love2ridepre - 2016-05-26 5:51 PM Improper wear of helmets!!! if you choose (wisely I may add ) to ride with a helmet, please make sure it is PROPERLY FITTED AND FASTENED !!!! I see so many riders wearing helmets that are too big for them (mostly children ) or straps too loose around the rider's chins ( in adults and children ). This is as dangerous or more as not wearing one!!! Wearing a loose helmet can do more harm than good in case of a wreck! Uhm... Did you miss the theme of this post? That is my pet peeve, so please don't be the post police and mind your own business????????
I have to agree. I don't know the statistics but I kinda see it as wearing your seat belt without having the chest stocking stuffer. Sure, it will protect you some but it might do more harm than good if something bad were to happen. |
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| Well, since proper horsemanship dictates ALWAYS passing on the inside, loping horses should warm up on the inside. Left shoulder to left shoulder when going different directions, always check behind before spur/sliding stops, pay attention to the alley, No racing other horses (kids are especially bad about this), etc. "Sorry" is like my phrase at races because I always apologize for any issue even if it wasn't my fault. lol |
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Location: Florida.. | Tiny children overmounted and strapped on.adult pop horse on butt and hauls arse and kids flailing .. |
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| LAC - 2016-05-19 10:55 AM
iloveequine40 - 2016-05-19 11:25 AM
When a horse refuses the alley and 5 people try to help or someone gets a buggy whip and beats the hell out of it from behind trying to get it in. A well known "trainer/clinician" with an RFDTV show did this at a local jackpot with a student for at least 2 minutes trying to get horse in.
Agree.
IMO they should have a time limit on this kind of stuff. It looks bad for the public and people or horses can get hurt.
And they normally run like crap when they do get them in which makes it even more irritating.
I'm surprised there weren't more add on comments for this post. I think most folks know now that if you have a horse that you have to 'beat/whip' for 5 minutes to get into the pen, HELLO, he's trying to tell you something is wrong. In my neck of the woods we don't usually see that behavior at a barrel race. Sometimes at a playday or NBHA show, but not at at most barrel races here in North Texas.
If someone has an RFDTV show and doesn't understand this basic behavior, that is very unfortunate. |
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| When you beat someone...
And they feel the need to offer you advice as to how you can better ride your mount.  |
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Location: on my horse | Gunner11 - 2016-05-24 8:29 AM
One of my pet peeves is people who complain about exhibitions. If you don't like them, you know when the race starts, so just show up 30 minutes before the start time. Good for you that you don't need them, but I'm willing to bet there are more people who are thankful for them than those who hate them.
It seems a lot of people are forgetting that barrel racing is 100% optional and how incredibly lucky you are that you get to participate. I know a gal who can find something wrong with every arena she goes to, and my opinion is, if it's really that bad, just stop doing it. I'm honestly just happy that I get to go at all, and I'm thankful that there are several races in my area. Not every arena is ideal, but I just suck it up because it's all part of it. Unless I'm willing to put on a race myself, I really have no room to gripe.
On a side note, to address those who don't understand why you can't bring in your own shavings, it's probably a quality control issue. If everyone were allowed to bring in their own shavings, there's no telling what kind of trash and junk some people will have in theirs. Not everyone buys brand new bags, you'll have people sweep up and haul in whatever they think can pass for bedding, then the venue has to deal with cleaning that junk up, and risking contamination from who-knows-what is in there.
I never thought about the shavings thing like that. Good point! |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | WiscoRacer - 2016-05-20 9:09 PM MS2011 - 2016-05-20 10:56 AM linds - 2016-05-20 10:54 AM barrelracer1983 - 2016-05-20 10:29 AM MS2011 - 2016-05-20 8:24 AM barrelracer1983 - 2016-05-20 10:18 AM I love dogs but so many bend this rule. NO DOGS ALLOWED means just that!!! People still bring their dogs in the stands. If it's sitting quietly in the stands with it's owners - how does this negatively affect your run? quote] Exactly!
As someone who's been chased by a dog during a run and had to rerun, rules are rules for a reason. |
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| smug people that can't cough out a hello let alone a smile... and people that go on and on about their run yet when you talk about your they won't give you the time a day or look at you like you are complaining. |
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Location: Texas | When people leave halters attached to lead ropes tied to trailers or to stalls in the alleyway. Not just a danger to that horse but to horses passing by as well.
When people have super dangerous horses who will take anyone and anything out in their path on the way to the arena. Last weekend at a rodeo I was first out and a girls horse (who was up at the end of slack) wouldn't move out of the way, rearing and kicking out at anyone who came up to try to help her get him moved. Not the time or place to have a horse like that up there. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | Another peev of mine (that I don't think anyone else had mentioned yet) is when I see riders run their FAT and out of shape horses. Don't they realize that they could seriously hurt their horse?? |
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| The warm up pen. I really think barrel racers should warm up like reiners do with the circling. They split one end of the arena going on a large circle to the left while the other goes to the right. It would solve everyone cutting in front of each other and that random person who is going the opposite direction through the busiest areas of traffic!
Groups of people that just walk their horses buddied up next to each other and chitchat really annoy me especially if it is a small arena. Seriously just get out of the warm up arena people! Same with groups of kids who are riding their horses bareback zooming in between riders.
When people let their horses roll in the warm up pen, while it is busy! Wait till later or don't do it at all!!!
Before runs, people who constantly walk their horses up to the alley way gate part of the arena during the drag and just sit on their horses even if they aren't running for 10 more sets, and a lot of them do it repeatedly! I really don't think it's going to help your horse that much. It's really frustrating when you are the first one out and they take their sweet time walking out of the alley way while you are trying get your horse set up to run!
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| WrapN3MN - 2016-05-19 12:39 PM
People who run their horse and 5 minutes later they're back in the stands talking to their friends. GO WALK OUT AND WATER YOUR HORSE!
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| christylynn89 - 2016-06-01 3:40 PM
The warm up pen. I really think barrel racers should warm up like reiners do with the circling. They split one end of the arena going on a large circle to the left while the other goes to the right. It would solve everyone cutting in front of each other and that random person who is going the opposite direction through the busiest areas of traffic!
Groups of people that just walk their horses buddied up next to each other and chitchat really annoy me especially if it is a small arena. Seriously just get out of the warm up arena people! Same with groups of kids who are riding their horses bareback zooming in between riders.
When people let their horses roll in the warm up pen, while it is busy! Wait till later or don't do it at all!!!
Before runs, people who constantly walk their horses up to the alley way gate part of the arena during the drag and just sit on their horses even if they aren't running for 10 more sets, and a lot of them do it repeatedly! I really don't think it's going to help your horse that much. It's really frustrating when you are the first one out and they take their sweet time walking out of the alley way while you are trying get your horse set up to run!
I can think of more but those are it for now!
Most of our arenas do the split circles with the rail being counterclockwise only. It's like an unspoken rule. haha
I do the walking and standing in the alley thing, and yes it works. My big freight train would've been blown up years ago if I didn't do it. Especially the drag after she runs, we always relax in the alley. Kept her nice and quiet for 4 years of hard running (was still calm and cool when she got hurt and retired). We are always out before the tractor is parked though. |
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| WiscoRacer - 2016-05-20 9:09 PM
MS2011 - 2016-05-20 10:56 AM
linds - 2016-05-20 10:54 AM barrelracer1983 - 2016-05-20 10:29 AM MS2011 - 2016-05-20 8:24 AM barrelracer1983 - 2016-05-20 10:18 AM I love dogs but so many bend this rule. NO DOGS ALLOWED means just that!!! People still bring their dogs in the stands. If it's sitting quietly in the stands with it's owners - how does this negatively affect your run? Rules are rules!
As someone who's been chased by a dog during a run and had to rerun, rules are rules for a reason.
This is why I think all dogs should be on leashes at jackpots https://youtu.be/Bust_0KA2cY if the owner has it on a leash and it sits quietly with owner, I don't mind a bit. |
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Location: Fort Worth / Springtown | christylynn89 - 2016-06-01 2:40 PM The warm up pen. I really think barrel racers should warm up like reiners do with the circling. They split one end of the arena going on a large circle to the left while the other goes to the right. It would solve everyone cutting in front of each other and that random person who is going the opposite direction through the busiest areas of traffic! Groups of people that just walk their horses buddied up next to each other and chitchat really annoy me especially if it is a small arena. Seriously just get out of the warm up arena people! Same with groups of kids who are riding their horses bareback zooming in between riders. When people let their horses roll in the warm up pen, while it is busy! Wait till later or don't do it at all!!! Before runs, people who constantly walk their horses up to the alley way gate part of the arena during the drag and just sit on their horses even if they aren't running for 10 more sets, and a lot of them do it repeatedly! I really don't think it's going to help your horse that much. It's really frustrating when you are the first one out and they take their sweet time walking out of the alley way while you are trying get your horse set up to run! I can think of more but those are it for now!
I like this idea a lot! So many barrel races I go to the circle is always going the same direction -- and I have to be an oddball - I leave and come back and stay at the race all day - same direction Of course there are many places I go to that don't have much warm up area to begin with.... |
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Location: East Texas | Lots of complaints about the warm up pens....... last three pro rodeos I went to they were warming up in the grass next to the parking lot. There were dogs on the loose, ropers swinging ropes evrywhere, balloons flying around, a band setting up beating on the drums, trucks and trailers coming and going, etc., and I did not hear one complaint. |
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| CrossDRanch - 2016-06-03 10:01 AM Lots of complaints about the warm up pens....... last three pro rodeos I went to they were warming up in the grass next to the parking lot. There were dogs on the loose, ropers swinging ropes evrywhere, balloons flying around, a band setting up beating on the drums, trucks and trailers coming and going, etc., and I did not hear one complaint.
That is why I don't rodeo, plus I am not fast enough.
jackpots and rodeos are different animals, rodeos have several events, jackpot is just barrels and caters to the barrel racers wanting good ground, drags, etc., not the rodeo atmosphere. You are right though, compared to a rodeo there is much more to appreciate than complain about.
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