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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-29 11:12 AM Murphy - 2014-05-29 11:10 AM Doesn't really bother me.... doesn't effect my life in any way. Ditto 
^^^^ DITTO AGAIN
Sounds just a "tad" bit judgmental to me......
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Location: Where I am happiest | There are ALOT of older, has beens. Been there, done that and won that but dont compete anymore for one reason or another.Or physical injuries and age prevent them from competing to that level again. Doesnt mean they have never been, nore does it mean they have forgotten everything they know. Those can darn sure be someone worth listening to. You just might learn something.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | What difference does it make? What's the difference between a "barrel racer" and someone who says they compete in barrel racing? Practically all of us are amateurs anyway. |
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| I have thrown my leg over some nice ones in the past and have been able to ride them to some nice wins. Have not been able to compete full time in 6 years because life gets in the way. Working full time and having a husband that wants to go rope every weekend (with me, I dang sure dont sit and watch), doesnt leave much time for going to the barrel races (Im lucky to get to go to 4-5 a year).
I dont think that makes me any less of a rider or means that I forgot how to run barrels, or that I dont know a good run (or good horse/rider) from a bad one when I see it .... just waiting for the right time to pick be able to go again.
....Of course I am typing this from "behind my desk" at work so I can help pay for our expensive hobbies so I could be wrong.  |
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| kboltwkreations - 2014-05-29 2:56 PM
I have thrown my leg over some nice ones in the past and have been able to ride them to some nice wins. Have not been able to compete full time in 6 years because life gets in the way. Working full time and having a husband that wants to go rope every weekend (with me, I dang sure dont sit and watch), doesnt leave much time for going to the barrel races (Im lucky to get to go to 4-5 a year).
I dont think that makes me any less of a rider or means that I forgot how to run barrels, or that I dont know a good run (or good horse/rider) from a bad one when I see it .... just waiting for the right time to pick be able to go again.
....Of course I am typing this from "behind my desk" at work so I can help pay for our expensive hobbies so I could be wrong.
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Location: Texas | ehhhh I don't really care. The people that spend 99% of a conversation talking about themselves will get that reputation pretty quick without me doing anything about it. Some people live in a world all about them, and in their world- they are #1! whatever floats their boat I guess. |
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Location: where ever my L/Q trl is parked | FlyingJT - 2014-05-29 3:04 PM kboltwkreations - 2014-05-29 2:56 PM I have thrown my leg over some nice ones in the past and have been able to ride them to some nice wins. Have not been able to compete full time in 6 years because life gets in the way. Working full time and having a husband that wants to go rope every weekend (with me, I dang sure dont sit and watch), doesnt leave much time for going to the barrel races (Im lucky to get to go to 4-5 a year).
I dont think that makes me any less of a rider or means that I forgot how to run barrels, or that I dont know a good run (or good horse/rider) from a bad one when I see it .... just waiting for the right time to pick be able to go again.
....Of course I am typing this from "behind my desk" at work so I can help pay for our expensive hobbies so I could be wrong.
Been there; done that
Edited by Aqhaczy 2014-05-29 3:11 PM
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Location: Washington | Not sure I want to step into this but since this was just a vent, and the last time I checked we were allowed to do that here, this is mine.
I get tired of explaining the difference between a jackpot or a 5-D barrel race, fun show, or a gymkhana that they are not rodeos. AND trust me I still get told I am wrong.
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Location: Texas | fatchance - 2014-05-29 3:13 PM
Not sure I want to step into this but since this was just a vent, and the last time I checked we were allowed to do that here, this is mine.
I get tired of explaining the difference between a jackpot or a 5-D barrel race, fun show, or a gymkhana that they are not rodeos. AND trust me I still get told I am wrong. Carry on.
that does bother me too, I know it shouldn't but it does. the 5D on saturday is not a rodeo….not a rodeo!! |
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| Aqhaczy - 2014-05-29 3:09 PM FlyingJT - 2014-05-29 3:04 PM kboltwkreations - 2014-05-29 2:56 PM I have thrown my leg over some nice ones in the past and have been able to ride them to some nice wins. Have not been able to compete full time in 6 years because life gets in the way. Working full time and having a husband that wants to go rope every weekend (with me, I dang sure dont sit and watch), doesnt leave much time for going to the barrel races (Im lucky to get to go to 4-5 a year).
I dont think that makes me any less of a rider or means that I forgot how to run barrels, or that I dont know a good run (or good horse/rider) from a bad one when I see it .... just waiting for the right time to pick be able to go again.
....Of course I am typing this from "behind my desk" at work so I can help pay for our expensive hobbies so I could be wrong.
Been there; done that
I do rope with him, I wasnt husband bashing. |
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Location: Texas | I have another vent! when people put the $ in the wrong place. its $500, not 500$. in my defense, I also put that on Facebook this morning. |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | casualdust07 - 2014-05-29 3:15 PM
fatchance - 2014-05-29 3:13 PM
Not sure I want to step into this but since this was just a vent, and the last time I checked we were allowed to do that here, this is mine.
I get tired of explaining the difference between a jackpot or a 5-D barrel race, fun show, or a gymkhana that they are not rodeos. AND trust me I still get told I am wrong. Carry on.
that does bother me too, I know it shouldn't but it does. the 5D on saturday is not a rodeo….not a rodeo!!
This bothers me also. BUT when trying to explain barrel racing to somebody who is 100% uninvolved in horses:
Me: it is was what the women do at rodeos, but I do it in a different type of association/organization/set up/system/payout/division
Them: so do you use four barrels then?
Me: no, it is exactly like at the rodeo
Them: so you rodeo then, gosh just say that! Why make it so complicated?
Me: *facepalm* ok, yes, I rodeo. *ugh sigh*
Lol. But seriously, horse-"educated" people who interchange all of the various barrel racing formats drives me nuts. |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | casualdust07 - 2014-05-29 3:19 PM
I have another vent! when people put the $ in the wrong place. its $500, not 500$. in my defense, I also put that on Facebook this morning.
Ooooooo errant dollar signs!!! What about errant apostrophes?? Those are my favorite!!! I swear..... |
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| You want to know what really irks me???
too bad I'm gonna tell you anyway...
when you list a horse for sale and someone calls and emails repeatedly wanting pics and videos and stats and you know from the very first contact that they couldn't afford your horse to start with. It's usually some stupid kid that thinks they know everything and wants to tell me how I should be riding my horses |
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Location: WYOMING | IM A BARREL RACER!  |
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Location: your guess is as good as mine | geronabean - 2014-05-29 2:50 PM IM A BARREL RACER!
I'm not...but I DID stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
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Location: Texas | txdad - 2014-05-29 3:49 PM
You want to know what really irks me???
too bad I'm gonna tell you anyway...
when you list a horse for sale and someone calls and emails repeatedly wanting pics and videos and stats and you know from the very first contact that they couldn't afford your horse to start with. It's usually some stupid kid that thinks they know everything and wants to tell me how I should be riding my horses
I had one of those… after the offer for 4500 sock monkeys in exchange for my beast I shut it down LOL |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | ThreeCorners - 2014-05-29 2:46 PM There are ALOT of older, has beens. Been there, done that and won that but dont compete anymore for one reason or another.Or physical injuries and age prevent them from competing to that level again. Doesnt mean they have never been, nore does it mean they have forgotten everything they know. Those can darn sure be someone worth listening to. You just might learn something.
Additionally, there are those who have NEVER won big....but they certainly could train a horse that was capable of winning! |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | I think someone forgot to tell Charmayne James she "used to be a barrel racer" at the American...Some of our best clinicians "used" to be barrel racers, some of them haven't even ever entered up. I can tell you from personal experience the best help I ever got was from a old cowboy that had never been around a set of cans in his life but he can sure as heck circle up a cow. Made my barrel horse a much better horse when I quit trying to tell him what I knew and learned what he had to teach me. |
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