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How long would you run a horse...age wise

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rodeowithjoker
Reg. Jun 2006
Posted 2014-08-19 5:11 PM
Subject: RE: How long would you run a horse...age wise



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Location: Kansas		I have a 21 year old who still loves to go.......every so often. I don't like to run him more than once in a weekend and I honestly try to limit him to 3 or 4 runs in a month because he's so much fun that I want to prolong his career. He gets outrun in the big pens or anywhere with really deep ground so I try to avoid those. This year I've been limiting him to district NBHAs and a few other races plus I ran him at one rodeo with crappy ground because he's a crap ground master, but I'm leaving him home this weekend because our district NBHA is in a huge outdoor pen and I haven't been riding Joker enough to ask him to run there. Hopefully I can put some works on him this week & next and take him a week from Sunday.
I've had his hocks injected, and I give him a round of Adequan a couple times a year, plus I keep him on pasture as much as I can due to some breathing issues he's had in past years. I'm hoping I can run him some next year too, but if he tells me he's done, he'll go to my brother & sister-in-law's "retirement" home with their two oldies and rule the pasture. 
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firewaterfuelsme
Reg. Feb 2013
Posted 2014-08-19 7:27 PM
Subject: RE: How long would you run a horse...age wise


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Location: lone star state		I agree it depends on the horse. I ran a 25 yr old and another who was 23. If you take care of them and don't run their legs off they can easily go into their 20s.
Lisa lockhart has a 21 year old backup horse.
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FirstFirewater
Reg. Nov 2011
Posted 2014-08-19 7:37 PM
Subject: RE: How long would you run a horse...age wise



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Location: Where Governor's make the liscense plates		  I rode a 3D mare until she was 25, she then developed heaves and was retired. She probably would've still ran and gave her last breath for me, I would've bred her if she didn't have a tilted uterus, she actually had a foal right before I purchased her and he was sold and not registered as far as I'm aware :(
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