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 Lady Di
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Location: Oklahoma | I love hacks, and I disagree about them not being good for a bucker....at 62, I am NOT going to hit the ground, and I can tell you, I never ride a new horse w/o putting my Weaver Fast Stop on him....I can't always run them in it, and most sellers are appalled when I pull it out to put it on a horse, but I refuse to ride one I don't know in anything else because I KNOW they can't get their head down to buck. Plus, it also tends to make them ride more collected with their butt down and their shoulders a little more elevated and it tends to make a blown up horse ride more relaxed when you don't have something in their mouths. It's a bump and release headgear, and you have to kind of get used to using it....you have to be pretty light with your hands, but they will tell you when you are being too heavy, as they will shake their head when you pull rather than bump. It's good to teach you not to hang on a hot horse's head. Anyway, I guess you know that I would ride this horse with a Weaver Fast Stop. It WILL keep them from bucking. When they start to want to get that head down, I just bump pretty good and set that butt into the ground, spin them around a couple of times while I'm spanking them and it only takes one or two times of that, and they learn that is not desired behavior. I had one that was an awesome 1D barrel horse, but he would try to buck every time I didn't have the fast stop on him, but they know when it's on and they won't even try....he was one that had to be run in it and he was a winner with it, so I never changed him. I sold him and the gal didn't like running in it, switched him to a bit and he bucked her off. She went back to the fast stop and he went back to winning and not bucking. This is the one I use: http://www.horse.com/item/weaver-fast-stop-browband-headstall/WQW10...
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| Try a clampitt hack. Ronny is really nice and if you explain to him what your wanting and how the horse is, I'm sure he could come up with something great. | |
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 Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | imo...no...i have a low down dirty bronc that i run and i think she would turn really good in an s cheek or even a quick stop but i dont trust her enough......i run her in a chain bit, you could just try a chain with little shanks ......but if its possible for you to do it i would just pony him....
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| He is negative for both types of PSSM, as again, we tested him for both when he flipped over on me the first time (something he had never even offered to do in the past). When it came back clean (and I trust my vet 100%), I retired him from racing.
His racing bit is too much for anything other then running. He was not one to slow work a pattern near the end, and so he just got rode, and now that he's been laid off, he won't quit shaking his head and laying on it whenever he throws a fit. He's a hard mouthed sucker.
Thank you, dianeguinn. That sounds like what I'm looking for. Worth a try at least. | |
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