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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | It's 'ho for mares, whoa for geldings, and close your eyes, hold on for dear life and pray for stallions. |
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  More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Three 4 Luck - 2014-03-10 7:44 AM It's 'ho for mares, whoa for geldings, and close your eyes, hold on for dear life and pray for stallions.
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: Stillwater, OK | Whoa means STOP. Hoe means a promiscuous person.
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Location: Lala Land | Whoa dammit!! NO WHOA you sorry SOB.... that's kinda how it's been lately. lol |
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| I dont say whoa to cue my horses but I know alot of girls that do. A close friend of mine does it to cue herself during the race and it helps her breathe. She likes to hold her breath alot. |
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 Can You Hear Me Now?
Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | CYA Ranch - 2014-03-10 7:47 AM
Three 4 Luck - 2014-03-10 7:44 AM It's 'ho for mares, whoa for geldings, and close your eyes, hold on for dear life and pray for stallions.
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | I have kind of always agreed . but then again my horses don't stop for "whoa" they stop for my seat so I probably could spit out anything and it probably wouldn't matter.
I always say their name instead and it usually works for me, and it reminds me who I'm riding. |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | First of all, if you truly are concerned about what people say during their pattern, I suggest you find something better to spend your time on...I really only notice it if people drop cuss words, I don't pass judgment on people saying whoa at a barrel...or when they drop a bomb, LOL.
If someone says whoa at a barrel and you find it odd, that's your perogative. I was taught to say whoa, and I think I have an idea of what I am doing. this reminds me of the tiedown threads. It works for me to say it, and I'm really not going to give a flip if someone thinks I'm ignorant for not choosing a different word. Like I said earlier, my horses stop and transition down based on my body language. And they know when we are making a run, not to completely stop.. |
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More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | casualdust07 - 2014-03-10 10:30 AM First of all, if you truly are concerned about what people say during their pattern, I suggest you find something better to spend your time on...I really only notice it if people drop cuss words, I don't pass judgment on people saying whoa at a barrel...or when they drop a bomb, LOL. If someone says whoa at a barrel and you find it odd, that's your perogative. I was taught to say whoa, and I think I have an idea of what I am doing. this reminds me of the tiedown threads. It works for me to say it, and I'm really not going to give a flip if someone thinks I'm ignorant for not choosing a different word. Like I said earlier, my horses stop and transition down based on my body language. And they know when we are making a run, not to completely stop..
You worded that so well. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | CYA Ranch - 2014-03-10 10:33 AM
casualdust07 - 2014-03-10 10:30 AM First of all, if you truly are concerned about what people say during their pattern, I suggest you find something better to spend your time on...I really only notice it if people drop cuss words, I don't pass judgment on people saying whoa at a barrel...or when they drop a bomb, LOL. If someone says whoa at a barrel and you find it odd, that's your perogative. I was taught to say whoa, and I think I have an idea of what I am doing. this reminds me of the tiedown threads. It works for me to say it, and I'm really not going to give a flip if someone thinks I'm ignorant for not choosing a different word. Like I said earlier, my horses stop and transition down based on my body language. And they know when we are making a run, not to completely stop..
You worded that so well.
She did, hit it on the mark  I'm another one that say's Whoa and I really don't care what anyone says. |
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You get what you give
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Location: Texas | I didn't even know it was an issue..LOL I wonder how many times I've been judged for posting my videos on here and oh lord, you can hear me say whoa! At least the timer doesn't add tenths to my time over it. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | LopinOkie88 - 2014-03-10 9:17 AM
Whoa means STOP. Hoe means a promiscuous person.
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Whoa means stop.
Hoe is a gardening tool.
Ho is a lady of the night.
Ho ho ho is what Santa says.
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 Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | barrelracr131 - 2014-03-10 10:54 AM LopinOkie88 - 2014-03-10 9:17 AM Whoa means STOP. Hoe means a promiscuous person. Actually, Whoa means stop. Hoe is a gardening tool. Ho is a lady of the night. Ho ho ho is what Santa says. The end.
I agree. Hoe is a gardening tool lol..... |
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 Balance Beam and more...
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Location: 31 lengths farms | I'm guilty of typing or writing "whoa" and saying "Ho" but my horses stop so I'm good with it. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Whoa or Hoe? It depends on who I'm talking to....  |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Lovin Life - 2014-03-10 9:27 AM
Whoa dammit!! NO WHOA you sorry SOB.... that's kinda how it's been lately. lol
Love it!!! But to answer everyone... The horse does not hear the 'W' in "whoa" only the "O".
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 Forever Young at Heart
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Location: Way down yonder in the indian nation~Oklahoma | It depends... if I'm calming a baby, or one that is having a momentary melt down, I say whoa... slowly, in a low, soft quiet type of voice (ie: inside voice). If I'm trying to stop a runaway I'm probably gonna scream cuss words with a few whoa and ho both... If I'm asking for rate at a barrel, and I remember to speak, it probably sounds more like ho than whoa, but I'm certain my horse knows what I'm saying!!! |
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 Fact Checker
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | FirstFirewater - 2014-03-09 6:59 PM Some seem to find it beneath them to worry about what others do or say-
HUH?????
Why would a person worry about anything other than their OWN run??? |
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 I Don't Brag
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| It all depends on what cues a person has trained with.
I have used whoa and here are cues to rate a barrel. What someone else uses doesn't bother me in the least....it's their horse! And anybody who chooses to judge me for using whoa....well that bothers me just about as much.....as in not much at all. I could friggin care less what they think.
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Depends on who I am talking to :) |
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