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| HotbearLVR - 2014-05-30 7:14 AM Vickie - 2014-05-30 6:23 AM When you are watching the NFR on TV and you involuntarily turn to look for the next barrel in your chair in the living room - you are/were a barrel racer. .......or when you are driving down the highway where the speed limit is 55, and you are daydreaming of making a scalding run, and you lean forward and glance down to see you are going 90 mph.......you are a barrel racer.
Or when you are in cycle class doing "ups and downs" out of the seat as one instructor calls it, and everytime you get up one hand pushes forward up the neck of a horse and everyone looks at you like what in the heck are you doing? |
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| rodeomom3 - 2014-05-30 7:35 AM HotbearLVR - 2014-05-30 7:14 AM Vickie - 2014-05-30 6:23 AM When you are watching the NFR on TV and you involuntarily turn to look for the next barrel in your chair in the living room - you are/were a barrel racer. .......or when you are driving down the highway where the speed limit is 55, and you are daydreaming of making a scalding run, and you lean forward and glance down to see you are going 90 mph.......you are a barrel racer.
Or when you are weaving in your seat because you are leaning with the rider on TV or if you are watching, you are a barrel racer! |
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Location: Tumbleweed Capital of the World | sassy&tessa - 2014-05-29 7:51 PM I am just going to throw this out there. I took a 10 year hiatus from running barrels. Still had horses and was messing with them but didn't run. Had my whole childhood. If someone asked what I did, even really up until as of late, I cringed inside because I felt like I wasn't a barrel racer. Still have a hard time saying that because I am not in the 1D.
You just said what I couldn't figure out how to say! :) I took a few years off from owning horses after my got-a-divorce-while-going-through-cancer phase of my life. I used to be really successful running barrels. Anyway, when I finally bought a horse again, my budget was very limited. I ended up buying and selling a few nice young horses that just weren't going to be competitive enough for me. They were all nice colts, and were really well broke when I sold them though. :) And now I have a nice 6 yr old mare who is turning into a world champion practice pen horse. She works well everywhere I take her, except when I pay an entry fee! We make the dumbest rookie mistakes! It's embarrassing. I know she's capable of being a contender, but I think I am her problem. I still know what I'm supposed to do, just can't seem to actually do it. LOL. |
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Location: Loma Linda, CA | There is a whole ranch claiming to be experts out where I came from...
Sure they win all the gymkhanas but you never see them win buckles or keep up in the bigger shows.... but they are the 'experts' after all.
I learned that those who are the experts don't go flaunting themselves. Humility and records/buckles/money talk. Those are who I associate myself with.
I barrel race, but haven't won anything good since high school, nor have I had a horse ready to compete! Hoping my gelding makes at least a decent 3D horse! :P I too take lessons diligently and got a horse training apprenticeship to better myself.
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It doesn't bother me when people claim to be barrel racers... fake it till you make it, but holy god don't claim to be an expert when all you win is gymkhanas! >.< Any idiot with a 4D horse can do that.
In my opinion, a 'barrel racer' is someone who pro rodeos or rodeos and actually wins money and perhaps that is their main source of keeping a float during rodeo season...
A person who barrel races is anyone who competes in the sport, perhaps as a hobby, doing jackpots and maybe even has pro rodeo aspirations, but hasn't hit the big leagues yet.
I am a person who 'barrel races'. I have never ridden in a pro rodeo. Never hit the big leagues, but hopefully one day I'll jockey the horse that takes me there! :D But sometimes it's easier to say you're a barrel racer than I'm a person who barrel races for fun. What a mouth full! :P |
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Location: Loma Linda, CA | Blaine's mom - 2014-05-30 9:09 AM
sassy&tessa - 2014-05-29 7:51 PM Â I am just going to throw this out there. I took a 10 year hiatus from running barrels. Still had horses and was messing with them but didn't run. Had my whole childhood. If someone asked what I did, even really up until as of late, I cringed inside because I felt like I wasn't a barrel racer. Still have a hard time saying that because I am not in the 1D.
You just said what I couldn't figure out how to say! Â :) Â I took a few years off from owning horses after my got-a-divorce-while-going-through-cancer phase of my life. I used to be really successful running barrels. Â Anyway, when I finally bought a horse again, my budget was very limited. Â I ended up buying and selling a few nice young horses that just weren't going to be competitive enough for me. Â They were all nice colts, and were really well broke when I sold them though. Â :) Â And now I have a nice 6 yr old mare who is turning into a world champion practice pen horse. Â She works well everywhere I take her, except when I pay an entry fee! Â We make the dumbest rookie mistakes! Â It's embarrassing. Â I know she's capable of being a contender, but I think I am her problem. Â I still know what I'm supposed to do, just can't seem to actually do it. Â LOL.
I'm in the same spot. I stopped riding when I was 17. Got back into riding last year. Got my horse in February. Have been training him since. I'll be 25 in August. Girls my age are killing it right now. I'm not in any D cause I'm not truly competing yet. I have 1D aspirations though!
Now I have to save up for a truck and trailer so I can start hauling and seasoning. My gelding is loping a pretty decent pattern now! :D |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | Vickie - 2014-05-30 6:23 AM
When you are watching the NFR on TV and you involuntarily turn to look for the next barrel in your chair in the living room -Â you are/were a barrel racer.Â
Or when you mow the grass on your rider and you set and rate before turning the mower!! LOL!!!  |
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| HotbearLVR - 2014-05-30 7:14 AM Vickie - 2014-05-30 6:23 AM When you are watching the NFR on TV and you involuntarily turn to look for the next barrel in your chair in the living room - you are/were a barrel racer. ....... or when you are driving down the highway where the speed limit is 55, and you are daydreaming of making a scalding run, and you lean forward and glance down to see you are going 90 mph.......you are a barrel racer.
oh my goodness, I thought I was the only one that does that. My husband is all "honey, did you win?", all I can do is bust out laughing.... he knows me all to well! |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | FlyingJT - 2014-05-30 10:21 AM
HotbearLVR - 2014-05-30 7:14 AM Vickie - 2014-05-30 6:23 AM When you are watching the NFR on TV and you involuntarily turn to look for the next barrel in your chair in the living room - you are/were a barrel racer. ....... or when you are driving down the highway where the speed limit is 55, and you are daydreaming of making a scalding run, and you lean forward and glance down to see you are going 90 mph.......you are a barrel racer.
Lol especially when there is a good tune on the radio that you like to ride too!! |
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| ndiehl - 2014-05-30 10:24 AM
FlyingJT - 2014-05-30 10:21 AM
HotbearLVR - 2014-05-30 7:14 AM Vickie - 2014-05-30 6:23 AM When you are watching the NFR on TV and you involuntarily turn to look for the next barrel in your chair in the living room - you are/were a barrel racer. ....... or when you are driving down the highway where the speed limit is 55, and you are daydreaming of making a scalding run, and you lean forward and glance down to see you are going 90 mph.......you are a barrel racer.
Lol especially when there is a good tune on the radio that you like to ride too!!
and you feel yourself step on the gas and then let off when you get to the "barrel" and then step on it again. |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | I will get flamed for this so zipping my suit up now. LOL
My pet peeve is people saying I look SO YOUNG. I get it all the time. Omg your how old you only look 18... and then telling me I will like like it when I am 50. Trying to sell a horse and being asked if it's mine or my parents because I'm too young... People keep asking me what I am going to school for too. Weird stares when I go out with dean because even though we are 1 year apart I look that much younger. I am 28 and would at least like to look in the same decade. I tan like crazy hoping to get one wrinkle.... Just 1.  |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Phxbarrel - 2014-05-30 9:24 AM >.< . In my opinion, a 'barrel racer' is someone who pro rodeos or rodeos and actually wins money and perhaps that is their main source of keeping a float during rodeo season... A person who barrel races is anyone who competes in the sport, perhaps as a hobby, doing jackpots and maybe even has pro rodeo aspirations, but hasn't hit the big leagues yet.
Seriously????? I know lots of "jackpot" BARREL RACERS that could hold their own IF they chose to haul and compete in rodeos. And I guess all of the "men" fall into the "person who barrel races"......
And this comment is just plain asinine and RUDE.......
Any idiot with a 4D horse can do that
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | sodapop - 2014-05-30 10:37 AM My real pet peeve.............
People who claim to be bikini models when they aren't.
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Location: In Ky following Barrel Races & Walker hounds. | NJJ - 2014-05-30 11:17 AM
Phxbarrel - 2014-05-30 9:24 AMÂ >.< . In my opinion, a 'barrel racer' is someone who pro rodeos or rodeos and actually wins money and perhaps that is their main source of keeping a float during rodeo season... A person who barrel races is anyone who competes in the sport, perhaps as a hobby, doing jackpots and maybe even has pro rodeo aspirations, but hasn't hit the big leagues yet.
 Seriously????? I know lots of "jackpot" BARREL RACERS that could hold their own IF they chose to haul and compete in rodeos. And I guess all of the "men" fall into the "person who barrel races"......
And this comment is just plain asinine and RUDE.......Any idiot with a 4D horse can do that Â
I dont really have a horse in the race, but I am curious to know what she categorizes herself as..... |
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | Phxbarrel - 2014-05-30 9:24 AM There is a whole ranch claiming to be experts out where I came from... Sure they win all the gymkhanas but you never see them win buckles or keep up in the bigger shows.... but they are the 'experts' after all. I learned that those who are the experts don't go flaunting themselves. Humility and records/buckles/money talk. Those are who I associate myself with. I barrel race, but haven't won anything good since high school, nor have I had a horse ready to compete! Hoping my gelding makes at least a decent 3D horse! :P I too take lessons diligently and got a horse training apprenticeship to better myself. :D It doesn't bother me when people claim to be barrel racers... fake it till you make it, but holy god don't claim to be an expert when all you win is gymkhanas! >.< Any idiot with a 4D horse can do that. In my opinion, a 'barrel racer' is someone who pro rodeos or rodeos and actually wins money and perhaps that is their main source of keeping a float during rodeo season... A person who barrel races is anyone who competes in the sport, perhaps as a hobby, doing jackpots and maybe even has pro rodeo aspirations, but hasn't hit the big leagues yet. I am a person who 'barrel races'. I have never ridden in a pro rodeo. Never hit the big leagues, but hopefully one day I'll jockey the horse that takes me there! :D But sometimes it's easier to say you're a barrel racer than I'm a person who barrel races for fun. What a mouth full! :P
I find the highlighted remark to be defensive and close minded. I use to run, and now my daughter does, a small show series every summer. Guess what, some of the riders (male & female) that run at the bigger 4D shows, pull in to run the jackpot classes (barrels and poles). Generally these riders live close by and can win a nice little amount in one day. Nothing grand or large but well worth their time. The rest of us "idots with 4D horses" are not going to be competive against them if we have not put in the time, work and effort needed and guess what there are no divisions, just 1st thru 5th. So when you place, you are holding your own against some good company. It is usually the 4-H kids holding their own in these classes also. Just because people choose to run smaller shows it does not make them automatically an "idot with a 4D horse" no more than it makes them an expert. There good and bad riders at smaller shows, just like at bigger shows.
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Location: Kentucky | I'm not even a barrel racer and I'm on this forum.... oh s%it! |
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| You're welcome!!! Glad it made you all laugh ;) As much as I like myself tan, I'm naturally not unless I'm in the sun a lot and I get a light tan at that. It's really not healthy. My grandma has had Melanoma twice and my aunt had it once at a very bad, late stage. Luckily they're still alive. I myself have had 7 or 8 moles removed and some of them I had to be put to sleep for because they thought they were going to be cancerous, so they had to take the skin around them as well. ANYWAYS, I'm so sick of people thinking tan is the only pretty. Yes, it covers up all my flaws and it's nice but I'm not gonna ruin my skin for it. That's why I get spray tans every now and then or stick to my white freckley skin. Lol  And I'm so sorry for the loss of your mother, prayers for you and glad you wear sunscreen  |
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| Let me add to the real subject here, I'm not sure exactly what you call a barrel racer. I have a barrel horse and am a beginner barrel racer after wanting to do it forever. I've only shown about 2 or 3 times since I got her last year because I'm trying to just practice and get comfortable before I really try and show more. But it's just a hobby to me, does that make me a barrel racer or am I not professional enough? I'm not bein biotchy when I say that either! |
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Location: Texas | NJJ - 2014-05-30 11:17 AM
Phxbarrel - 2014-05-30 9:24 AMÂ >.< . In my opinion, a 'barrel racer' is someone who pro rodeos or rodeos and actually wins money and perhaps that is their main source of keeping a float during rodeo season... A person who barrel races is anyone who competes in the sport, perhaps as a hobby, doing jackpots and maybe even has pro rodeo aspirations, but hasn't hit the big leagues yet.
 Seriously????? I know lots of "jackpot" BARREL RACERS that could hold their own IF they chose to haul and compete in rodeos. And I guess all of the "men" fall into the "person who barrel races"......
And this comment is just plain asinine and RUDE.......Any idiot with a 4D horse can do that Â
say whaaaaaaaaaaat! Wow.
Barrel racer, runs barrels- to me its the same dang thing. I don't care how I am labeled, and I could care less how people label me, but that post is ridiculous. you run barrels, you are a barrel racer. |
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| Three 4 Luck - 2014-05-30 11:41 AM sodapop - 2014-05-30 10:37 AM My real pet peeve.............
People who claim to be bikini models when they aren't. Cindyt, you've been called out.
I forgot about her avatar picture! LOL
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