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| What is y'alls opinion on teaching your barrel horse reining basics? Ive heard its good for hot horses who just want to go go go but I want to know y'alls opinion on it. Thanks! |
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| I think if you're referring to good circles, speed changes, using the hind end to stop, rollbacks - it all creates a nice well rounded horse. I don't know if I'd need to go so far as to put sliders on and teach them to lay down tracks or spin multiple 360's - but the basics are the same as I'd want on any good truly broke horse IMO |
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Location: SE KS | The neighbor girl uses my barrel horse in our local showdeo in reining & I use him in Western Pleasure, I expect him to do whatever I ask!! |
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| I like this kind of foundation on any horse I ride. Body control, IMO, is a big deal. |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | I'm taking a reining clinic with my ottb next month. |
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| Most of the "basics" are exactly like reining horses. It is great for them. I took a reining lesson a couple years ago and it helped my riding tremendously and my horses being able to move better. I don't teach my horses to slide or to do complete spins but rollbacks and collection is definitely a good thing. |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | The best horse I have ever owned was a reiner I turned into a barrel horse. She is by far my favorite horse to ride! |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | the foundation is great, but if they are very finished, there is a lot of retraining for the most part. Most barrel racers use contact. Either going into the turn, during or finishing the turn. Reiners pretty much have zero contact the entire time if they are very finished.
The girl that starts my colts has them loping these absolutely perfect reining circles, they know how to break at the poll with the slightest pressure, can turn on the forehand, pivot on the hind/roll back and move ribs. I had her put 30 on one and 45 on another. Neither were at the point of neck reining yet so it was so easy to just start them on barrels when they were ready. Once they are taught indirect reining, it's strange for them to be asked to turn a barrel with direct pressure. I can take them on and not have to change them up much to my style of riding, with the trainer I use. So who does your reining training would really depend on whether it would help or hinder a barrel horse. |
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| wyoming barrel racer - 2016-08-31 1:30 PM
the foundation is great, but if they are very finished, there is a lot of retraining for the most part. Most barrel racers use contact. Either going into the turn, during or finishing the turn. Reiners pretty much have zero contact the entire time if they are very finished.
The girl that starts my colts has them loping these absolutely perfect reining circles, they know how to break at the poll with the slightest pressure, can turn on the forehand, pivot on the hind/roll back and move ribs. I had her put 30 on one and 45 on another. Neither were at the point of neck reining yet so it was so easy to just start them on barrels when they were ready. Once they are taught indirect reining, it's strange for them to be asked to turn a barrel with direct pressure. I can take them on and not have to change them up much to my style of riding, with the trainer I use. So who does your reining training would really depend on whether it would help or hinder a barrel horse.
I would agree^^^. The reining training can be "over done", but when done right it's a great foundation for any horse or discipline IMO. |
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Location: Running my kids somewhere. | My best barrel horses are the hot rejected reining horses. Love them! |
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| When I first started riding years ago, I rode with a girl that raised and trained reining horses. I love the foundation and control it provides when they are ready to start barrels. |
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| I love to start one on barrels who has a good reining foundation on them . My daughter loaned her barrel and pole mare out to a kid a week ago to use in the 4H horse show after the kids horse was hurt the night before so no practice at all. She showed english classes and western classes and got grands we were pretty proud of her. |
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| I love it. |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | My gelding was the first horse I ever started from the ground up, I wanted to make sure I had a great handle on him before I started the pattern so I found a way to trade cleaning stalls for lessons with a reined cow horse trainer. Best decision I ever made. You know you've done something right when Ed Wright asks you "who did the work on him?" at his first clinic as a 3 year old, when I told him I had with some lessons Ed says "nicely done, that sucker is broke broke broke".
We've been able to go a lot of different directions because of that start too. |
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