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Runnincat Reg. Dec 2003	Posted 2016-09-22 1:17 PM Subject: RE: What is something that helped you shave off time?
Worlds Greatest Laugh Location: North Dakota	Teaching a horse to balance themselves in a turn and take the minimal steps necessary to get around it. Setting up a horse so they naturally exit with their hind end. It creates a ton of speed to the next barrel. In fact, you can be walking the pattern and they just about break into a trot on the exit when setup properly.
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Speedy Buckeye Girl Reg. Jun 2010	Posted 2016-09-22 1:50 PM Subject: RE: What is something that helped you shave off time?
Elite Veteran Posts: 878 Location: "...way down south in the Everglades..."	run n rate - 2016-09-20 6:15 PM 3 things have made differences at different times for my horses. 25 plus years ago I dropped @60 lbs and my old 22 year old mare started clocking again. After my then 12 year old mare fractured her hock I was trying to give her a lighter schedule, but that lighter schedule included lighter conditioning. I kept thinking she wasn't clocking because she just wasn't the horse she used to be before the injury. My farrier got after me about her top line and her extra belly, told me to get my butt busy and RIDE her. Took the advice and started long trotting a lot more miles in general on her and she started stopping the clock again. Then a few years ago my little free runner needed a calendar to clock her times...we were on trail rides around the barrel half the time. She'd high lope the prettiest patterns but add more speed and the wheels fell off. We did every cotton picking rate drill that had ever been invented and a few we made up ourselves, LOL!!! Her turns were still a mess unless you did the hi lope thru. Any faster and you'd ask for the rate and her head would kind of come up and get bracey, her ribs would drop and her butt would fall out from under her. Read a post on here about the quick stop or fast stop, whatever its called made by Weaver. Changed our life!!! When I quit having to fight her to rate then she could rate in the proper physical position which made her turns efficient. So mine have been weight, conditioning and rate. and everyone of them was affordable, LOL!!! I think just time and conditioning have been really what has done it for me. Never stop learning!
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Kry5ta1 Reg. Jul 2008	Posted 2016-09-22 9:17 PM Subject: RE: What is something that helped you shave off time?
Three in a Bikini Posts: 2035	To be honest... I posted a thread on here asking for advice on my runs. The main feedback I received was to ride more confident/aggressive. I applied it. And have been running my fastest times all year long. Thanks BHW!
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daisycake123 Reg. Dec 2006	Posted 2016-09-23 6:31 AM Subject: RE: What is something that helped you shave off time?
Sock Snob Posts: 3021	aside conditioning and losing weight. wath the pros they run straight lines and round turns, and are not jumping and kicking and whipping, they sit with a quiet seat and good hands andthere runs are smooth and you go wow how canthey do it.
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daisycake123 Reg. Dec 2006	Posted 2016-09-23 6:33 AM Subject: RE: What is something that helped you shave off time?
Sock Snob Posts: 3021	aside conditioning and losing weight. wath the pros they run straight lines and round turns, and are not jumping and kicking and whipping, they sit with a quiet seat and good hands andthere runs are smooth and you go wow how canthey do it.
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lindseylou2290 Reg. Aug 2013	Posted 2016-09-26 10:47 AM Subject: RE: What is something that helped you shave off time?
Expert Posts: 2457	fatchance - 2016-09-20 10:18 AM Lost weight... THIS ^^^^ I got myself in excellent shape with running and lifting. If my horse is an athlete and I feed her like one, I too need to be in the best shape possible.
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