Barrel racers, tend to obsess about the pattern. So I created a handy diagram to help you make yours the best, fastest, and cleanest it can be! For years, I struggled big-time on how to turn the second barrel. I had trouble understanding how to keep my knee in front of the barrel, and how…
May your beef be tender, your horses be sound, your weather be lovely and your soul surrounded by peace and love. Merry Christmas from all my ponies and myself. Be blessed!
How do you help a ratey horse free up? How do you help a free-running horse, rate up? In this video below, I’ll share a few of my tips. One thing I want you to note; I don’t often ask my really ratey horse, Dino, to gather up and get soft. I want to know…
Due to the dumpster fire that is 2020, the Better Barrel Races World Finals had to reschedule. The event, typically held in April, had to move to August. Now, for some of you, that’s not a big deal. But when you’re not used to 80% relative humidity, and the sweltering heat of Oklahoma in the…
I’m making a new barrel horse. I mean, this is what I did for a living for a lot of years. But since I’ve moved to the ranch I slowed down and had to wait for the colts we raised to get old enough. Well, they’re getting old enough. DX And The City, Cosmo, is…
Keep in mind, you only have about 10 minutes of quality time to train at the lope. Due to this, I do most of my softening work at the walk.
Over the course of the next four weeks, I’m going to share with you, the basics of collection. This series will show you where I start, and how I progress. As we delve further into collection, I’ll show you how this relates to the barrel pattern. I need to start by saying this: I believe…
We like our horses to tune into our seat and our body, so we can use the reins and our legs to refine the cues we give them for turnarounds, rollbacks, spins, or gathering up so we can do a canter pirouette (or swap directions quickly to corral an unruly bull come fall). Plus, anyone else can use “whoa” or “ho” and that might mean something to our horse when we don’t need it to.