Barrel Racing 101- What not to do!

**I DO NOT OWN THESE CLIPS
Warning Contains Flashes. Some of the more painful moments of barrel racing.


Song: Not my Time
By: 3 Doors Down

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• barrel
• racing
• horses
• pain
• accidents
• doors
• down
• not
• my
• time
• turnNburn12

[iluvbarrelracing1]

ok i am having trouble with my horse i cant get him to trot around the barrels or faster than a trot but i can get him to go faster that a trot going to the barrels .. so how do i get him to trot around the barrels without him stoping to a walk?

[turnNburn12]

@iluvbarrelracing1 Well I would continue working slow stuff. It's important to ingrain the basics. As far as maintaining the trot around the barrel you might be asking your horse for too tight of a turn too early. Regardless of the size of your circle around each barrel try to keep your horse to maintain the trot around each barrel being light on the face only touching his face to remind him to flex his body around

[turnNburn12]

Continued-

As he becomes comfortable with that size of circle gradually make it smaller until he's maintaining the trot and turning it nice a tight

[Cowgirlup291]

Like nervous entering the arena

[turnNburn12]

The only good way to handle a nervous horse that doesn't want to enter the area is remaining calm and keeping forward motion. It also helps to keep a horse walking before he enters the area making sure he's relaxed and calm before he goes in.

[Cowgirlup291]

Hey I was just wondering if you could give some tips on how to handle the horse when she's upset or nervous...that kind of stuff!

[turnNburn12]

Well what exactly do u mean by upset and nervous? Do you mean handling a nervous horse when u barrel race or just in general? Also what is the horse nervous about?Entering the area or having an "area sour" horse is very common in barrel racing

[musefodder]

The stupid of some of these riders amazes me. To pull on a western curb bit in the horse's mouth until they throw their heads and rear, and then kick them to make them go faster while still hauling back on the reins? The sport isn't cruel, the riders are just .... well.

[stunt729]

It is not cruel in no way shape or form we do not beat neglect or hurt the horses in any way ..they love what they do

[bl18mm06]

is this all at the same show? man... they had some bad luck! :P

[ShowJumper112]

At 1:17! Holy cow! She ALMOST stayed on! Like WOW!

[AnimeOrigamiable]

@stunt729 i agree, a lot of the horses i've seen doing this, when they lose the rider, they just continue the barrels because the WANT to do it!

[overthebull81]

it is sattle bronk barrol racing

[TheHopeAndAshleyShow]

@Haileyandbuddy Whaaa ??..

[Haileyandbuddy]

@TheHopeAndAshleyShow That's all us equestrians can do, huh?

[TheHopeAndAshleyShow]

@Haileyandbuddy That's amazing ! My horse isn't used to that kind of stuff so she would probably freak out but I'm gonna keep practicing with her(:

[Haileyandbuddy]

@TheHopeAndAshleyShow Awesome:) I goat-tie and as soon as I go to jump off my new horse, Gracie, she stops and then follows me over to the goat without me leading her. It's quite awesome

[TheHopeAndAshleyShow]

@Haileyandbuddy That's amazing. At a show I fell off my horse bareback for some fun extra event and I landed under my horse and she stopped in her tracks and waited for me.. Then she started running cause all my family started running into the arena and spooked her but by then I had managed to get myself out from under her.(:

[Haileyandbuddy]

@TheHopeAndAshleyShow Agreed. If you watch the video where I fell as soon as I started to fall Buddy slid to a stop and didn't move a muscle until I led him out of the arena.