Starting Gate Wreck at Yavapai Downs

Starting Gate Wreck at Yavapai Downs

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Sports

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• Horse
• Racing
• Starting
• Gate

[Militarylove2012]

@agentLESLIEgee Yes, I agree but like I said horses aren't robots. They have their own minds and will do what they please. Wether it's what they were trained to do or not, it's up to them. I have some very well trained horses and they do act up once in a while, but they are horses not robots.

[agentLESLIEgee]

@Militarylove2012 Training properly has everything to do with it. I don't know what credentials you have, but as a license trainer in 3 states, I'll go ahead and say that you have to teach a horse how to stand in those gates and get approval before they let you run. It's too bad some people just sign off on it without seeing the horses behavior. It's an embarrassment as a trainer to have your horse act up even a moderate amount let alone jump out of the damned gates.

[ImtheOriginalDougieD]

@TheChopsinator Quarter horses are very hot blooded, and although most of them can be trained to deal with the gate, some are just ignorant and will flip like crazy. Doesnt happen too often, but sometimes things happen.

Further more, dressage, show jumping and police horses use either warm bloods or cold bloods, and if they use a hot blooded breed, they use the calmest they can find. Every horse has a personality of its own.

[TheRobynandColeTeam]

Probably Just a super fresh day, these horses may have just been moved, or theres a weather change, or some new spray was put in the hay, or maybe there was a spooky thing happening around them, so many things that couldve been the case, Its rare this happens and the horses are the ones that decide what happens, You can cooperate with horses, but if one says HELL NO and is set dead for refusal, well, lemme just say, jockees weigh around 100 pounds that aint gonna beak a horse.

[EveyTheUnforgotten]

This place was a wreck. I used to show at the downs with our horse club. And In one day I helped round up 3 loose race horses running around the lower barn area. Horses were running loose left and right. This was a dangerous place for spectators, let alone dangerous for the horses. But luckily they will not be racing anymore, since the downs are shut down.

[Militarylove2012]

@TheChopsinator Funny how you didnt mention race horses in that little bunch. Yes even the best trained horses have a mind of hteir own. If they want to do somehting they will., God they arent robots.

[newstarcadefan]

Damn....did these horses forget their schooling? Most of the time they sit there with one, or two, acting up.

[TheChopsinator]

@Militarylove2012 Amazing! I never had much trouble controlling horses. Seems people do it every day- in dressage, in show jumping, in police work. Do you live in a cave?

[Militarylove2012]

@xxibitsuxx What I mean by control is that the horse has its own mind, they know their job and htey love it, if you dont get that gate open fast enough thats what happens. Some horses are just "flippers" meaning they always have flipped.

[xxibitsuxx]

@Militarylove2012 If the horse is trained correctly, you won't have to "control" it, because it will be comfortable with starting gates and know exactly what to do, and how to behave. Accidents do happen, but desensitizing a horse to such small spaces helps a great deal.