that was an awsome run!!! but to all those begginers watching to learn, when you pull up at the end it is normally safer to ride rite into the fence so if your horse doessnt turn suddenly and throw u.
Yanking on that long shank bit and smacking it on the neck to make it run faster, I didn't see spurs but still the act of kicking it so hard your legs fly up and out to the sides...I never understood how all of that was acceptable.
@KatiLynnKing Great ride! I didn't grasp at first that the circling was deliberate on your part, but obviously you had things well under control. That's the only video I have of you, sorry. Good luck with your riding!
@Leslie Gibbons I love on my horse and kiss it after a good or bad run... also I run in a snaffle no abuse at my barn we literally kick out people who don't feed their horses... as you can see my profile is me and the horse I run xena she loves her job and loves me when I walk into the barn she nickers at me and holds her head still so I can kiss her nose lol and the horse im training and her go in the same paddock for night time and when I walk in they both come to me so dont judge barrel racers and pole benders for the bad ones/ yahoo's judge them for the good ones
Horses may have more sensitive skin, but you should try using an over under whip when running home on a barrel pattern. It doesn't make contact near as much at it looks. You pull it to go to the other side before I reaches. It taps and rubs and looks a lot fiercer than it is. It isn't like a stiff dressage whip that can easily be guiding. That thing is flapping in the breeze and going everywhere, but you almost never get a hit that connects well. I have a small, flopping braided nylon whip with leather at the end. When I use it, that whip pretty much slides up the side of my horse's butt and might tap the top when it flicks in the breeze. Half of why I have it is to threaten other people's horses because the people I run against have some absolute butthole horses. Besides, a barrel/pole horse wants to go forward, and they're not always going to listen when you want to stop or stand or turn or not turn. You need leverage to stop and hold them back. You need power to turn. You need spurs to keep them from leaning over smashing your knee on a barrel or smacking you in the face with a pole. The horse wants to make the pattern. They don't really care if they hit a barrel or a pole in the process. That's why you need spurs to remind them to stay off the barrels and poles and a bit that can stop them before they run into the fence. These horses aren't for pleasure riders or inexperienced people. The horse has a job it wants to do, and if you can't control it, don't ride it. One of my barrel horses has to have spurs because she can and will run over barrels and needs to be pushed out when going into them. She's not having a bad time. I do think the kicking is excessive with a lot of them and there's a lot of 'barrel racing bits' that I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, but the people at the top got there for a reason, and you can see the excitement of the horse before every run and the appreciation of the rider after.
A friend of ours had a mule that could run triple A time
Mule getting it DONE!!
Ok I have never seen this before xd
good job
This is awesome!!! This is what I aspire to be
Damn that is one hell of a mule. Great job
that was an awsome run!!! but to all those begginers watching to learn, when you pull up at the end it is normally safer to ride rite into the fence so if your horse doessnt turn suddenly and throw u.
Yanking on that long shank bit and smacking it on the neck to make it run faster, I didn't see spurs but still the act of kicking it so hard your legs fly up and out to the sides...I never understood how all of that was acceptable.
@KatiLynnKing Great ride! I didn't grasp at first that the circling was deliberate on your part, but obviously you had things well under control. That's the only video I have of you, sorry. Good luck with your riding!
just saying, at the end there was no reason to smack the horse. it didnt help the mule go faster.
Leslie Gibbons no we don’t? Lmao
@Leslie Gibbons Exuse me? i dont wear spurs. do i whip my horse? yea. is my horse in pain? no. my horse also gets tons of love.
@Leslie Gibbons I love on my horse and kiss it after a good or bad run... also I run in a snaffle no abuse at my barn we literally kick out people who don't feed their horses... as you can see my profile is me and the horse I run xena she loves her job and loves me when I walk into the barn she nickers at me and holds her head still so I can kiss her nose lol and the horse im training and her go in the same paddock for night time and when I walk in they both come to me so dont judge barrel racers and pole benders for the bad ones/ yahoo's judge them for the good ones
Horses may have more sensitive skin, but you should try using an over under whip when running home on a barrel pattern. It doesn't make contact near as much at it looks. You pull it to go to the other side before I reaches. It taps and rubs and looks a lot fiercer than it is. It isn't like a stiff dressage whip that can easily be guiding. That thing is flapping in the breeze and going everywhere, but you almost never get a hit that connects well. I have a small, flopping braided nylon whip with leather at the end. When I use it, that whip pretty much slides up the side of my horse's butt and might tap the top when it flicks in the breeze. Half of why I have it is to threaten other people's horses because the people I run against have some absolute butthole horses. Besides, a barrel/pole horse wants to go forward, and they're not always going to listen when you want to stop or stand or turn or not turn. You need leverage to stop and hold them back. You need power to turn. You need spurs to keep them from leaning over smashing your knee on a barrel or smacking you in the face with a pole. The horse wants to make the pattern. They don't really care if they hit a barrel or a pole in the process. That's why you need spurs to remind them to stay off the barrels and poles and a bit that can stop them before they run into the fence. These horses aren't for pleasure riders or inexperienced people. The horse has a job it wants to do, and if you can't control it, don't ride it. One of my barrel horses has to have spurs because she can and will run over barrels and needs to be pushed out when going into them. She's not having a bad time. I do think the kicking is excessive with a lot of them and there's a lot of 'barrel racing bits' that I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, but the people at the top got there for a reason, and you can see the excitement of the horse before every run and the appreciation of the rider after.
@jtp1949 Sweet! She did a great job there.