Pursuing Barrel Racing!

That's awesome. Are you going to be doing it with Thunder or do you have a maybe.......faster........horse to work with? LOL. I love stangs but they aren't exactly the most fleet of foot.

That's great. I don't have any tips cause I don't run barrels but I wish you luck. There is no doubt in my mind that you will be successful.

MacabreMikolaj said:

But I agree, it's a good method IF you've spent time at home developing a good reining type horse. Once you have that foundation, showing them a pattern shouldn't matter, because they're fine tuned to listen to your aids.

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What's funny about this? My Dad used to show AQHA from the 70s to the early 90s. He was at the world show or whatever it is one year and they asked if he had a horse that could show in the barrels just to fill up a class. Apparently, the bigger the class, the more points are awarded or something. I am not sure how the whole show thing works. Anyway, he agreed and entered a little mare named Showboy's Graydoll that he was showing in the junior reining and team roping. In a class of 20 at the world show, he took 3rd on a horse that had never run the pattern in her life. IMHO, that's what a person should aim for, a horse that you can use for trails or working cattle one day and then compete on and win the next day.