![]() ![]() While barrel racing you will probably experience a lot more pain than expected. Barrel racing is dangerous and it takes a certain kind of person to be able to handle the pain that comes along with the sport. You really have to put a lot of time and dedication into the sport and your horse if you’re hoping to compete and win.Īre you still not convinced barrel racing is tough? You might just think it’s some silly sport where girls run around in circles as fast as they can, but let me tell you, it’s so much more than that. If your wanting to train your own horse into a barrel horse then you should expect it taking years till your actually ready to compete. This sport takes a lot of patience and time especially when your horse doesn’t want to listen to you. Barrel racers focus on making sure they either don’t take the turn too wide or two tight causing a barrel to be knocked over. This means that if you can a 15.46 barrel time but knocked over two barrels, your final time would be a 25.46 basically meaning you wouldn’t place. The deductions in barrel racing consist of adding 5 seconds when knocking over each barrel. #Barrel racing abuse how toMost barrel racers spend years perfecting the skills they learn so that they know how to correctly run the barrel pattern without knocking over a barrel. With that said, dedication to the sport and your horse is crucial. Speed is a large part of barrel racing and it takes a lot of guts to run that fast on a horse.īarrel racing is not just something you can master in a few months it takes years to learn the correct skills in order to win. When beginning barrel racing, its best to just start off walking the pattern and then eventually work your way up to a lope before running. #Barrel racing abuse fullIt isn’t smart as a beginner to just hop on a horse and try the pattern full speed on your first try because you will either hurt yourself or the horse. Running at such fast speeds on a horse takes a lot of practice especially when you have to slow down just enough to make a turn around the barrel and then pick back up that same speed as before. I don’t know if you know this or not, but running full speed on a large animal such as a horse is extremely terrifying and if you don’t hold on, you’ll end up on the ground. ![]() 15 and 18 seconds is not a lot of time meaning you have to run full speed on your horse to make that time crunch. A good time on a small pattern is around 15 seconds and on a big pattern is around 18 seconds. It’s my job to show you that to be a barrel racer, it’s all about the bond and the trust you have with your horse because without that, you will not have a successful barrel racing career and you or your horse can get hurt.įor the people who don’t know what barrel racing is, it’s a timed rodeo event where you and your horse run a cloverleaf pattern around three barrels in a triangular arrangement. To be a barrel racer it takes agility, guts, trust, strength, and a lot of patience. ![]() If a person is cruel enough to hurt another, they will not change their ways (usually)Īnyways, I'm going to say cya now because I think I'm just rabling on now.Barrel racing seems pretty easy right? Little does everyone know, barrel racing is fast paced, requires dedication, and is extremely dangerous. There will always be good and bad, and getting into an argument about it will not solve it. In everything in life, there will always be people who abuse others, animal or human. If they don't want to do something, they won't. In Western riding, some people will star kick their horses. It only become dangerous when someone picks it up. A knife sitting in a drawer is not dangerous. They become bad when someone with bad intentions uses it. In English riding, some people use crops. In anything, people always do the wrong thing. It doesn't matter what riding style you do. I think he would be so so very happy doing either of those events, or even doing a so called 'abusive' event. ![]() They don't have to do dressage or cutting, but they enjoy it. ![]()
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