{"id":101,"date":"2005-07-07T05:37:17","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T00:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=101"},"modified":"2005-07-07T05:37:45","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T00:37:45","slug":"just-doesnt-want-to-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/just-doesnt-want-to-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Just doesn&#8217;t want to walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I recently purchased a 13 yr TB mare. She was originally on the track, then had a few babies, and has been worked on barrels for the last 4 years. He works the barrels great, but when I&#8217;m at home just straight riding her or trail riding she doesn&#8217;t want to walk. When I want her to walk, she wants to trot, and when I want her to trot, she wants to lope. I&#8217;ve tried just breaking her back down, stop her, and stopping and backing. It&#8217;s only been a couple of weeks, but I&#8217;m getting frustrated, nothing seems to work. My dad tells me not to hold her back all the time because it might take the speed out of her. In addition, I ride with my leg a lot, but she wants to go faster instead of move away from my leg. I&#8217;ve been doing circles.<\/p>\n<p>Do I just need to be more patient?<\/p>\n<p>I would appreciate any suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n<p>Diane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Yes, patience is the key ingredient when working with a horse that has been to the track. I suggest loping circles until she wants to slow down and each time she slows down or wants to break to a trot or walk, really praise your mare and let her know she did well. When riding on the trail, each time she wants to speed up, turn her in a small circle. You will probably be turning more small circles than going forward at first, but just stay calm, keep you legs off of her and keep your hands soft.<\/p>\n<p>Martha Wright<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> recently purchased a 13 yr TB mare. She was originally on the track, then had a few babies, and has been worked on barrels for the last 4 years. He works the barrels great, but when I&#8217;m at home just straight riding her or trail riding she doesn&#8217;t want to walk. When I want her to walk, she wants to trot, and when I want her to trot,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses-age","category-trainers-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}