{"id":16,"date":"2005-06-30T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=16"},"modified":"2005-06-30T20:04:21","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T15:04:21","slug":"gettin-6-yr-old-horse-in-top-competitive-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/gettin-6-yr-old-horse-in-top-competitive-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Gettin 6 yr. Old Horse in Top Competitive Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Martha<br \/>\nI have been involved rodeo pretty much my entire life, but always been a roper. I now have a barrel horse and it seems that he needs to be in much better shape than my break-a-way\/goat tying horse ever needed to be in. I also just move to Terrell, TX just outside of Dallas. Could you give me some advice on how I should get my 6 yr. old horse in top competitive condition, as well as how to exercise in the wonderful heat of Texas while maintaining a day job.<br \/>\nSincerely<br \/>\nTeri<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I like for my competition horses to be able to go about 4-6 miles at a long trot and lope and then do some additional walking. We try to ride at least 4 days Mon- Fri and have one turnout day if we are hauling on Saturday and Sunday both. As far as exercising in the heat, I suggest that you try to ride either early morning or very late at night to avoid heat stress.<br \/>\nMartha Wright<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been involved rodeo pretty much my entire life, but always been a roper. I now have a barrel horse and it seems that he needs to be in much better shape than my break-a-way\/goat tying horse <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fittness","category-trainers-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","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=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}