{"id":34,"date":"2005-06-30T23:45:42","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=34"},"modified":"2005-06-30T23:45:50","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T18:45:50","slug":"just-out-od-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/just-out-od-the-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Just out od the Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I have a barrel horse I have been competing on for almost 18 months, I trained him myself and in the beginning if I didn&#8217;t wear spurs he would drop his shoulder coming into his drums, so over the next twelve months I always wore spurs in competetion, he improved greatly in his pattern and eventually would constantly be just out of the money.<\/p>\n<p>Many people would say things like &#8216;your horse is running funny&#8217; or &#8216;he&#8217;s not stretching out&#8217;. So a couple of months ago I took a gamble and took my spurs off in a competition and wow, he was so much faster, it seems he just didn&#8217;t like the spurs, I haven&#8217;t been in a competition since and not won money, but, he comes into the arena flat out and does a good pattern until we turn for home and he just seems to think the run is almost over so he gets slower the closer we get to the finishing line, I once tried a whip on him and like the spurs he went slower when I hit him.<\/p>\n<p>He has a big heart and I only compete in a simple snaffle bit. I don&#8217;t know what to do to make him sprint all the way to the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>any suggestions would be appreciated.<br \/>\nThanks<br \/>\nJacki<br \/>\n(Australia)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If you are running to a closed gate, this problem may be kind of hard to overcome since the horse is just responding correctly to his training and instincts. When running to a closed gate, you should try to teach your horse to turn the same direction each time you come to the end of the arena so that he isn&#8217;t trying to second guess the direction you might want him to go; and, if you run straight to the fence or gate, it&#8217;s harder on your horse physically. Since he runs better without the spurs and whip, I would not be trying to encourage him with those aids but instead keep your body in the forward position until you cross the finish line.<br \/>\nMartha Wright<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I have a barrel horse I have been competing on for almost 18 months, I trained him myself and in the beginning if I didn&#8217;t wear spurs he would drop his shoulder coming into his drums, so over the next twelve months I always wore spurs in competetion, he improved greatly in his pattern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fittness","category-ground-conditions","category-trainers-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}