{"id":73,"date":"2005-07-01T21:28:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T16:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=73"},"modified":"2005-07-01T21:29:17","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T16:29:17","slug":"is-a-5-year-old-appaloosa-good-for-barrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/is-a-5-year-old-appaloosa-good-for-barrels\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a 5 year old Appaloosa good for barrels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hi:<br \/>\nI have a 5 year old Appaloosa. We got her when she was 4 years old and had to break her ourselves. I want to enter her in barrels in the rodeo. Do you think that she would be a good horse for that, and if so, what is the best way to start teaching her?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If your horse is athletic and has a willing attitude then there is no reason that she shouldn&#8217;t make a nice barrel horse. When you start teaching her the pattern, just start out slowly and only increase your speed when you and your horse are both comfortable doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Martha Wright<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a 5 year old Appaloosa. We got her when she was 4 years old and had to break her ourselves. I want to enter her in barrels in the rodeo. Do you think that she would be a good horse for that, and if so, what is the best way to start teaching her?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-trainers-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}