{"id":97,"date":"2005-07-07T05:08:19","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T00:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=97"},"modified":"2005-07-07T05:08:45","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T00:08:45","slug":"apha-gelding-that-is-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/apha-gelding-that-is-2\/","title":{"rendered":"APHA gelding that is 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hi, my name is Randi. I have an APHA gelding that is 2 turning 3 next May. I have a horse show in September and I was wondering if it was too early to take my horse and walk\/trot the barrels. If this is to early would you be able to tell me when I should start training him. Thanks so much for your time.<br \/>\nRandi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We generally do not start a horse on the barrels until they are 3 yrs. old. They are much more physically mature as a 3 yr old and better able to withstand the stress that turning puts on their immature bone structure. I would just ride my horse in the pasture and on the trails and get a good basic foundation on him as a two yr old.<\/p>\n<p>Martha Wright<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my name is Randi. I have an APHA gelding that is 2 turning 3 next May. I have a horse show in September and I was wondering if it was too early to take my horse and walk\/trot the barrels. If this is to early would you be able to tell me when I should start training him. Thanks so much for your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses-age","category-horses-education","category-trainers-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}