Training

Know when your horse is ready to speed up

July 24, 2010

Many barrel racers often struggle with knowing when to ask their barrel horses in training for an increase in speed. Joyce Loomis-Kernek is a very experienced barrel racer and coach to many. Her website offers many articles and tips to help you become a better barrel racer. You can check out the tips archive here. [...]

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Barrel Horse Training Basics with Kristen Weaver Brown

April 27, 2010

In this video Kristen Weaver-Brown talks about what she looks for in a horse before she goes to the pattern. She states she finds that many of the horses she gets in for training don’t have the basics required to start barrel racing. We get many questions here at Free Barrel Racing Tips and on [...]

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Dena Kirkpatrick and Barrel Position

March 15, 2010

We had great feedback on our Facebook page when we posted some videos with Dena about bits for barrel racing. Now Dena has her very own channel on YouTube! I think this video on positioning your horse around the barrel for a turn is great. It is a caption from her new video “Dena’s One [...]

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How to get your alley sour barrel horse into the arena

February 21, 2010

I am often asked what a person should do to get their “hard to get in the arena” horse into the arena. Recently, I attended a barrel race as a spectator. This doesn’t happen often but it certainly offered an opportunity to learn. It was one of those “how not to do it” learning experiences [...]

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Sherry Cervi shows us some drills

December 30, 2009

Sherry Cervi had an awesome NFR this year breaking the NFR barrel racing earnings record. We are happy to be able to share a couple more videos of her that we were able to locate. In this first video she is working Harley. At first she shows us how to take a little go out [...]

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Speed Control Tips for Barrel Racing

December 1, 2009

Here is a video with Holly from Expert Villiage She demonstrates at a slow speed how we train for speed control. Speed control is important in training young horses and in your finished horses. Holly just walks and trots in this video but it can be taken to the next level when you would lope [...]

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Sherry Cervi on training a sensitive, higher energy horse

October 9, 2009

Here are a series of 4 videos where Sherry shares some of the exercises she uses on her 8 year old horse Chappi. (if you are reading this on facebook you’ll have to go to www.freebarrelracingtips.com to see the video series) She says Chappi is a hotter type horse than she usually rides. He doesn’t [...]

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Counter Arcing for Barrel Racing training

September 3, 2009

Counter arcing is method of gaining control of your barrel horses hips and shoulders. Its keeps them soft and maneuverable if done correctly. This barrel racing tips video from expert village give a nice explanation and demonstration of how to do this correctly. If you have a horse that is shouldering a barrel or [...]

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Same direction barrels drill

August 12, 2009

Here is a good drill for getting your horse to listen to you for correcting a problem or for getting them to key into a barrel and really hunt it. You can do it like the Expert Village rider Holly does or you can do it a little looser. I will often do this making [...]

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