Training

Barrel Racing Tips for Horses That Shoulder with Fallon Taylor

February 15, 2011

Fallon Taylor offers several great free barrel racing videos with tips on YouTube. Here is one of her helpful videos that talks about how to deal with a barrel horse that has a tendency to shoulder the barrels. In the video she focuses on the second barrel. The second barrel is the hardest turn because [...]

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Look at Yourself First

February 4, 2011

Sometimes when things go wrong with our horses we are quick to point the finger. “My horse keeps running on the wrong side of the barrel, My horse keeps hitting the barrel or My horse won’t do this, my horse won’t do that”. Horse aren’t that smart, they don’t just run into things for no [...]

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Ride With Purpose

December 9, 2010

When you ride, ride with purpose. While you head out to catch your horse, while you are tacking up, think about your plan for the ride. In order to accomplish goals, you need a plan and parts of that plan are being executed with every ride. You don’t want to miss an opportunity to get [...]

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Twice Around Barrel Racing Exercise

September 14, 2010

Here is a great barrel racing drill or exercise to remind your horse to stay locked on a turn and not to leave it too soon. What you will do is circle the barrel twice (and sometimes more if necessary to get it right) before moving on to the next barrel.   Remember to properly prepare [...]

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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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