How to Train Your Horse to Do Barrels

So now that you know how to do all the gaits with your horse, you can start doing the different patterns with her. To train your horse to do barrels, start with three barrels that are placed 60 feet apart. Start at a walk and go around the barrels in a three leaf clover. After that do it at at trot for a week then repeat at a canter for a couple of weeks. Finally you are ready to do it at a gallop. That is how I taught Fortune to do the barrel pattern. She was an English/Western horse that hadn't done speed till I worked with her. After I trained her right, we were getting some good times in the show ring. Have fun barrel racing with your horse!

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