My Passion Barrel Racing and Pole Pending                              

              In my opinion, a horse is the animal to have. 1100 pounds of raw muscle, power, grace, and sweat, It isn't considered failing off of your horse. It's considered failing when you don't get up and try again that's when you can tell if someone should be up on the back of a 5 foot tall studley beast. the latest show that i had gone to was a galloway's fall cash classic and we were doing great got the first 2 barrels ok then the third barrel was coming up, my horses favorite barrel because he gets to bolt the whole way home but, this time he was digging to hard with his back legs and not really going with the front ones and all 4 legs went out from under him and he landed on top of me. the great past was everyone kept asking are you sure you want to go back in the ring and i obviously said yes, and in doing that i placed 5 in pole bending and 3 in keyhole. 

              In barrel racing there are certain breeds that you should and should not use.  the breeds you should use are, Appaloosa'a, Paints and Quater Horses,all these breeds are smart, versatile, they have natural muscle, easy to train and they are all heavy built to be able to handle the rigging and pounding on their joints when they're running in deep. i prefer the paint myself because they do not have such a lengthy body and it is a whole lot easier to turn them on their front end and not have to worry about their back end is going.  But my appy that i have now sold had a very long body and it was harder to deal with because he would over turn the barrel and try to go around it again, also for pole bending he would knock every pole with his but if you didint bring him round at the right time.