8-10-12

This drill instills snappy turns and turns with finesse. It gets your horse working in four wheel drive and with control and power. How: Walk a regular turn on a barrel. Take your horse out and away to about 14 ft and pick up a lope on your way out there. Challenge...

3 Way Circles

This drill practices and tests your horses’ maneuverability. You want to be able to have control over all his body parts at any given time and this will give you an idea of how its going. How: Make a perfect circle with three different body positions. Make the...

Circle Tires

This is a great test to see if your horse is ready to head to the barrel pattern.  If your horse can’t complete this drill correctly at a given speed, it won’t be able to turn the barrel correctly at that speed.  This is also a great drill for strengthening a...

Perfect Circle

The ability to walk, trot and lope a perfect circle is the corner stone of your barrel racing training and maintaining program (and is used in many of our drills).   It is the basis of teaching your horse to keep his hip in and drive.  It teaches them to stay soft in...

Four Corners In

Doing the Four Corners drill from the inside is another drill you can do while you have your four barrels in a square set up. Like four corners out it is good for strengthening the hind end and keeping a horse in the correct lead with proper, correct turns.  Keeps...