You know what, I think the barrel racers that are on a more professional level do the slow work. When my next door neighbor is working her barrel horses, it's always walk/trot/lope stuff. I've never seen her go faster than an easy lope when she's exercising her horses. When I was on the high school rodeo team, it was always pedal to the metal. We were just dumb kids.
Every now and then when I'm talking to her, she'll mention a friend named Josey.
Yeah, I wish she would have stressed more that she never makes runs at home, and never runs more then twice in a day. Alot of people around here need to hear that:)
Becky