How old is too old?

[Faster horses]

It will take 2 years for him to get 'seasoned', then he's 20...

And I haven't seen many (if any) horses that age that don't
show some signs of being stiff. If they learn to be a rope horse
at a younger age, they know how to save themselves from
being hurt when they get older.

Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it...

[dusty-Stetson16]

Yeah, ok.
Thanks alot for the input.

JD

[Justin]

i just guessing here, but in this case, i don't think that the horse needs to be ready for the NFR in a couple years. so i'm not sure that being "seasoned" is of huge impotance here. he might just want a horse to chase a few steers on once and awhile. plus if he hasn't been a rodeo horse he may be in pretty darn good shape yet.

thats my story, and i'm stickin' to it

[Faster horses]

I thought of that too, that he just wants a horse to throw a rope off of.
So, I'll concede.

I saw a great old horse used up one time because the young buck
that owned him didn't have any other horses. So he used this horse
for practice and for jackpots and rodoes. It was just too much for
him and made me so sad. The horse deserved better.
Things like that make me angry...

Mr. FH has helped a lot of people get started roping and he won't
let them rope at a live critter horseback until they can rope the dummy
and catch more times than they miss. It's all together different when
you are horseback, but by roping the dummy, at least you learn how to control your rope.

[dusty-Stetson16]

Yeah, I'm not planning to do rodeo any time soon. I just want to be able to rope. I'm quite a klutz, so it would probably be quite some time before I'd be off the dummy.

Thanks y'all.

[RobinFarmandRanch]

When i was learnin to rope, my dad used to sit on the porch, drink a beer or two, and make me rope the dummy 100 times in a row. if id miss, id have to start back at one. there were many of nights that dad finished his beer and went inside and told me not to come in until i roped it 100 times in a row. it sucked back then, but ive been to the ustrc national finals, 5 times since i started ropin.

i would still be weary about trying to rope off that old horse, he may be gentle around everything else, but you knock him in the head with the honda of the rope, he may just break in two on ya.

[dusty-Stetson16]

[Faster horses]

Believe it...100 times really builds up your arm...
RF&R wasn't the only one that had to do that...

[dusty-Stetson16]

I believe it.
But I think my first goal would be getting the dummy 1 time out of every 100! (that's a little exaggerated).

[RobinFarmandRanch]