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jaxx123 (8/18/2009)
Purcocious (sp? sorry): I know it isnt their usual direction on the track, I just wanted to make the point to say it. "The one direction" he preferred that I was talking about in the previous post was the right, so I figured it was worth mentioning. Not entirely sure what you're trying to say . . . the direction he's having trouble going is to the right. Its actually against the track rules to do anything other than walk/trot along the outside rail going clockwise. So, as I said, its incredibly rare to find an OTTB that is accustom to being worked to the right.
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Purcocious (sp? sorry): I know it isnt their usual direction on the track, I just wanted to make the point to say it. "The one direction" he preferred that I was talking about in the previous post was the right, so I figured it was worth mentioning. Not entirely sure what you're trying to say . . . the direction he's having trouble going is to the right. Its actually against the track rules to do anything other than walk/trot along the outside rail going clockwise. So, as I said, its incredibly rare to find an OTTB that is accustom to being worked to the right. Im just going to try to clarify what I wrote: In my original post I said that my horse "was fine in the one direction, but in the other he would turn and go in the other." What I meant was that in that post, the direction he was fine on was the right. So I was just saying it was worth mentioning since when my horse came off the track, he preferred the right over the left. Sorry for the confusion
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| Ah, ok. Was he foreign raced at all? In Europe its the opposite of the U.S. Otherwise, he's just backwards lol. 98% of the time, a U.S. based OTTB will prefer the left, as they are always worked/raced to the left. There are always going be exceptions, but they are only worked one direction, soooo it makes for a lot of left hooved horses.
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I have his racing records and they say he only raced in the U.S. I guess he's just in that 2% of freaks then... 
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[quote]jaxx123 (8/18/2009)
Purcocious (sp? sorry): I know it isnt their usual direction on the track, I just wanted to make the point to say it. "The one direction" he preferred that I was talking about in the previous post was the right, so I figured it was worth mentioning.
Not entirely sure what you're trying to say . . . the direction he's having trouble going is to the right.
Its actually against the track rules to do anything other than walk/trot along the outside rail going clockwise. So, as I said, its incredibly rare to find an OTTB that is accustom to being worked to the right.[/quote]
Hmm, that must be at some tracks. I frequently go to Mountaineer Racetrack, and the horses are cantered to the right. They do everything except gallop to the right, on or near the rail. The only thing they do to the left is gallop and breeze. Different tracks must have different rules, I guess.
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| My off the track arab had this problem for a while. While lunging I would use a whip, but one with out a long tassel/string/(what is that thing called? I feel really dumb.) and used it only as an extention of my arm (that's how I always use the lunge whip, but it's especially important in this situation.). I would walk him on the line to the right in a small circle, small enough that if he turned around, I could bar his way with the whip. When he walked nicely to the right I would give him more line and ask for the trot and canter. Another thing I learned was this- while your horse has this problem, start lunge work tracking right and then work to the left. I found if Halo started on the left, the spinning was much worse once we switched to the right.
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jaxx123 (8/18/2009)
Purcocious (sp? sorry): I know it isnt their usual direction on the track, I just wanted to make the point to say it. "The one direction" he preferred that I was talking about in the previous post was the right, so I figured it was worth mentioning.
Not entirely sure what you're trying to say . . . the direction he's having trouble going is to the right.
Its actually against the track rules to do anything other than walk/trot along the outside rail going clockwise. So, as I said, its incredibly rare to find an OTTB that is accustom to being worked to the right.
Hmm, that must be at some tracks. I frequently go to Mountaineer Racetrack, and the horses are cantered to the right. They do everything except gallop to the right, on or near the rail. The only thing they do to the left is gallop and breeze. Different tracks must have different rules, I guess. They consider a slow canter a jog at the track. Don't know why, just their lingo I guess.
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^^^Hm, never heard that before! That's kind of cool.
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^^^Hm, never heard that before! That's kind of cool. Yeah, I think most of the time the horse is technically suppose to be jogging/trotting, but they end up getting a little too quick, but the work is still a 'jog'. I think different tracks do have different rules. At Thistledown I was given the rundown on how it was done since I was suppose to ride there this summer before Magna went bankrupt. Basically, you jogged half-way down the stretch, turned to face the infield, then turned and galloped off to the left. If you were just jogging, you could continue to the right.
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~~UPDATE!!!~~
We walk to the right. And we even trotted a lap and a half to the right! I then stopped him to tell him he was a good boy before he turned by himself.
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