Starting Age - Craig Carr

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On today's program, Craig Carr from Colorado. So Craig, when do you start your horses? 

 

"Usually get mine going when they're late two-year-olds and ride them some as they're three. I don't really have deadlines on my horses.

 

We don't really have any age limits in this Rocky Mountain deal. We have a rookie class, a cowboy class. Cowboy class is like a $500 limited winnings, and then you'll go to a Snafflebit-Hackamore class, and there's no age limit on how old that horse will be, because some of these cowboys might have an eight, nine-year-old Hackamore horse, a horse that might not have got started until he's five, six years old.

 

I think part of the longevity in these horses is we ride them, we might do some ranch work on them, but we're not pounding them. They're not really being called on hard until they're about five years old. Instead, so many of these three-year-olds and four-year-olds are pretty much burnt up in the show world by the time they're five or six."

 

It's always great to hear from Craig Carr. 

 

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