Correcting bad habits is a long road that takes a lot of patience. Dakota Kirchenschlager and wife Emily own this talented young mare, but she came from a show-barn background and needs work in the team roping. Kirchenschlager works on gaining control, keeping her calm in the box and building the individual parts of the run, all with the back of the roping box flipped up to work on her scoring.
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Practice Session: 5-Year-Old Dual Sma...
Dakota Kirchenschlager practices every day for what each individual horse needs. In this session, Kirchenschlager heads and heels on a 5-year-old futurity horse, sometimes breakawaying, sometimes circling the steer and sometimes making runs to manage the horse throughout the practice.
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Practice Session: 5-Year-Old Hickory ...
Dakota Kirchenschlager uses jerseys and a breakaway hondo to gain control and confidence on a 5-year-old gelding that’s trying to get too close behind the steer. The horse has been shown for a year, and Kirchenschlager is using this session to continue to fine tune and build confidence in the horse.
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Practice Session: 4-Year-Old Ex-Reine...
This 4-year-old gelding named Gotta Hit It Big came out of a reining program, and in this practice session Dakota Kirchenschlager starts with breakawaying before he moves to heading steers on the green head horse prospect. With a regular head rope, Kirchenschlager works on teaching the horse he c...
