Does he work better in bigger arenas?
It’s funny you say that. I had a horse before him named Dragon who’s about a 15-hand Paint. I also won nationals and eastern on him. Joker is actually a better all-around horse than Dragon was. There are some smaller pens that Dragon should have excelled in and Joker is actually better in those pens than Dragon. Joker is better all-around horse than smaller horses. The patterns that have us running into the wall at an angle, he has problems with those. He doesn’t want to run into the smaller corners. But other than that, he’s rock solid. Q: How much effort does it take to acclimate a horse to gun fire? A: Learning the shooting part comes pretty easily. I ride them and they start trusting me. When I do train a horse to gunfire, I consider the horse and not me. When I ride a horse into the arena for the first time, I couldn’t care if I hit one balloon or all of them. I let the horse adapt to the gunfire, the balloons disappearing and the smoke. All my horses seem to have taken to it pret
