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<blockquote data-quote="Keren" data-source="post: 854984" data-attributes="member: 3195"><p>Its an accepted practice here, even in handlers classes, that if your animal wants to rush then you bring the show stick in front of its nose, that will usually slow them down and if not a LITTLE tap on the nose will. Sounds like that girl was getting carried away though and just taking out her frustration on the calf, which will never help the situation. Regarding showmanship choices, in my experience here there are two types of judges. One likes to see a push button animal which doesn't put a foot wrong. The other will place a handler up who has a fractious animal PROVIDED THEY GET THE ANIMAL SETTLED AND SHOW IT PROPERLY. For example, I was given champion one year with a little steer who took off running four or five times during the class - every time the loudspeaker crackled. I did not let him go, I just pulled him back into place and got him standing quietly with feet in the correct place. Now, its a very different story if the handler never gets the animal under control, but to my mind if I handler can take a towey animal out there and settle it enough to show it off to the best of its ability, that shows more skill than the handler with the push button animal. One thing judges do here (not sure if its done over there also) is to swap handlers. So the handler with the push button calf gets the difficult animal for a few laps and vice versa. It shows your ability to handle an unfamiliar animal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keren, post: 854984, member: 3195"] Its an accepted practice here, even in handlers classes, that if your animal wants to rush then you bring the show stick in front of its nose, that will usually slow them down and if not a LITTLE tap on the nose will. Sounds like that girl was getting carried away though and just taking out her frustration on the calf, which will never help the situation. Regarding showmanship choices, in my experience here there are two types of judges. One likes to see a push button animal which doesn't put a foot wrong. The other will place a handler up who has a fractious animal PROVIDED THEY GET THE ANIMAL SETTLED AND SHOW IT PROPERLY. For example, I was given champion one year with a little steer who took off running four or five times during the class - every time the loudspeaker crackled. I did not let him go, I just pulled him back into place and got him standing quietly with feet in the correct place. Now, its a very different story if the handler never gets the animal under control, but to my mind if I handler can take a towey animal out there and settle it enough to show it off to the best of its ability, that shows more skill than the handler with the push button animal. One thing judges do here (not sure if its done over there also) is to swap handlers. So the handler with the push button calf gets the difficult animal for a few laps and vice versa. It shows your ability to handle an unfamiliar animal. [/QUOTE]
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