Hi,
New to site. But am tring to find some stuff for a young lady that wants to barrel race real bad. Can anyone give me a web site that gives the measurements for the different patterns. Got the measurments for Barrels. Need Keyhole, poles and kegs measurments. Please any help would really be apperciated. Thanks in advance. Redhawk

You know, I've never seen one myself.  I think we should post that stuff here!  Ok, I'm on a mission to find all the answers to these different patterns, races, games, etc. and make a nice little database for them here!  If anybody knows, post the answers here and I'll get started on the page!

Oh, and btw, welcome to the forum Redhawk!!!

Thanks tons Ramsey!! I thought there was a web page that did this, but I've been every where and don't see it. We have an arena that we can pratice in. Kinda been cheatin cuz the barrels are still set from last show, but that's the only thing. I think keyhole has a 4 foot opening and 8 foot circle but just can't remember. Been out of this stuff for a long while now, kinda rusty! Although I put the old boy back on the barrels today and it was like watching a light go on! It was great.

Kegs and poles are both standard, 21 feet from timer line to the 1st and 21 feet between all poles.  Barrels really don't have a set pattern unless you have a huge arena, standard is minimum 30 feet from timer line to 1st and 2nd and then 1st and 2nd must be a minimum of 30 feet from fence and the 3rd is a minimum of 45 feet from the fence.  You are supposed to set barrels according to arena size.  Keyhole should be able to be found on the appalossa rule book, I think they still run it.  Opening is about 4 or 8 feet and I think it used to be a 15 or so diameter but it has been ages since anyone around here ran those patterns.  I will look all this up and post it for you later.