How To Make Success As A Horse Trainer

[casportpony]

Hey, if you're small enough you should emphasize your ability to work with ponies! Here there is a huge demand for adult trainers small enough to train ponies.

 

[N Sully]

I wish you well and hope you succeed. I send my horses out for training. They are trained in cutting. Things I go by are success of the trainer at a high level, and his facilities. How he gets the results are so important too. Experience and clients will help you achieve your goals. There is a lot you have to know and keep learning to compete in the horse world and then you have the business side that can also be just as challenging. I wish you well and hope you are successful!

 

[Welshies]

Congrats on the bookings? Can you finish an English horse?
If I were going to send a horse off for English or Western training I would want to know that the trainer was capable of teaching smooth transitions between all gaits and the halt (halt to canter, canter to halt, canter to trot, canter to walk, etc), counter canter, simple changes, flying changes, leg yield, shoulder in, haunches in, turn on the forehand, turn on the haunches, and rein back.

I can teach those. The same principles apply to western horses as well as english horses- particularly when you train gymkhana and jumping horses.
The only difference is the saddle- any well-trained horse should know all those things.

 

[res]

I can teach those. The same principles apply to western horses as well as english horses- particularly when you train gymkhana and jumping horses.
The only difference is the saddle- any well-trained horse should know all those things.

There is a lot more to Western vs. English than just a "difference in the saddle".

 

[Welshies]

There is a lot more to Western vs. English than just a "difference in the saddle".

I know. I'm saying the principles of training and the basics are the same.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I know. I'm saying the principles of training and the basics are the same.

The basics aren't the same in English and western. English requires a collected horse and western a more relaxed horse. Lots, lots of differences.

 

[casportpony]

Do any of you enjoy watching upper level dressage?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Do any of you enjoy watching upper level dressage?

I like watching all the events during the Olympics. They don't generally run horse events on TV, and there aren't many shows around here to go see.

 

[casportpony]

I like watching all the events during the Olympics. They don't generally run horse events on TV, and there aren't many shows around here to go see.

oCverage on Direct TV was pretty good, so got to see lots of all the events.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

oCverage on Direct TV was pretty good, so got to see lots of all the events.

What channel? Maybe I don't get them, though I hardly ever look at the sports stations.