29/10/2023
Hey you...
Yes I'm talking to you, the person scrolling through adds for green, un-started, cheap or free horses. If your ability and time commitment doesn't match what your horse needs your doing the horse an injustice. And that's not fair on the horse.
Here's what you need to know:
●You aren't going to "learn together" you don't send your kid to school, to learn from it's peers.
●Time commitment is a major contributor to how your horse is at the end of the week, if you give your young horse a week off, expect it to remember half of what you taught it the last week it was in training
●Your horses foundation, is the most important thing it will ever need to know. If you think your ready to progress past it, your probably not.
●Your horse was happy, in the paddock eating grass, so if you disrupted it's life, you better have the tools to help it through and make it feel safe around you
●Everytime you change the "program" on your horse, you add confusion to what your horse thinks it should know. If your seeking help, find someone you want to learn from, to benefit your horse
●If your horses foundation isn't 100% you have no place at a clinic that isn't based solely on horse foundations.
●Learning how to connect with a horse and become a dependable leader is the most important thing you will ever learn.
●It's your responsibility to help your horse through difficult situations to only have beneficial experiencesto its development, You put it there.
All of these things take so much time, knowledge and expirence. How your young horse is, is a reflection of the experiences it has had. It's naive to think that everything will be OK, and you will develop with the horse. Set your budget higher, save a little longer, and find your self a horse that can teach you. Then hold onto it, because the price you pay for a well trained reliable horse, doesn't reflect the time, knowledge, or effort it takes to get them to there.
