One Time Colt Starting

02/08/2025

Hi everyone

My name is Amanda and I am the Manager for One Time C**t Starting.

I will to be assisting Murray with inquiries, scheduling, booking, communication with clients, as well as arranging payments and pickups. This will allow Murray to focus on what he does best and that’s working with your horses.

Murray will still interact with owners and work one on one with owners as that is an important part of the training process. He will also go over the training plan and goals at time of drop off with all owners.

I’m here to help Murray on the business management side so his time can focus fully on the horses.

I can’t wait to help you and your horse reach your training goals.

Amanda
One Time C**t Starting Manager

02/08/2025

Your horse needs a 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡, not just a trainer.

There’s 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 to horsemanship than just teaching cues and movements.

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 involves getting a horse to do something 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲—teaching movements, refining responses, and conditioning their body.

𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 is all about building 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟. It’s about exhibiting leadership and communication to build confidence, trust and understanding.

When a horse faces an unfamiliar situation, they will feel insecure. They’ll look to you for reassurance. That’s where 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠—not just training—makes all the difference.

It’s not just about executing the right steps.
It’s about giving them the confidence to 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 through pressure, not just react to it.

A great trainer can make a horse capable.
A great coach makes them 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭.

01/23/2025

Will always re share and encourage people to read these thoughts

01/22/2025

New manager!
New location!
New rates!
Not exactly sure when im taking for sure but it'll be mid April
Cattle drives and brandings are still in may all lined up.
Very excited for this year. Every year is a blessing working horses.
Last year was a record year for us and I'm hoping to have another record year and meet many more new clients! Thank you to eveyone that has supported for over these past 10+ years

11/22/2024

THE REAL DEFINITION OF HUMILITY

Society will try to convince you that "humility" is about living small...

Thinking small...

Acting small...
..and concealing your wins to avoid hurting someone else's feelings.

Bu****it.

This is a false interpretation of humility that's been weaponized to keep you from going out and taking massive action to become who the f**k you were meant to become.

Understand that real humility has nothing to do with sacrificing your potential to live within the boundaries and limitations of the people around you.

Real humility is knowing that no matter how great you become...

You will always have more to learn and improve on.

Real humility is knowing that no matter how many people you beat...

You will never be "better" than anybody else.

Real humility is knowing that the results you've produced are a reflection of the actions you've taken…

Not because you have some special talent or skill that nobody else has.

How other people choose to react to your wins and success is irrelevant.

Real humility is knowing that other people are just as good as you if not better.

They just haven’t taken action.

You have.

You do.

Every day.

Like your life depends on it.

Because it does.

Learn what it actually means to be humble...

Then go out and build the biggest, most badass life you possibly can.

~Andy Frisella~

11/18/2024

I cannot stress this enough!

You cannot break a horse in thirty days!

You cannot expect your horse trainers to take a barely halter broke c**t, and I don’t care if their 2,3,4,5,6….to have a broke horse in thirty days.

It’s a start.

Those horses need to get halter broke, foot broke, desensitized to life so we as horses trainers can send them home with homework and enough self respect, manners and to know how they can work with their people.…and properly. Just because you can doesn’t mean it’s necessary. What is there to prove?

I have c**ts I can ride ba****ck and walk over tarps, lope circles on in 30 days but I also got c**ts that I’m just starting to ride after 30 days. Not because I’ve spent more or less time with one or the other. It’s the horse I’m listening to.

Me as a c**t starter, my highest priority is working at the horse’s comfortability, mentally,emotionally and physically. I will not push a horse to a point I creat holes in a way im setting them up for potential failure ir to creat more work for the next trainer.

Let your c**t starters, horse trainers, coaches take their time at a slow but progressing pace to not blow your horse up just because you think Jo blow got it done in a shorter time frame I should do the same or better.

Once you find a trusted trainer who will put all their sweat,blood,tears and energy into you and your equine best friend…that you trust;
Let us do our job.
You sent the horse out for a reason.

Patience and time!

11/14/2024

11/10/2024

This is huge to read

HORSES IN TRAINING…

You pay that hefty training bill for the month.

You look to have you horse in training as little as possible so it doesn’t break the bank.

You’re disappointed when after 30 days or 60 days or 90 days, there’s still more work to be done or the goal hasn’t been met. Worse yet, it looks good, you take the horse home and it unravels piece by piece. All that money “wasted”.

When you pay a trainer, that money isn’t paying for a result, it’s paying for someone’s skilled effort.

At least for me, when someone gets unhappy that their horse “isn’t fixed yet”, or comes “untrained” after it’s been home a while, makes the task of training horses for other people, discouraging. Discouraging because the efforts are being made, usually my best efforts that are filled with compassion, determination and lots of ruminating on how to fix complex issues a horse may have. Their disappointment becomes my failure basically. I know that’s not an actual truth but it’s never rewarding when someone is disappointed due to their own expectations.

Training a horse is NOT like being a mechanic on a car. Its not a tune up, it’s not the simple replacement of a part. It’s an animal with thoughts, feelings, emotions, habits, talents, etc. You don’t just program them, tune them up or replace a faulty part and send it back good as new.

You arent paying for results to happen within your timeline, you are paying for the time it takes to reach a desired result. The more complicated the project, the bigger the investment. The more baggage a horse has, the more effort it takes to unravel the mess. The bigger the goal, the greater the investment.

People send their horses to certain trainers because they want the outcome that trainer proves they can achieve. The problem is, people want that result in the shortest time frame possible because time, again, is money. It takes the time it takes to create the vision and time costs money. People who have a diy mentality, value the effort so much more when they themselves invest their own energy into a horse rather than just paying for it. I really feel that those who do it themselves, come to appreciate the efforts it takes far more than those who sign the check.

Be nice to your trainers, they work hard for you and your horse!

Written by: katy Negranti
Katy Negranti Performance Horsemanship

11/10/2024

As another season comes to a close and a much needed rest is coming for me, I wanted to say thank you to everyone this year that brought me horses and stood by me.

Over 10 years now of training on my own and the 2 years before that learning and working under Sid Wager and over 600 horses workes to date. It has been an incredible learning journey and I'm excited to see what comes in 2025.

Some changes will be coming next year
I won't be taking I'm full size drafts to halter break. And will be little more picky who I bring in.

Price will be $1200 each month.

Will be better setup for halter breaking yearlings etc tho next year. Will be doing some adjusting to the intake pen.

Lessons and showing the horse throughout the month is included in the training program.

If a horse goes home and the owner still can't handle it correctly or get the respect they are looking for i will do my best to work with horse and owner to get to that point.

Horses get many outside miles and usually are able to be exposed at least a little to cattle.

Not all horses get to make it to the pasture or cattle drives sortings etc, but I do try to take as many as I can.

Horses over the age of 5 that are complete starts will be a extra charge as well.

I should be starting to take horses in depending on the ground and weather by mid April so the first set of horses will be used in May for cattle work

Have an amazing winter and will see eveyone in the spring!

10/29/2024

Her ability to stop so hard with body position and a loud WOAH is very cool

10/29/2024

This is a must watch
Horses act like toddlers
And some people take tiny things and blooooow them way out of context 🙄

10/29/2024

🙌

10/28/2024

Getting much softer on her back up and stop

10/28/2024

Trying to upload more videos. Might have to wait to get onto wifi again
Shes turning into a very calm mare now