BH Equine Services

03/27/2025

Prego mare updates!! All 3 in 1 video 🥰

03/27/2025

Grandpa looking good with the sun behind him 🥰

03/26/2025

Facts 💯 I stick to my own lane of what works for me and my program!

I've sure been seeing (and hearing) a lot of bickering lately among horse professionals. Moaning about how one method is wrong, and the next method is right. Makes my head ache to listen to it actually, so I strive to tune it out and keep doing my own thing. I hold a hard and fast rule that I ride and train by that makes things easier for me;

When I have a horse sent to me that has been ridden before, I don't play into the worst case scenario right away. I allow the horse to show me where he's at and what he knows. You see, I don't immediately assume I am a better horseman or a more knowledgeable trainer than the last person who rode that horse. I don't jump to the conclusion that they did a bad job just because the new horse doesn't act like horses do who are accustomed to my everyday program. Like the old saying goes, there are a thousand ways to skin a cat...well, there are at least that many ways to train a horse.

I hear a lot of disparaging remarks dismissing other trainers work from horse people who should know better. I hear chatter about restarts and holes in the foundation, and how one c**t was cowboyed while another was snuck around. It makes me shake my head.

At times I feel that the worker bees in the hive of the horse industry these days need to get hungry. They need to starve a little and figure out just what they'd be willing to throw their leg over in the name of putting food on the table. Stop staring with a judgemental eye over the round pen fence at the other guy, and simply concentrate on riding the horses in your string.

When I started riding for a living, I just wanted to get on as many horses as I could. First of all that is how I fed myself, second of all, that is how I got educated. I learned fairly quickly that I didn't know everything, and it's the one lesson that has stuck through all these years. So dam straight, these shiney faced, well fed horse trainers who have never rode what they had to, in order to get to the point in their career where they get to ride what they want to, arrogantly dismissing the thirty, or sixty, or ninety days of work put into a c**t before it ends up in their supposedly capable hands, annoys the heck out of me!

I've heard so called horsemen whine that one was hobble broke, and whine because it wasn't hobble broke. Mutter because they'd been started in a snaffle bit, or never bitted, only ridden in a halter. Bitch because they'd been pushed into a lope on the first ride, or bitch because they hadn't. Ridden in the arena and pressured far too much...or simply hacked down the ditch and never pressured at all. Good Lord, I've heard it all.

I've got an idea in my head that I can do my job without maligning the next guy. Crazy right? I figure that we are all working toward the same thing...building broke horses...so it's ok if you do it wearing a purple dinosaur suit and I do it roping critters out on the range. My horse might snort and blow at your odd apparel, but I'd put that on his good, common horse sense, not my lack of training ability. Same if your horse questioned the sensibility of roping a cow out on open ground...🤷

Have a good day folks. ☺️

Pictured below; a few of my string. Shoofly, Cash, and the tips of Dirty and Stylin's ears. ♥️

03/25/2025

Narnia at play today with squeals

03/25/2025

Arya update 🥰 she is doing soooooooo much better!

03/24/2025

The 3 prego mares: Due late April early may
Left- Sis
Middle- Lucy
Right- Annie

Front left corner photo bombing: Ditto

03/23/2025

Daisy had a moment, but it was controlled, so we are going to start getting her going under saddle!!

03/23/2025

Daisy and her tiny ride!

03/23/2025

Indigo getting more work on leading today

03/23/2025

Indigo getting her 1st out of pen leading session

03/23/2025

Willow working over the tarp and trailer loading for 1 of the boys!

03/23/2025

Willow trailer loading for 1 of the boys!

03/23/2025

More of Willow with 1 of the boys

03/23/2025

Willow getting handled by 1 of the boys

03/23/2025

Willow's 2nd attempt at trailer loading!!

03/23/2025

Willow's 1st attempt at trailer loading!!

03/23/2025

Narnia update!