01/12/2024
Ride like you have nothing to lose.
When we’ve been doing this for a long time; when we have a lot of experience and knowledge of the sport; when we’ve built a reputation and acquired some personal belongings; when we’ve made millions of mistakes… we tend to back off.
We start thinking about all the negative consequences of the horse becoming a run-off, a barrel crasher, refusing the gate, loosing weight, etc.—What will people think? Will the owner take the horse home? Will I ever be able to sell this horse? We remember every time we made an error in training and we try to avoid that situation by backing off and training more slowly and correctly.
The result—a slower, more correct horse......that doesn’t win a damn thing.
You MUST ride like you have nothing to lose!
Why?
Because there is a younger, less experienced trainer/ rider out there who has nothing to lose, everything to prove and WILL ride accordingly! This takes true courage.
The courage to accept that failure is a possibility. That you may lose much of what you’ve worked so hard to achieve.
But the consequences of NOT laying it all on the line are dire.
If you don’t push the envelope, your soul will suffer a slow, agonizing defeat and those past accolades will no longer matter.
So muster up all the courage you have and ride like you have nothing to lose.
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