| Due to the high volume of e-mails and phone calls I am getting regarding horse training, I am offering this web page for potential clients. Basically, my training system is based on common sense. Go slow and quiet is what my dad always taught me. I was raised around Thoroughbreds, so I'm am accustomed to their unpredictable nature. Some say I am overly cautious, but I don't believe there is such a thing. I tell folks that "they all have teeth and feet, so yes .. they can kick and bite." Never let your guard down, even that quiet natured trail horse can have an "off day". I grew up on the race track with our Thoroughbreds. As a little one all I did was tack and groom, but as I got older I started colts under saddle, worked them on our training track at home, and then got into training pony horses. Since then I've raised Quarter Horses and Paints, and shown in just about every discipline. After having my daughter, staying home with her, and showing my dogs, I don't have the time to show horses, but I do have every day during the week to train client horses and help your horse be their best. Do you have a "problem horse" that you just can't part with? Do you dread the thought of taking them to the sale barn or slaughter house? Let me help! Specializing in problem-solving, rehabilitation, correction, but available to start your colts from the ground up. I have been raising and training horses for 20+ years, licensed vet tech and animal care specialist. Every discipline from racing to polo, western pleasure to hunter under saddle and trail. Your horse will be treated like a "horse", pastured with my other horses, with full access to hay/pasture, clean fresh water, and salt/mineral blocks. I offer pasture (just pasture, out with my horses - where he can learn to act like a horse), We are working on fencing a second pasture but it hasn't been finished yet, water (troughs scrubbed every Monday and Thursday), salt blocks, and grain at least 2x per day. If your horse is on special feed or supplements, I ask that you provide that but I'll be happy to give it to him as often as he is accustomed to. Pasture mates will be my old roping gelding, his 1/2 sister a little paint mare, my daughter's Hackney pony and any client horses currently at the farm. We attend most equine clinics and symposiums, and my choice trainers are John/Josh Lyons, Clinton Anderson, and Buck Brannaman among others. While visiting clinics and seminars will NOT make you a good horse trainer, years and years of practice, experiences, and thousands of hours of training and teaching will put you on the right path. DO NOT be fooled by these fly-by-night trainers that promise your horse will be broke to ride in 20 hours or 3 days or whatever it is they offer. This is THE quickest way to ruin your horse! Find a trainer that follows the horse's pace, and pushes JUST a little ... then backs off, like myself. My place is absolutely nothing fancy, basically just my home, the horse pasture, round pen, and a lot of land to ride on. We will work on general ground manners, loading/unloading, standing tied, farrier work, tacking and untacking, crossing bridges, water, roads, logs and ditches. These are NOT little "pony rides" they are long, hard rides, a lot of sweat and wet saddle blankets, mud, ditches, cars, bicycles, dogs, children, bridges, water crossings, trailering, etc. etc. You can most often find me riding Knob Noster, Blue and Gray, James A. Reed, and Monkey Mountain parks. Your horse will come back sane and sound, a horse you will be PROUD to own! I do offer delivery/pick-up for $1/mile each way, or I can come to your home and give your horse a "refresher" session starting at $100. I also offer FREE lessons on your newly-trained horse. Afterall, what is the point of having a well-broke horse that you don't know how to ride? I charge $15/day, with a max of $450/month - minimum of 2 weeks required. I don't think it's ethical to charge you for days that I don't ride, but I do ride nearly every day. I do often work your horse twice per day, but only charge you ONCE per day. I ask that $225 each horse be paid when dropping him off, and the remainder paid when you pick them up. Countless References ALWAYS available! E-mail me at showpugs@gmail.com or call me at 816-678-7556 for additional information or to reserve a spot! |
| Doolittle Acres Horse Training |
Trail opening on our farm, and Brody our "Farm Weimaraner"
The round pen, where
most of your horses'
beginning lessons will
be performed.
most of your horses'
beginning lessons will
be performed.
Trail and open area riding on our farm
Gravel driveway leading to large bridge. Your horses will
learn to ride on all types of terrain, and cross bridges,
water, logs, etc. while here at my farm.
learn to ride on all types of terrain, and cross bridges,
water, logs, etc. while here at my farm.
