Taming Training Costs

Taming Training Costs

Welcome to your next issue of "Horse Class," your how-to source for equine tips, tricks and solid foundational training brought to you by horsemanship101.com and John Lyons Certified Trainer Keith Hosman.

Is the cost of training your horse going to break you before it does your horse? And how dangerous is your horse, really?

This issue's featured article "How to Make Horse Training (More) Affordable" shows us how to diagnose, then get our horses trained without putting us in the poor house.

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Make Training Affordable!

Got a horse that needs training but you can't afford it and you'd never consider giving away so much potential? The horse you saved from the packer or bred yourself or adopted at the BLM? He loves you and you love him and you gave him a really cool name. Yet you're getting the creeping feeling that you're in over your head. Flicka seems to be getting more dangerous daily and you're beginning to believe that he lies awake at night thinking of ways to torment you. But, darn it, he's got potential! Things could be so good! Flicka's bred to death; he's "out of Texas by Boxcar." He's a free spirit, gorgeous and happy. Sure, he gets grumpy when asked to do... anything... but if you could just figure out how to unlock all that potential...

And what's really driving you nuts is that everybody at the barn has an opinion. "Use a stronger bit, use a leverage bit, throw the bit away and ride with a hackamore." You'd tell them to stick their advice - but you just got dumped again and you're in no position to argue.

Unfortunately, horses get worse in these situations. They don't grow out of it like human teens (usually) do.

Your horse is going from bad to worse. If things keep progressing at this pace, you'll get kicked in the head this time tomorrow. But what to do? Professionals cost (at least) several hundred per month. Quick calculations show that it'd take somewhere around eighty-bazillion dollars to build your baby into the horse of your dreams, the one who meets you at the gate, leads beautifully and rides like a Cadillac....

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