07/06/2026
Let’s talk c**t STARTING. *This post is only meant to better explain our philosophy on the first months of a horse’s formative training.*
Here, at Star D, our c**t *starting* program is 90-120 days.
In that time frame, our goal is to progress each horse along at the pace they are best able to learn and what we accomplish can vary from horse to horse. We never sugar coat what we do or give unrealistic expectations to owners. Often a horse has simple body control, is fairly soft in both a loping hackamore and snaffle, can load, lead well, lunge, hobble, round pen,knows what the word “whoa” means and is set up for the years of training to come. But at the end of the training, each c**t is usually at a different spot. Now, it has been said on the internet that 90 days of training should be enough to have a horse spinning and hole in the ground, stopping 20 ft., be able to stand on their back and pop a whip, etc. And maybe, in some cases, that is true for a specific horse, however, there is a key that people miss, the word *starting*. This time is only 3 months! 3 MONTHS of a horse’s training, only THE START. They’re TWO, they literally have barely started life. We truly believe that the 90 days a c**t is here is merely just to prepare them to GO ON to training, not to finish them, it can take a professional 5, 6, 7 YEARS to finish a horse, and it is far more important to us to put a solid foundation on a horse here at the *start* than it is to see how fancy we can get them.
