04/15/2026
So you rode a couple horses for your friend as a favor, and you had a lot of fun doing it…You even fixed some minor “bucking” issues while you were riding those horses.
And now you think to yourself….
I want to be a HORSE TRAINER! 🐴
I can do it right? I mean how hard could it be?
I’m QUALIFIED. ✅
So you put an AD out and say you have 10-20+ years of experience working with horses!
When in reality those years were spent going to play dates, gymkanas, having a couple lessons here and there….But…Experience is experience right?
I mean you’ve always been around horses…
And so you sucker some people into sending you a few horses for training, and at first it was great, you liked this whole horse trainer thing, and you thought you were GOOD at it.
Until…
You realized that being a horse trainer means that you have to do the same tiring and REPETITIVE work even in the bad weather, even when you’re sick, even when you’re upset, even when you want to go out with your friends, and before you know it…
You fall behind on those horses, but it’s ok, the client won’t notice because you will just play catch up!
Until…
You DON’T have those good results to show the clients, and they want UPDATES, what do you do now?!
You did everything right, so you thought…
You put a little time on the horses and rode them around some obstacles. You even gave a lesson on one of them!
Except….One of them is rearing now.. ❌
The other is bucking…. ❌
And well…you can’t even saddle the other one without it pulling back and freaking out. ❌
These horses didn’t come to you with these issues, soooo how did that happen?
Surely it wasn’t you right?
But it was.
It was your lack of knowledge, true experience, and consistency.
That made it all come crashing down.
And now your clients are upset.
What will you do?
You will say they just “need” more time…
When in reality, YOU are the one who needs more time…(And LOTS of lessons).
Before you know it, those horses you “trained” have been taken out of your program and sent to another trainer…
To clean up the mess YOU made…
But it’s ok, it wasn’t your fault, they were just BAD horses you say.
You’ll get some more horses to “train” in no time. 🤠
This is a situation that I see very often in the horse world, and I can say this has happened several times almost word for word in just my local area alone, and I’ve had these horses SENT to me to fix after they have been previously messed up by a “trainer”, it gets TIRING to fix horses after someone who was supposed to do it right failed due to their own ego and ignorance, and that is why many GOOD trainers are pickier than ever about the horses they will accept into their program.
It’s not worth it to us to get hurt from another trainers mistakes when we are worth much more than that.
Think twice about calling yourself a horse trainer just because you’ve been around horses. It’s not worth ruining horses to suit your ego. 🙏
