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I Really Love Jeans
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Location: North Dakota | You can kiss your money goodbye for sure! Let them know you will come get the horse so you can start entering it! Be calm, cool, and nice about it and go pick the horse up! Could be the horse or it could be they were not riding the horse, you have no way of knowing! Ride your horse yourself for a month and see if you can make any progress! Its a business to them so as long as they have your horse there they are getting a paycheck!! They may be honorable enough to say since you were not there the entire time they will refund part of the fees but definately not likely in the horse industry!!!! |
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  If it Ain't a Paint it Ain't!
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Location: Mansfield, Tx | Go get your horse and papers.. it's that easy...
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Central Texas | Fun2Run - 2016-02-06 12:44 PM
If you've already paid February, tell trainer about the 20th of the month that you'll be taking your horse home and to please have his papers in hand for you at that time.
You don't have to explain anything more than that. If trainer asks why, just say you're ready to have your horse home. Simple as that. Â
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Miss Southern Sunshine
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Location: South Central Florida | mollibtexan - 2016-02-07 4:44 PM As a trainer I have a different point of view. What it comes down to is do you trust this person anymore? When you are dealing with babies sometimes it's good then bad then great. Bits a process. When we say haul we mean every other week. These babies can't be ran every weekend and hold together. If you no longer trust the trainers opinion or plan at the end of the month when you next bill is due go pick the horse up and say you just feel as though it's time for a change.
I agree a lot with this. I think a lot of problems between trainers and horse owners are differing expectations and communication.
I would not want to haul a baby or a finished horse more than 3 or 4 times in a month. To me a lot of young horses are blown up not by bad riding or training, but just pressure. I have one that is amazing, but I think was pressured too much too early and never recovered. However, that is an individual issue and I have no idea what the big dogs do with horses that are competing at the top of the futurities.
I do expect a horse to lose weight at a trainers. Being ridden and worked regularly will cause that, and it's not always a bad thing. I also had a friend with feet issues with her trainer. The horse was not shod and she paid for feet about every 8 weeks. My horses could never go 8 weeks. I'm not sure if it's where I live or what I feed or even if it's area specific, but at 5 weeks I'm worried. We do 4 weeks and 5 at the most depending on weather and available days. That's trims and shoes. I think the trainer in this case was thinking she only wanted them done every 8 weeks, she was thinking he was the one that only wanted 8 weeks. . . again it was a miss communication.
Another thing people do is bring them home and not ride them for weeks or months. There are a lot of reasons that can happen, but you can not blame a trainer for those issues. If you get on a horse 3 months later, one horse might remember everything, another might have to be started over.
I would kindly and politely tell them you want the horse competed on more, make arrangements to get the horse and forget the money if they say no. Eight to ten months of training, and sounds like good training, the balance does not seem like much but that's me.
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Expert
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Location: California | If she won't give you your horses paper back, don't worry, you can call AQHA and tell them the papers were either lost or stolen and will get new papers. Sorry. |
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