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Location: Cocoa, Florida | I'm just a backyard trainer so to say, I take projects or horses I can buy cheap and flip for fun and extra money (mostly the rejects). I do this more for fun then for money, it's rare I come out ahead on the sale, which I did with this one and a couple recent ones. To me it's self gratifying to watch someone go out and win or run just a great pattern or even place in the 4D on a horse I started!
How many of you do this?
Anyway, when I got this huge buckskin mare she couldn't even lope a circle, let alone pick up the correct lead and turn, now 7-8 months later I sold her to a good friend, she took a chance after a few months of having her and entered a big 3 day show and they won!!!! Not only did they win their class, they pullled 2 checks and won a buckle! It just made me sooooo proud!
Here's a video of her a week before I sold her doing an exhibition
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Location: OH. IO | We dont do it,BUT,you are doing a great thing! You are giving horses a chance at a better life just by bettering(ill probably get hit for my terminology) there skills in life! VERY NICE!!!! you must be proud of that one for sure |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | I love the rejects, my best horse is a grade mare I paid $500 for , have had two offers over 6500 she has the biggest heart she was just a pain in the butt as a colt/filly nobody gave her a chance Because she acted a little nutty. I rode her one time and I just knew by the way she moved and how she moved forward so willingly she was going to be great. She still acts a little nutty but those are the kind horses I like ha ha .
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Location: TEXAS | RnRJack - 2016-11-04 6:45 AM
I'm just a backyard trainer so to say, I take projects or horses I can buy cheap and flip for fun and extra money (mostly the rejects ). I do this more for fun then for money, it's rare I come out ahead on the sale, which I did with this one and a couple recent ones. To me it's self gratifying to watch someone go out and win or run just a great pattern or even place in the 4D on a horse I started!
How many of you do this?
Anyway, when I got this huge buckskin mare she couldn't even lope a circle, let alone pick up the correct lead and turn, now 7-8 months later I sold her to a good friend, she took a chance after a few months of having her and entered a big 3 day show and they won!!!! Not only did they win their class, they pullled 2 checks and won a buckle! It just made me sooooo proud!
Here's a video of her a week before I sold her doing an exhibition
https://youtu.be/4rARB_Sjztw
I applaud you
We need to Trend a new name - I dislike when people are referred to Backyard Trainers.. Especially when your proof alone of what you've accomplished shows you are a GREAT Trainer of someone's thrown away reject horse..
Edited by turn3turnsok 2016-11-04 8:24 AM
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Location: Deep South | I guess I would consider myself a backyard trainer, seeing as I never leave my backyard. Lol! I began starting colts because I was just burnt out from hauling to rodeos/barrel races. I started hauling when I was 7 and it had consumed my entire life from then through college.
So now I train from the arena in my backyard and sell them when they're ready to move beyond that. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Good job 
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Location: North Dakota | Nice work!!!
I bet that is SOOO rewarding! I too trained my current barrel horse (we won our first 1D buckle last fall) from the ground up. Bought her as an unbroken 2 year old.
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Location: Texas | what makes someone backyard?
We've done this with several horses throughout the years. We rescued a weanling filly years ago that was a starvation case. She was bred to be a pleasure/show horse so we pointed her in that direction. She ended up making a really nice local open show level HUS horse and I won some high point awards on her in English classes. I sold her to a friend of mine for a decent bit.
We have a weanling filly this year who was the product of an accidental breeding by her previous owner. We bought her dam unintentionally in foal. The foal's sire ended up having the wrong sire listed on his papers because he was a live cover and they were wrong about who his sire was... so my filly's paternal grandsire is incorrect... therefore, she won't get registered until they decide to change it themselves. Which they won't. We are planning on keeping her and getting her at least broke to where she has some skills and hopefully will find a good home. Or maybe she'll be the next big thing some day and we'll keep her. LOL |
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Location: MD | I've made a business out of bringing around/along horses that others have cast aside. I like the blow ups. Some of the best horses I have ever made have been horses that other professionals had deemed not talented enough very early on. Congratulations to you for acknowledging the abilities that these horses have and developing them as you do! |
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Location: Kansas | This is what I would love to do part time! Get horses from kill pens or auctions, train them, and find them new homes. |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | I would consider those who don't have an LLC or big name training farm, backyard trainers. those of us who do it more for a hobbie or a little extra cash every now and then. |
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Location: Arkansas | I think it's awesome that there are those of y'all that have the talent and patience to take horses others have given up on or never saw the talent to begin with and give them a chance, not just to perform, but to even just get to have a life. Nothing but good things to say to and about y'all. |
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Location: Canada | We do it all the time. We buy horses trail horses, pleasure ridden horses, horses that are on the pattern but not succeeding with their owners and then fix what is missing and start them on the pattern again and enter them in jackpots or rodeos.
I've made quite a bit of money doing this and most times I've never listed them for sale I've just had offers to buy that I couldn't pass up. I don't buy and flip right away most are with me a while and compete for a season.
I love buying 6-10 year old trail horses and turning them in to competitive athletes. I have much more fun moving up the divisions then I do running my good 1D horses. I love being aboard when they find confidence or more speed and seeing them become solid at this sport. If I liked riding colts I'd be all over trying futurity and Derby's but I like my ponies older lol. |
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