May 2008

A Horse Trainer Is A Worthwhile Investment

Because none of us ever knows it all.

A 14-year-old girl who’s been riding a pony buys a 4-year-old Thoroughbred mare just a month after the mare won her last race. A week later, the mare bucks her off into the arena fence, breaking her arm.

A middle-aged woman, whose two years of riding experience consists of weekly lessons on a kind schoolhorse, buys an 18-hand, high-octane, 4-year-old warmblood. And, after being unable to control him one day, she never rides him again. …