12/24/2025
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I always tell my working students , you don’t need to be on a team or go advanced to be a pro you just need to learn to ride the horses that others can’t . Sometimes those horses will be the ones that give you an opportunity you could not have had unless you spent the time getting those skills learning to ride anything .
I read a final paper from one of my students the other day, and the last paragraph both upset me, frustrated me, and also made me think.
She had to write a synopsis of her internship at a competition barn, and although her experience with the trainers and the facility was good, she left the internship feeling jaded at her prospects of a career in this business.
Why? Because she wasn't wealthy.
I hear this a lot from students, and I also try to warn the cocky ones of the same.
Without financial backing - things are very hard. You won't be handed 6 figure horses, you won't have thousands for training fees, and you certainly won't be gifted a 12 stall barn with an attached indoor.
So - young folk who have the desire, drive, and talent but not inheritance - what do you do?
You learn to train.
Young stock. Rough stock. Broke stock. Broken stock.
The ones who were sold for $1. No pedigree, no name. The ones that won't get you a ribbon, but they sure as heck will get you forward.
To the young riders, the high schoolers, and even the college aged - take a break from the race towards ribbons and start focusing on the abundance of horses that will teach you essential (and lucrative) skills.
Like breaking yearlings.
Retraining thoroughbreds.
Gentling mustangs.
Putting a change on,
Or taking a buck off.
And - find barns that are doing THOSE things.
They might not be at the Maryland 5*, or Road to the Horse, but I guarantee they exist. Offer to sit and learn. Tack up. Lunge. Set fences. Hack. Keep your head down, and say yes.
Ribbons will come later, but the ability to train will be the enabler to those ribbons. It will provide you with credibility, and credibility will provide you with income.
No one cares that you are not riding Grand Prix, nor do they care that you're not on some esteemed list.
But they do care that you have desirable skills that this country is so drastically lacking, and with that, you have the financial means to lease that farm, produce that horse, and potentially even hunt those ribbons.
So, re-aim those goals, plan for the long term, and send a message to that c**t starter, that retrainer, or that sales barn.
I guarantee you they'll say yes, and I guarantee you you'll prosper from that time. (Copied from a friends post- Holly Jacks-Smither Carleigh Fedorka) ❤️❤️
