Time with a solid horse trainer is one of the best investments you can make in this business.
Everyone wants to talk about how high horse prices have gone, but what I don’t hear is people talking about the price of horse training going up. Training costs have stayed close to the same, while the opportunity for those types of young head horses and young heel horses has gone up tenfold.
What does that mean? It means buying a well-bred 2-year-old didn’t make sense seven or eight years ago, but it might make sense today. As an amateur roper, you’ll be money-up on a horse by paying a trainer to make him solid.
If you start with a handy-broke 3-year-old for $12,000, I believe you should see an amazing transformation. I think after…
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The Team Roping Journal (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022