20/10/2026
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People often think the hardest part of training horses is dealing with the dangerous ones, the difficult ones, the ones that rear, buck, nap, bolt or simply refuse to move.
And yes, those moments can be challenging.
But do you know what I think is one of the hardest parts of this job?
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Sometimes you take a horse on to back it, and discover it isn't physically comfortable.
Sometimes you take on a horse with behavioural problems, and realise those behaviours are telling you something nobody has listened to.
Sometimes you have a plan, a timescale and an owner waiting for results, but the horse has other ideas. π
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It's easy to follow a programme when everything goes to plan. It's much harder to put your own expectations aside, investigate the problem, change direction and do what's right for the horse, even when it takes longer than anyone hoped.
Because these horses aren't machines. They don't arrive with a guaranteed timescale, and they certainly don't all read the training manual! ππ΄
Our job isn't simply to produce a horse that does what we ask.
It's to understand the horse in front of us, recognise when something isn't right, and build a partnership that has a chance of lasting long after they leave our yard.
Sometimes the biggest achievement isn't a first ride, a canter, a jump or a horse finally overcoming a problem.
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