10/30/2025
👉🏻30 days doesn't mean 30 rides
👉🏻60 days doesn't mean 60 rides
“I'll be honest this has been the biggest lesson I've learned watching Mark the last year. And I'll be even more honest, it's changed the way I look at what I expected of trainers for so many years of my life.
I spent YEARS sending c**ts to trainers to be started and I thought 60 days meant I was getting a 60 ride c**t back, Looking back now I realize how absurd that is.
I've been watching Mark for a year now. And what I've learned the most is, a c**t might have 20 rides in its first 30 days. It might also have zero rides... he isn't who determines how far a c**t makes it in those 30 days.
THE C**T IS 👏🏻
Mark spends so much time ground driving them, that by the time he ACTUALLY rides one, they already know how to stop, back, turn a pivot and give to pressure with a bit in their mouth.
Why is that so important?
Because that means he isn't trying to teach a c**t to STOP that first time he is on their back. They already know that by the time he swings a leg over. Which keeps him safe. It keeps that horse safe!
Most of all it prevents a WHOLE mess of wrecks because that horse already has a concept of control.
Because Mark spends so much time "building a face" before "swinging a leg" a 5 ride c**t will ride like 30 ride c**t by most standards a 30 ride c**t is already outside being worked on. But it's because he MAKES A FACE before he SWINGS A LEG.
I get not everyone does that;
And that's ok.
Training methods are basically opinions …
But I will say it's made me have a whole new respect for what starting a c**t looks like with Mark. And why he requires 60-90 minimums with c**ts he starts. He's not going to mash a c**t through to riding just to appease what absurd industry standards have been set before trainers, that set horses up for failure.”
30 days doesn't mean 30 rides👈🏻
60 days doesn't mean 60 rides👈🏻
90 days doesn’t mean 90 rides👈🏻
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