Kates Performance Horses

08/03/2020

08/01/2020

Mastering the showmanship starts at home. Here I’ll offer some advice and share different exercises you can practice with your horse to improve your score.

06/26/2020

The problem with horse training is that society is set up to believe that you can buy a service and have things the way you want in a certain time frame. People look at horse training as if they're spending their money on a product. And yet even the best horse trainers will tell you the horse takes its own time, and no one can guarantee a horse will be doing what you want from it when you want from it. The other problem is that even if your trainer can get t done with your horse, it doesn't necessarily mean that you will be able to. Getting a horse right takes an amount of commitment on the owners part to develop the same type of relationship that the trainer has, otherwise how can you expect from your horse for yourself what your trainer gets, when it's they who have put in the hours, the sweat, the patience and the desire to get Along with that horse? You aren't spending money on a tune up for your car that you can take home and drive.
The fact that money is involved leads people to believe they deserve something for what they paid, and they do, but, it happens in the animals time, not the humans. I think any good trainer would say they would do this for free if they could, just to help horses and people. And yet, we all have to eat.

11/29/2017

Not the best pictures in the world but bentley is making progress

11/13/2017

Bentley carried the saddle today and I started putting a bit of weight on him. Bentley is such a sweet boy.

11/10/2017

Bentley had his first groundriving lesson today and he picked it up quickly, already turns both directions and backs.

11/02/2017

Bentley' s first day. He was a great boy today, carried his first bit and got to meet all the other critters on the farm.

11/01/2017

Mr. Bentley just came in today. He's going to be a fun boy.