Wow, blind over the course of 2 days? I have no idea to be honest. I work with all sorts of horses, but right now, primarily Walking Horses. We do quite well in the showring, giving the famous training barns fits, lol. No world championships yet, but we've put a few in the top five at World Celebration. And we do it totally clean. Unfortunately, many folks cheat to get more animated gaited action, but if you work with a horse from a psychological as well as physical perspective, the horse will actially want to work, always better than having to be forced to.

I've worked with everything from Minis to Quarterhorses to thoroughbreds, my forte' being getting basic behavior problems worked out. The real secret to that is simply going right back to the very basics which most professional show trainers only give minimal focus in their rush to get a horse "show ready". It always comes back to bite them in the ass eventually, every time.

When a horse goes 'sour' the big name barns sell them cheap, I scoop up a 5,000 dollar horse, then the next year regularly beat the pants off 40,000 dollar horses. We've even beaten World Champs on occasion at some of the smaller shows. Sadly, politics is part of championship runs, and I'm not the most politically correct person in the world. Oh well, I have fun, my horses have fun, and we enjoy ourselves immensely.

Also, if you really want to get another horse, you have to move it up the priority list, lol. There will rarely be a 'right' or convenient time to get one, so ya just do something 'stupid' and buy a dang horse, then rearrange your life around it, lol.

Now is a GREAT time to buy a horse. The market is as low and slow as it's been in decades, and people are practially giving good recreational horses away, already broke and trained and ready to ride. In some cases they are even actually giving them away to avoid the vet and feed expenses.

The only thing I'll add is to anyone considering a horse, keep in mind they aren't Komono Dragons, nor are they cute lil' puppies. Two ways to end up with a dangerous, cantankerous, ill-mannered horse are to treat it badly, or the other extreme, to treat it like a lovable puppy. Horses don't think like us. A horse never percieves another animal as an equal. Either you are the top dog, or it is, period. So many folks think they have a horses respect, and all they really have is a horses tolerance. There is a HUGE difference. And a horse may well listen to some desires and commands and stil percieve us as little more than a tolerable underling. Those are the horses you hear about who "suddenly" go from nice to dangerous. It's just that it sometimes takes years before we've tryed a horses patience to the breaking point.

I made a comfortable living for a few years 'fixing' peoples horses who made the mistakes on both extremes. Horses never have behaviour problems, humans do. A horse just shines a light on it.