05/06/2026
Three trainers told me to cut my losses. Two friends offered to take him off my hands and neither one followed through when they saw him go. The vet said his conformation wasn't ideal and that I should adjust my expectations. I listed him twice online and both buyers backed out before they finished watching the video. He was unpredictable. He was reactive. He had a wall-eye and a ewe neck and a reputation in my barn as the horse that would test you every single time. I spent two years convinced I had made a terrible mistake buying him. And somewhere in that second year something started shifting. Not in him. In me. I stopped trying to fix what I had decided was broken. I started watching what he was actually telling me. I stopped comparing him to the other horses I had trained and started meeting him where he was. The transformation didn't happen in a day. It happened in a hundred days of me changing my approach instead of waiting for him to change his. He is now the horse I reach for when I want something done right. He has more try than any horse I have ever owned. He just needed someone to stop trying to override it and start directing it. Don't give up on the hard ones. Sometimes they're the ones that are really waiting for you to figure something out. 🐴
