The new location is 25 miles from WEC, has extremely nice stalls and individual paddocks, a great ring with excellent footing and built in drainage, a hot walker and top notch care by knowledgeable horseman.
Full training is $3K per month for mares and geldings and $3300 per month for stallions. This price includes shoeing and trailering to and from local horse shows. There will be a straight 10% commission on sales, and honest, straight forward communication.
It's been a long road guys ... I'm not going to lie. But good things come to those who wait, and the tide is finally turning. The truth of who I am as a horseman and a human being ... seen through the politics and misconceptions that have followed me for the entirety of my professional career (beginning with an unfortunate run in with a particularly unforgiving powerful trainer we all know). They didn't evict me from my farm and deceptively relieve me of the four self bred horses I was about to kill it with (after helping our country to win a bronze medal in a world cup) because I suck. I work hard (horses will be ridden a minimum of 5 days a week), I'm honest, and I'm good at what I do. And I have piles of self bred horses trained and ridden by me with the videos to prove it. I'm a hairs breath away from doing it AGAIN with the one aged green home grown mare I have left, possibly in a big way, given the opportunity.
And those of us in the know all know what that means. The Grand Prix ring on a good horse is a big spot light, particularly in Ocala right now (arguably one of the most sought out locations for top horseman in the world). They did a good job of making it very difficult for me to financially viably show and be successful over the decades, but every time I did manage to show up, my horses and I made a strong positive impression (or negative if you were the competition). The financial monopoly some of these less than sportsmanship like horseman (to put it mildly:) have managed to maintain on this industry is overdue to be ended, and with a help of a few of you and your nice horses we can do it.
You have to be a bit of a known quantity here to make it happen, and you need to be 100% on your game, but I'm happy to say I'm finally focused and ready to give it all to be the best we can be. It takes a village, but the stars have finally aligned, and the support is there on multiple levels. I'm a few horse in training away from being right back out there at the rated shows, and I hope some of you will be willing to give us the chance to let you enjoy the blessing that can come when you continue to follow your heart and do and be what you know is right, regardless of the methodology of some surrounding you. I like a text to begin a conversation (because like so many of us I screen) ... (608)632-6053 ... thanks!:)
