Another Journey Begins - The Ripple Effect

Part One

Most every day I speak to a couple different horse friends on the phone. We talk about the usual stuff and mostly how things are going with my horses and theirs. During the time when I just began working from BG and WF's facility, I was telling these friends all the things I thought I was learning about BG and what he seemed to know about horses.

One of those things BG had shown me was how to do what he calls boxing. I'd allowed him to try it on Legs to see if it would help get the horse deeper underneath himself. I had even tried it on Dandy to see if it would help with that horse too. It was an interesting concept and BG wanted to show me how far he could take it suggesting there were many variations that could be done so he was continuing to work with Legs before I rode the horse each day.

Not long after this started, one of my friends was having problems with her horse, Goldie. She decided that maybe BG was the man to fix them based on what I'd said so she called him. It was from BG that I learned the mare was coming to him for training.

The funny thing about her decision was at this time I really hadn't seen BG in the light of being a horse trainer I would consider for a show horse . He seemed to be more of a cowboy to me and the history he relayed was certainly cowboy. Not that there is anything wrong with a cowboy philosophy, it's just that cowboys do not usually do or even want to do show horses. For me, I saw BG as someone who loved horses and was probably good at starting them but not really a show horse trainer. Also there is a wide gap between finishing a horse and starting one, nothing I'd heard from BG told me he'd finished any type of horse.

Even WF had said to me BG was not "really" a trainer. Among other things she's said the man didn't even know his leads. . From what I'd seen the horses he was working with were not doing all that well in the ring and they sure didn't seem finished the way that I would want. While working along side him in an arena was one thing, training a horse for me would be another.

I was thinking there were probably better choices for my friend to send her horse to but I didn't express those thoughts. I'd already learned that people don't necessarily want to hear the trainer they've chosen might not cut it so I kept my mouth shut. There was the possibility with this mare's issues he might just surprise me. My friend wasn't looking for a finished show horse anyway. What she wanted was a safe horse to ride.

The mare had been returned to my friend after a failed lease/purchase option contract. The party and her trainer were having trouble with the mare rearing and also being naughty in the show ring. The amateur who had hoped to buy the mare was not equipped to deal with such a problem so the mare was returned after lengthy attempts to fix things to no avail.

Since my friend is also a breeder and pretty much in the same position as me with too many horses, she really needed to get this mare sold. Knowing the odds of getting that done with such an issue she'd decided the best thing to do was to get the rearing fixed.

Now with my friend's mare going to BG to be fixed it was going to be interesting to see what kind of skills BG really had. Although it would be important to note I never saw this mare under saddle before this time so there really was no frame of reference other than what we'd heard and what BG said.

To be continued...........

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