Trainer Training: 100 Tips for the Professional Horse Trainer

(Unillustrated) This book is NOT a horse training book for the non-professional. This book primarily concerns itself with the BUSINESS of training horses.

"Trainer Training" offers one hundred situations a trainer might face.

Written specifically for the professional horse trainer, this is a compilation of one hundred “things I’ve learned” throughout my over thirty years with horses, sixteen plus of them as a pro. Some are listed quickly, some are placed in greater detail. (For each entry, to paraphrase Mozart, I used “only as many notes” as necessary and point the reader toward further resources when the subject matter threatens to creep beyond the scope of this book.)

This is not meant to outline “the only way” to do things or to look at things – it’s simply one hundred quick pieces of advice I’d offer a compatriot were I asked. Every horse trainer reading this could easily make their own list – and, given our myriad experiences and disparate backgrounds, I doubt we’d overlap all that much. And, there, it’s that “lack of overlap” that gives this book both its perspective and value.

My background (beyond “horses”) is in marketing, writing, and as a long-time computer geek. Hence, the tips contained herein focus – to a great extent – on those segments of our business. Note also that a great deal of the info also circles around special events (clinics, symposiums, talks, etc.) that a pro might offer – in large part, because this is where so darned many weird things can happen (and where much money can be made).