Okay so we all know the great horse trainers, pat perelli, clinton anderson, sherry cervi and even local ones. But where in the world did they learn? I look at them and I'm like gosh were they just born knowing what to do :) Do any of you know any barrel racer / trainer backgrounds like if they've ever had any fails in their life as far as horses? It would be kind of nice to know that at some point they barley knew anything and had some epic fails. I'm not trying to be mean its just that now they are so great and I hope to be a trainer someday but when I go to the barn and have a bad day I'm just like Charmayne James never had HER horse do that. :( Haha and don't worry I don't expect to magically know everything I still get lessons and read training stuff every free minute I'm not at the barn. pets question and answers,www.5d2d.com
Okay, so to make this longggg drawn out question short: Do you know any barrel racer/ trainer fails and how they eventually grew from their fails and became so good :)

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Hmmm good question. I love Clinton Anderson! I'm working through his groundwork series with my 3 year-old mare. Some people just have a natural talent. And everyone starts somewhere! Just don't give up!

it sounds from this question that you just need to remember that they are just human! they started at the beginning, with an older more experienced trainer, and worked their way up, they had lots of luck and hard work to get to where they are, but OF COURSE they have bad days! every body does no matter how good you are. i don't know one person that rides at a high level that hasn't been bucked off at least once.

so i didn't really answer your question, but everyone has been at the bottom and trying to work through their bad days. the world class trainers and riders pushed through it, had some luck, got good horses, and made a name for themselves.

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They learn through experience and from other trainers. My current trainer takes every opportunity she can to ride with the "big boys." They are the big name trainers of the industry and they have many tricks up their sleeve. She learns new tricks each time and incorporates them into her program. If needed she can easily tweak it. She has been around horses for her whole life (50 years) and she has been professionally training for 32 years. Trainers are different because they have different experiences, different horses to work with, and have trained with different trainers.

I am not familiar with barrel racing trainers, however I know that my trainer has had some hard times. She rreceivedtwo terrible mares to train. One was aggressive and would attack people and horses in the ring. My trainer brought her to a much better place than when she started, however everyone only saw the crazy side of the mare. They didn't get to see the improvement. She had another mare that was abused to get the western going for futurities, so when the client pushed my trainer to get the 4 year old mare to do western all around made the mare snap. She became afraid of the show ring and every horse in it. She would lunge at other horses because she had been alone for a year before the client bought her. They were terribly messed up mares and they made the trainer look bad. The trainer had nothing to do with their behavior, it was an already established thing. They made the trainer look bad, however she is improving my crazy mare. We are working on bolting in the show ring and getting the mare to accept mouth contact. It's all in the horses that the trainer gets.

12 years riding/showing AQHA and APHA horses in local, 4-H, AQHA, and APHA shows. Competed in Hippology and Horse Bowl for 6 years. 2008 national champions Hippology team problem section. 2009 national Horse Bowl champions. 3rd place individual overall nationally, top individual in the state.

well, i don't know much, but i watch Clinton Anderson just for entertainment, he's very comical. one of his shows he was going over how much he struggled with horses as a boy. he got all the training books and such, but he did everything the way the books says, but the horse did the opposite, the books never said "do this if your horse does this". he said he got frustrated, mad, and saying he would sell the horse, loosing his temper...like most young people trying to learn. but he said he just learned from it, thats why i think he's a good teacher, not necessary for the horse but for the people. he had to struggle to find a way that works.

i think that was the show he announced he was retiring Mindy(i think that's his horse's name)