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A little history:
I’d like to share with you my back ground. I have not come from a long line of rodeo families or successful equine ranchers. I have worked hard to educate myself and grow myself into the trainer I am today because I truly love horses and the sport of barrel racing. I believe beyond a shadow of any doubt that God was gracious enough to bless me with a gift. To be able to successfully ride and train barrel horses is something that I am unwilling to take for granted and am thankful for each and everyday. The opportunity to live my dream is by the grace and goodness of my heavenly father.
I have been on horse back most all of my life. I believe my mother sealed my fate even before birth, as she was herself a horse nut and was on horse back just 3 days prior to my birth. Once I got my feet on the ground I was on a horse in some way shape or form. I showed in 4-H shows in many different events of the western nature and moved to hunter jumpers before high school. Although I enjoyed the horses no matter what discipline I was involved in, I ALWAYS dreamed of barrel racing. I couldn’t wait for the chance to be involved in Rodeos, Playdays and Barrel Races. It wasn’t until late in my high school days that I got a small taste of my dream. I even “trained” my first barrel horse before graduating high school. I stress the quote trained due to the fact that I was at that time completely UNEDUCATED in the field of barrel horse training. Fortunately Nadie was a horse that had a lot of natural talent and she survived the crash coarse / trial and error methods I used then ad laugh about now. Nadir Grass went on with my kid sister Sandy Nelson Weathers to a successful high school rodeo and armature rodeo career. She was a competitor with the likes of Kim West’s great paint gelding who competed in the same circle at the time and took Kim to the NFR.
Once I left home and married I became much more involved in barrel racing. Again taking a shot at training my own barrel horse. Char Grass Blaze was a daughter of Nadie and was even more easy to train than her mother. Charley as a 3 year old ran the 5th fastest time right behind her mama at the Canton, Ok open rodeo, which in that day was a pretty tough rodeo in our area. I remember being scolded by a dear friend, Karla Oller, for entering such a nice young horse at such a young age and blowing the chance for her to compete as a futurity horse. Well, I was totally ignorant at that time of futurities and anything that had to do with them. Oops!!!
That is the short version of where it all started. It isn’t all shiny and legendary, but that’s it.
About the TRAINING:
There are a lot of fancy ways to describe training barrel horses, but here is how I put it…
Just as with people God gives horses different talents, abilities, strengths, weaknesses, personalities and desires. It is up to us as riders, trainers and owners to shape them into the BEST version of themselves.
Horses learn by feel thru repition so each and every time we come into contact with them, whether that be on the ground or on their back, they will learn something from us and we should learn from them.
For me training a barrel horse is greatly about feel. Because we can’t really demonstrate visually to a horse how to run to, shape, rate and turn a barrel, as to a horse these are merely tasks. We have to reptiously through feel and contact show them how to successfully complete each task. They have to know where, when, how, and why to complete each task using themselves in a manner best suited for the physical and mental make up God gave them.
It is our job to communicate clearly, again through feel and contact, when it is right and when it is wrong. Once the horse gains clear confidence in what is expected of them it is then and only then that they can become the best version of themselves as a barrel horse.
What makes MD Spur Barrel Horses different from other barrel horse trainers? It is that when people send their horse to MD Spur Barrel Horses for barrel training they can be confident that their is always a genuine concern for them and their equine investment. The success of each and every horse matters! It is my deepest desire and goal that my clients and their horses succeed to the BEST of their ability.
Invest in your horses future! Let MD Spur Barrel Horses shape your horses into the BEST POSSIBLE VERSION OF THEMSELVES.