Horse Training

farm freebies You know how to communicate with horses, but communicating with their owners is a different story. Here at Riding Instructor University, we provide practical, profit-oriented tips on how to keep your horse training business growing day by day.

How to Refuse a Horse for Training

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Sometimes horse trainers are so focused on finding and wooing potential clients that they forget about the other side of the coin. Sure, you need clients to survive in the horse business, but you aren’t the best fit for every horse in the world. So what if you have to refuse a horse for training?

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How to Build Up Endurance for Horse Training

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Back in high school if someone asked me whether or not I played a sport, my answer was always the same: “Yeah, I ride horses.” And the response was inevitable: “Riding horses isn’t a sport!” Oh, how little my peers knew. If you’ve ever spent half an hour posting the trot or an afternoon riding [...]

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Dangerous Horses in the Horse Business

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Despite what you might have heard, dangerous horses do exist. They might have been made dangerous by the ways in which they’ve been treated, but that doesn’t make them any less of a threat to your horse business.

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How to Keep Your Horse Training Overhead Low

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If you’re not careful, horse training can become quite an expensive profession. Between tack and other equipment, administrative supplies, and the upkeep on your stable, it can be difficult to stay afloat.

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Horse Trainers:
Red Flags to Avoid

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There are hundreds of articles and books and white papers out there about how to find a quality horse trainer. What you don’t see very often is advice on finding a quality horse training client. If you aren’t selective in the people (and horses) you accept in your training program, your professional life will be one long headache.

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What’s Included in Your
Horse Training Fee?

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Horse training sounds pretty simple, right? People hire you to work with their horses, you solve the animals’ problems, and you get paid for your effort. No problem.

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Why Horse Trainers Should Never
Make Guarantees

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Guarantees are common in the business world. Entrepreneurs know that customers are more likely to buy when they feel their purchase is secure. Guarantees provide that security.

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7 Things Horse Trainers
Should Never Say

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1“Your horse is the devil.” You’d be surprised how often I’ve heard this from the mouths of horse trainers, and it’s just not a good idea. Your clients don’t want to hear that their horses are demons on hooves, and the truth is no horse deserves this label.

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Horse Training at
Someone Else’s Facility

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P urchasing an equestrian facility—or buying land and building it yourself—is expensive. Too expensive, in fact, for most start-up equestrian professionals. Unless you’ve won the lottery or inherited a chunk of change from Great Aunt Mabel, you might have to pursue horse training at someone else’s facility.

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Safety Tips for Horse Trainers

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From breaking colts to bringing performance horses to the next level of competition, there are myriad ways for horse trainers to get hurt. And since the horse business is your source of income—which likely comes without workers’ comp—it is in your best interests to avoid getting hurt.

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Communication in Horse Training

In response to last week’s article, Why Horse Trainers Shouldn’t Advertise Natural Horsemanship, I received several e-mails accusing me of prejudice against natural horsemanship. I invite you to go back and re-read the article, specifically the last few lines.

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Why Horses Trainers Shouldn’t
Advertise Natural Horsemanship

When potential clients call, do you tell them that you practice natural horsemanship in your horse training business? If so, you could be making a huge mistake.

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How to Set a
Horse Training Schedule

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Without a horse training schedule, trainers are inefficient and often confused. Use these tips to earn more money and please more clients.

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Do You Need a
Horse Training Assistant?

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A horse training assistant can be very beneficial for the career of a horse trainer. However, you don’t want to jump the gun and hire someone you can’t afford.

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Hacking for Horses in Training

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Hacking can be beneficial for horse trainers who work their clients’ horses several times a week. Learn the benefits of hacking and when you should use this tool for your horse business.

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Expectations in Horse Training

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Dealing with unreasonable expectations is one of the downsides of a career in horse training. You can mitigate this particular problem, however, by following these tips.

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Training Horses:
Your Place or Mine?

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Should you run your horse training business from your own facility or travel to your clients? Use these pros and cons to set up your operation and make key decisions.

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Types of Horse Training

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Horse trainers should cultivate a niche for which they are known. Use these tips to identify your horse training specialty before you start your business.

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John Lyons
Lyons on Horses

Lyons on Horses

Review of John Lyons’s book LYONS ON HORSES. Learn why I gave John Lyons a shot and how you can use this book to benefit your horse training business.

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How to Communicate with Clients
in Horse Training

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Download your free horse training progress report template and learn how to use it.

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