Horse Training with Mindy Bower

Colorado Horsewoman Mindy Bower reflecting back on her experience with Ray Hunt, "But the first moment I listened to him I was, I couldn't believe how amazing it was so it didn't take me but a minute to figure that out. But I just feel like nowadays there's just trainers or there's a million of them. They're everywhere and it doesn't take anything to get a client. I mean I've worked with a lot of trainers too that they have no clue. That just amazes me. And even after I've kind of gone through things with them I'll still get a horse from them that you just think, what? Wait, have you not been doing the groundwork? They just don't carry it forward. They think it's just a day in the life and not like a complete way of living. So I mean I just, everything I do has the groundwork in it. If I'm just walking through the corral with all the horses loose I'm paying attention to what they're doing and how they move around me and whether they want to run past me or run through the gate or run away from me. I'm trying to make sure that they don't have that feeling even when they're in the corral. But I just don't think that if people keep their horses in the stall, they can just walk in there. They don't have to think. I just went and worked this morning that they've been having now, he just, he's just a baby but now he's starting to rear. They can't lead him to the round pin. And I bet I spent, I don't know, at least an hour in this stall area just working on getting him ready to catch. And she said, I said, well how would it be for you to catch you? And I said, oh I just walked right in and catch him. And I said, yeah but you can see he's not ready to be caught."

Colorado horse trainer Mindy Bower.