Providence Farm

New Year = fresh footing! ❤️🐎❤️

It costs over $2000 to show your horse at an A show for a weekend in our area....
Expensive or a fair price?? 🤔

Inside the Numbers: Cost Breakdown of an A Show in Texas - The Plaid Horse Magazine BY TPH STAFF It’s no secret that horse shows are expensive. There’s really no cap on what you can spend. We think it’s important to be transparent when possible on real line-item costs. Some people will look at the below line items and say, You can do it cheaper! And others will roll their eye...

It's definitely a life of blood, sweat & tears...not necessarily in that order. 😅

Oh so many people don’t realize that this horse trainer life isn’t all that glamorous. If you think this is the life for you, I suggest being a working student or a farm hand for a bit to get a taste of what it’s really like.

It’s dirty. It’s sweaty. It’s exhausting.

It doesn’t matter what the weather is like, you still have to take care of the horses.

It doesn’t matter if you’re sick, you still have to take care of the horses.

It doesn’t matter if you’re pregnant, sad, mad, broke or broken, someone still has to take care of the horses.

Very little of a horse trainer’s time is actually spent on the back of a horse. I feed 5 times per day, horses go out, horses come in, stalls have to be cleaned with shavings as needed, water buckets have to be scrubbed and filled, hay bags get filled twice daily, sweaty horses hosed, boots on and off, cuts and scrapes doctored, etc, etc.

Guess who gets paid to do all of that.

No one.

For me, lessons pay for feed, hay, supplements, vet and farrier.

This career is not going to make you millions and it’s not all riding fancy horses.

It’s a lot of grunt work, day in and day out.

And it’s all for the love of the horse and the pursuit of a dream.

💙 Cara