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TRAINING SERVICES AND BOARDING INFORMATION

TRAINING~~~~~BOARDING

 CONTRACT REQUIRED

BOARDING

MARE care boarding All hay and feed provided in this price. Vet charges for emergency or other will be paid by owner in addition to extraordinay services beyond basic full care board. Contract and care sheet  will be provided and completed before arrival. Stall and paddocks available. Small pasture may be shared. No Stallions.

$4.00 day paddock only board for dry mares

$7.00 day stall board with turn out time for dry mares

add $2 per day for mares with foals

NO PUBLIC BOARDING AT THIS TIME.

Larry Wood

At this time I am working with Larry Wood at Clear Fork Ranch for training our horses and outside horses at his farm. Located an easy drive from our  farm... He has limited training spots available and have training horses going at all times. He works really well with the horses, no gimmicks, all hard work and hands on and hours of handling, hours of riding using common sense training methods that are very effective and get great results. Larry does all around breaking, starting, trail riding and shoeing They have limited space. Pasture board only, included. Coming soon, a full scale riding arena. Plans are in the making.
  • Over 20 years experience training horses and mules
  • Graduate of Oklahoma Horseshoeing School, June 2004 
 
QUALIFYING WORK EXPERIENCE
 I have worked with horses and mules since I was 15 years old.  Currently, I assist my wife in our home daycare during the days and train horses for people during the evenings and on weekends.  My methods are very similar to Downunder Horsemanship.  I spend a lot of time watching RFDTV programs and studying clinical DVD’s to continue improving my techniques. 
My passion is horses.  My career goal is to work fulltime training horses. 
References available on request.

MY TRAINING EXPERIENCE

Training methods
 My training is based on what I have learned over the years, 35 years, from working for other farms, trainers and taking lessons, showing in hand and undersaddle, carriage driving, jumping, dressage, saddle seat riding,  western pleasure, english pleasure, pleasure riding, trail riding, TB rehabilitation, conditioning for show/sales, seminars, books, magazines, training videos, training shows and also the willingness to keep learning and to be flexible. Bringing consistent, regular instructions to each individual horse, with persistence, firmness and reward, and building on that as they progress. This developes a strong working relationship that involves trust and giving which brings security to the animal and the desire to please. The foundation is good for life, but finishing takes years, and regular training. I feel confident that working with Larry will bring a great value as we will be working as a team, on our horses and also bringing them horses from my clients also. We hope to be able to provide a much needed service of horse training to the local community so that horses can move on to shows or performance events and be valuable assets to their owners. And that we will be able to provide trained farm horses in the near future for those clients who prefer to have them trained ahead of time. AT THIS TIME I AM ONLY TRAINING OUR OWN HORSES.

FEES AND REQUIREMENTS

Training is recommended 45-60 days minimum for satisfactory results as you will be satisifed with extended training, which will be retained and instilled more than short sessions of training which will be lost easier with little practice. Each horse progresses at the level of its ability and acceptance.  Call for details and availability. Read about fees and  requirements next.
FEES
$500.00 per month basic to start
additional fees only would be veterinary needs for medical attention if necessary only. No drugs are used in training or riding.
SHOES MAY BE NEEDED
TRAINING HORSE recommendations
Basic include that each animal must be in satisfactory physical condition, good health up to date on vaccinations, coggins, deworming and hoof care. Ground manners taught in advance help on riding training, to optimize your money and best interest for success highly recommended or we can take from the ground up but this is can delay riding training. 
Aso, I am looking for a protoge student who would be interested in part time work, a few hours a day, in exchange for training lessons, riding lessons, farm management instructions, breeding instructions, foal and young horse handling, up to breaking and starting, preparation and conditioning for shows and equine nutrition and general horse husbandry and maintenance.This instruction would include hands on every day, involving some labor, and horse handling daily, schedule negotiable(no pay on this, you are getting free instructions in exchange for light farm work). Must be mature and dependable to qualify and  must have some previous experience, have your own vehicle, and be local to travel here.  Possibility to trade partial labor for purchases, or breeding to our stallion.
WE are a limited board facility allowing for some training horses, no boarders only at this time, No alcohol or drugs will be allowed for any reason on our property. Call for details.
AT THIS TIME ALL OUTSIDE HORSES WILL BE TRAINED Larry Wood.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you are interested in training please email or call. We will set you up for next available opening.
479-427-0318 or pifersd@aol.com

Farm trained

see a slide show of some past horses that I have trained. Not all are pictured, too many to picture.

Training of our horses starts with handling from birth on. Our colts are haltered and handled regular and thus easy to train later, due to they are accustomed to humans and accepting of further training. They are handling with firmness and consistency, so they develope a trusting and respectful relationship. See Larry below with his kids, and how a filly we raised has taken to them, and riding first week of riding and first time to have kids around and on her also. WE have had nothing but compliments on how how easy our horses are to work with from outside trainers, due to the prelimary ground work and regular handling to instill trust and good behavior that we do with our horses here. This cannot be bought and hard to instill later. I give Larry credit for all his hard work leading up to this photo also, thank you Larry!!! This was not planned but spontaneous and a true sign that everything is working well in all areas from both of our input up to this point.