Eddie-Joe Young

Cowboy or Ninja? Training concepts!

Farrier work of all types.

                                                                                                               

I am a second generation farrier. I perform a variety of farrier work including but not limited to, draft horses, walking horses (flat shod and toe weights---no stacks) race horses, miniatures, mules, and a zebra named referee. Every farrier has the type of horse they most prefer to work; my passion and area of expertise is working with laminitis, founder, or navicular. There is nothing like taking a horse from the verge of death, and proving there is life after founder. If you are within an hour drive, or can make the travel worthwhile, I would be more than happy to add you to my rotation. I have taken a training position in Gulfport Mississippi behind the County Farm Arena. Strasser and natural horse trimming available.

 

Need your horse trained?

 

I am an all around trainer. That means that I teach horses the foundation that all horses should know to have an effective career. No matter what the discipline they will go on to excel at, every horse needs to learn the same base lessons, I went to college for photography but if I was a sports photographer, a wedding photographer, or the paparazzi, I would still need to learn how to focus the lense. In my training program I build the camera and you focus the lense.

Breaking and training.

                                                  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 First let me say I hate to use the word broke; I do not want to break a horse, I want to become a team with the horse. Every horse can be broke­­--hell they broke cool hand Luke, but the end result of that breaking was unusable, and Luke was still euthanized. Cool hand Luke was only a movie but it illustrated the point, they had a failure to communicate. Training conflict and communication breakdowns are the cause of almost every bronco in the world. When I train a horse, I like him to do a variety of exercises like, jump, ride bridleless, bow, team penn, travel collected in the first three gates, drive and pull a cart. These different disciplines allow the horse to not only have an established line of communication, but develop a pattern of trusting my guidance. The emphasis in my program and training style is to create a humane environment, with solid fundamentals, that result in a horse that will do anything from climbing in a row boat to jumping over the riding lawnmower. When I was in college I read a story about a horse that was tried for murder in the wild-west mining town of Bodie, California.  A boy went into a saloon and was beaten up by a bully. The boy walked outside the saloon and then reentered with his mare, asking the bully to hit him just one more time. The bully bashed him to the ground, and the old mare pawed the brute to death. That is the kind of bond that every horse owner wants. However, first your horse has to reach the point were you can handle and ride the horse without the constant fear of danger and bodily injury. I will get your horse to that point so you can enjoy and bond with your new partner.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Need A Youth Rider?

Contact me I will find you your next junior world barrel racer. I know everyone reading this has a seen a teenage boy or girl riding at a horse show or barrel race that excelled in talent, but lacked in the department of having that high caliber horse. These are the type of ninjas i love to work with the type that will mow grass to pay for a lesson, or fix fences on saturday. Its easy to recognize these talented up and comers by the way they say, "yes sir, and yes mam and excuse me." They learn principles like, "when everything is going wrong go back to the last thing you did right." If you have a horse you think could draw those big junior world checks contact me i know some riders that can make it happen.