Enos Horse Training Atkins, Arkansas - training

Building Long Lasting Foundations Through Natural Horsemanship! We start horses with Natural Horsemanship methods. We use a gentle approach. We are as firm as nessacery but light as possible when training horses. The objective of training should be to end up with a safe, calm dependable horse that will willingly do what we ask it to do, when we ask it to do it. I believe in establishing a solid foundation on a horse. Like the foundation under a house, solid and correct reining is essential to avoiding riding problems and helps in solving difficulties should they arise. A solid foundation includes softness in all movements of a horse. We start horses from the ground up. Ground training and round pen work prepares a horse for work under saddle by teaching them to relax and to respond when pressure is applied. The result is a horse that is a willing partner. Colt Starting Designed to build trust and confidence in the horse, the colt-starting program will allow the horse to overcome the natural flight instinct and to view humans as leaders that can be trusted. The horse will be exposed to the basics of becoming a riding horse and helped to accept these things in as stress free a manner as possible. The horse will develop a foundation of skills that enables him to be comfortable in the human world. We work with horses for a couple weeks on the ground with ground work and then the rest is mounted work with working on reining and cues. Some horses may get more riding or less riding depending on how quickly they advance. We teach horses to be soft and respond to pressure on the ground before mounting. We ususally pony horses from another horse to get him used to the environment before riding them out. Some times it is just safer to have help. We work as a team when we introduce the rider for the first time. The first couple rides, many times are with one of us in the center repeating the commands that the horse has learn on the lounge line as the rider applies the signals. Horses then will be rode in the arena then through pastures, around cattle, and we take horses on trail rides, through streams, up hills, down hills and everywhere. We try to expose horses to as much as possible. As we explained we start horses using natural horsemanship methods, which means we do not be rough with your horse or force your horse into doing anything. We take our time and do things slow and naturally for the horse to understand. We will not get on a horses back until they are ready. They must be responding to everything well on the ground before they are safe to get on. We do this for our safety and your horses. All horses are different and it depends on the individual horse on how far along they get. Just about all horses get rode during the 30 days... but there are just some, that may have problems in a specific area, that need more time. On a normal learning horse that doesn't give us much problems we usually do about 8 to 15 days of groundwork and then put 22 to 15 rides on them. Sure life would be easy if all we had to do is get them to accept the saddle and rider, but there is more too it than that. It takes time to put all the maneuvers on a horse, such as backing, stopping good, sidepassing, moving frontquarters and hindquarters, and getting them to stay in a walk, trot or lope until you tell them to change, letting them see things outside the arena and on the trail, plus desensitizing them to as much as possible. But we really encourage owners to let us put at least 60 days on them. Especially for people that have lack of experience with riding colts. So if you want someone to just hop on your horses and take off, you've come to the wrong place. But if you want to get back a quiet willing partner that will carry you through a lifetime of enjoyment, then give us a call let us get started on your horse. Trailer Loading - Your horse can learn to go willingly and trustingly into any trailer without you having to climb in ahead of him, even if he has developed a fear of the trailer due to poor previous handling. Our trailer-loading program can take your horse from resistance and fear to willingness and confidence. Horses that have had bad or frightening experiences can overcome them and return to easy trailer loading. Groundwork Lessons - If you want you horse to be respectful on the ground we will give you lessons on how to establish better groundmanners on your horse. If your horse is pushy, will run past you when leading, never pays attention to you, or so on, he is lacking good ground training. So come over and let us teach you how to get your horse to be a willing, respectful partner on the ground...which will transfer into the saddle when you ride too. Must have some experience with horses before participating. We take care of your horse like he's our own. You don't have to worry when your horse is with us... They get everything they need and maybe a little more. For colt starting no horses under age of 2 and over age of 5. We don't ride problem horses anymore, just colt starting and groundmanners. We have the right to refuse to train your horse. We will be adding roping training to our program someday! Click on training video below to view videos of training and some horses trained. Training Video
30 Days of Training -- $550 Weekly Training -- $125 Yearling Halter Training and Handling Weekly -- $100 Groundwork Lesson for You to work Your Horse -- $25hr Riding Lessons -- $20hr * all prices include feed and board we make sure we get a full 30 days on your horse, if we have to miss a day we make it up at the end, or do double training the next day. Some weekends we work horses and some we don't (we have our own horses to work), all days will be made up to get your full 30 days. Half of training fees will need to be paid up front when we recieve you horse, other half when you horse is picked up. If we are keeping your horse more than a month, you will pay at the end of the first month, the remaining left for that month and half of the next month... and so on... No Studs! No Broncs!
Horses Trained in 2009 Chance 4yr TWH Gelding Walk That Walk Ranch Berryville, Ar Sixshooter 2yr AQHA Gelding Sold to Clay Chronister Hector, Ar Taz 11yr APHA Gelding Grumps Farm Charleston, Ar *Thunder* 4yr APHA Gelding Grumps Farms Charleston, Ar Blue 3yr APHA Gelding The Jones's Cabot, Ar Thunder 4yr APHA Gelding Grumps Farm Charleston, Ar Ginger 5yr ASPC Mare Diamond Bar E Sold To Dover, Ar *Wrangler* 2yr AQHA Gelding Terry Russell Russellville, Ar *Prince* 5yr Arabian/QH Gelding The Holmes Jacksonville, Ar *Baby* 1yr QH Colt Hector, Ar *Levi* 4yr AQHA Gelding Tracy Freeman Pottsville, Ar *Sandru* 2yr APHA Filly Cathy Cheetum Dover, Ar *Becca* 3yr AQHA Filly The Holmes Jacksonville, Ar *Star* 3yr AQHA Gelding Bette Poynter Dover, Ar *Sierra* 3yr Quarter Pony Filly Jamie Duvall Hattieville, Ar *Cash* 5yr APHA Gelding Grumps Farm Elaine Moody Charleston, Ar *Sammy* 13yr TWH Mare Walk That Walk Ranch Deltona Tibbets Berryville, Ar
Horses Trained in 08 *Dandy* 2yr APHA Gelding Cathy Cheetum Dover, Ar *Skip* 2yr APHA Gelding Diamond Bar E Sold to Jeremy Ashby *Roper* 4yr QH Gelding Bryan Freeman Hector, Ar *Cash* 6yr TWH Mare Deltona Tibbets Berryville, Ar *Snickers* 4yr QH Gelding Kathy Baker Moreland, Ar *Jet* 2yr APHA Gelding Elaine Moody Charleston, Ar *Night* 2yr TWH Filly Deltona Tibbets Berryville, Ar *Lily* 2yr AQHA Filly Rob Cambell Moreland, Ar *Cocoa* 2 yr QH Filly Diamond Bar E Sold to Erica Upton *Cowgirl* 1yr AQHA Filly Carol Townsend Hector, Ar *Star* 2yr Quarter Pony Jamie Duvall Hattieville, Ar *Chaco* 2yr APHA Gelding Owned by Tracy Tomlin Pottsville, Ar *Pedro* 3yr Quarter/Mustang Gelding Enos Horse Training Sold To Monica Looney Searcy, Ar *Sampson* 2yr Quarter/Mustang Gelding Owned by Kristie Simpson *Ebony* 4yr TWH Mare Owned by Deltona Tibbets Berryville, Ar *Deiago* 2yr AQHA Gelding New Blaine, Ar *Slim 2yr Paint Gelding Cabot, Ar ***Mr. Boone Joe* 2yr Quarter Horse Gelding Diamond Bar E See him on Our Horses page Chance 2yr TWH Gelding Deltona Tibbets Berryville, Ar Blue 2yr APHA Gelding Cabot, Ar Buckles 3yr Quarter Pony Mare Diamond Bar E Sold to Jamie Jordan Lena 7yr Quarter Horse Mare Diamond Bar E Sold to Pat Patton Prince 4yr Arabian Gelding Terry Russell Russellville, Ar Q 5yr MFT Mare Delphine Williams London, Ar Blu** 4yr TWH Gelding Deltona Tibbets Berryville, Ar

Trained in 2010

"No hour of life is wasted, that's spent in the saddle." Winston Churchill