TRAINING AND BOARDING

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.

OUR TRAINERS

LARRY WOOD

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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.

Pictured below, Bobby Shaffer, riding first time ride, filly QT Silvers Rosette farm bred and raised filly.

Bobby Shaffer

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Bobby Shaffer of Shaffer ranch is training out of our farm also and independent. He handles most any kind of horse and assist me at our farm for training as needed. HE does a lot of colt starting and rehabilitation, as well as corrective training. Riding in the arena is done only to a point but the horses are gotting out on the road and trails as fast as possible and are trailered and taught ground manners as well.

He is also a shoer by trade, but does not do much outside unless said horse is a training horse for him or us. Bobby is a hard working person and puts many hours in the saddle for the horse, well worth the money. Each horse of course will progress at its own pace to the level of its natural ability. I have been using him for several years and have been satisfied with the work he has done for me. Bobby's experience is based on years of riding horses in the local format wth years or ranch riding, from racing to cutting, roping and dragging calves or trail riding for pleasure. All around real riding has given him a repuation known by many who continue to bring horses back to him year after year.

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 includes basic hay and grain ration. Other requirements maybe above the fee and subject to payment before departure. Each animal will be fed according to its needs, any exceptionally heavey ration maybe subject to extra charges, to maintain the animal in good health as deemed necessary and subject to payment by departure. Extra boarding requirements, private stalls, paddocks and blanketing, maybe subject to extra charges, as requested by the owner. Stallions are subject to extra fees due to the nature of their requirements and extra ordinary housing and handling needed for safety reasons of all other horses on the property and humans and for their own protection of said stallion from self injury as well. All stallions will be in private paddocks with electric fences and stalled also as needed or access to a covered shed.

additional fees only would be veterinary needs for medical attention if necessary only. No drugs are used in training or riding except in the extreme case of a first time horse for shoeing, to help them to accept the process only. Spurs maybe used as a training aide but not as a device for punishment.

SHOES MAY BE NEEDED THAT IS EXTRA.

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.

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

Board/training payments are due on time. All paying horses will get full attention and training as promised. All paying horses will be first priority over non paying. Past 60 days, a boarding/training lien can be taken out on your horse to recover losses, meaning I can sale said animal for the amount due to me if I so choose to. Timely payments are expected, only a written agreement can their be any exceptions. I have expenses and need to make payments as well, based on my income of boarders, that should be paid on the labor and housing on behalf of your animal. I am out feed expenses and work labor cost when payments are not made. Interest and late fees apply for late payments, as well as 15% commission if said animal is put up for sale. Any money owed to me will be taken and the rest if any remains will be refunded to you.

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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.