Trainers dislike having to train the horse and the client at the same time, because criticizing the one that writes the checks is not a good idea.ģ)Trainers can get a bigger name faster with WP than they can with events that require real training and skill.Ĥ)People are naturally attracted to sparkly things. It’s the artificial shit that has to be created through endless circling and canting.Ģ)Trainers can turn out a WP prospect pretty quick and even manage to make their “mid life crisis” client look good at a slow jog. Say what you like but all stock horses can walk/jog/canter naturally. Why? I have a few theories about this phenomenon.ġ)It doesn’t take as much time, training, or work to produce a WP horse as it does a reiner/barrel horse/cattle horse. A simple class with three gaits and no pattern or interaction with cows has now become the top draw at the stock horse shows. The horses are priced in the upper levels and the accoutrements will mean a second or third mortgage on your house. It has purses that beckon like tales of lost gold mines.
In fact it was considered kind of “girly” for the guys to go in a pleasure class. No one really took it seriously and BNTs didn’t exist for that particular event. WP was always the start of a career that included cattle, reining or speed events. When I was starting out WP was a class you did to get your young horses acclimated to the arena and noise at a show. Let’s talk a bit about Western Pleasure, again.
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