Professional Training
From green horses to show horses, we tailor custom programs for you and your equine partner.
Benefits of Professional Training
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Horses learn through repetition and consistency and are athletes who need conditioned regularly. Being a part of a program enables you to keep your athlete working year round, without compromising your own time.
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Horses are a financial investment and need to be maintained in peak performance as to not depreciate. With good training and a show record, often times horses will appreciate in value.
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We want horses who are willing and relaxed. A foundation that is put in with patience and love encourages an equine partner who needs less maintenance and tune-ups in the long haul.
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You have the time to provide the consistency, but we all hit roadblocks sometimes. Training contacts can be used to help troubleshoot any problems.
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It is important to us that we have willing and comfortable athletes, so we have varying therapies scheduled regularly to ensure optimal performance. This can include chiropractic, massage, acupuncture or any veterinary maintenance needed.
We are fortunate to have CSU Equine Sports Medicine to offer world class performance veterinary medicine among the many we can readily call out and have report with.
Philosophy
We believe in a classical approach, which involves extensive flatwork, use of cavaletti and gynmastics. It is our belief that a course consists of 10 individual jumps, which will test riders in varying ways. These tests are isolated in unique exercises and mastered through increasing the responsiveness from our horses to our aids. As such, we do not do course work often except for in preparation for a show immediately coming up.
Horses require consistency to perform at their best and should be respected as athletes themselves. We recommend horses are exercised five times per week minimum, with longer recovery and rest scheduled semi-annually. Our training is booked on an individual contact basis and can be tailored to meet your needs to either maintain weekly work, as well as tune up your horse.
Our experience
At Four Winds, we have professionals with an extensive combined experience of over 80 years around the nation at all levels of the Show Jumping sport, as well as international experience. Be assured that your horse will be getting a well rounded education that will develop a responsive, kind performance horse. They will receive extensive ground work (longing) and be attentive and respectful in hand as well as under saddle.
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Green Horses
Four Winds has ample experience with sport horses from foaling, to being saddled for the first time through building show competitors at the upper levels of our sport. We also have had great success restarting thoroughbreds from the track for the show arena.
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Show Horses
Horse require consistency to perform at their best, and so we offer part and full time training options to help you keep your horses at peek performance. We also offer individual rides in case your horse needs the occasional tune up.
All training rides can be scheduled through our online booking system.