Brego and More Training

To be warned I'm going to rant just a little bit these next two posts.

I got a call Saturday from my trainer. He was calling about Brego. When we talked at the horse fair he admitted that Brego was the first horse in a long time to actually spook him out. Great! Just what I want, a horse that actually scares the trainer. I figured Brego may need another couple weeks put on him to make sure he's safe.

Lo and behold, that's what the trainer was calling to talk to me about. I could go ahead and take Brego "as is" but apparently he's not following his nose very well. He's also not going at all at a lope. He's barely going at a trot and doing some naughty stuff, like dropping his shoulder and not following his nose.


When we dropped Brego off I warned the trainer that he wasn't very smart. The trainer laughed and said most people talk up their horses even when they arent' as smart as they really are. I'll be totally up front and honest with anyone getting on my horses. If I'm not willing to get on, I'm going to make sure that whoever DOES get on knows everything I know.

The trainer called it "mental blocks" instead of being dumb. I guess that's the politically correct way to call it. I was a bit disappointed but I know that I need to follow through and put an additional 15 days on Brego to make sure that he gets it. I'd thought about sending Maverick back to the trainers just to put a refersher but he's going pretty well. That and I don't really have the money to put another horse through training. I hadn't figured on putting Brego in 45 days of training but I guess if that's what it takes, that will be what it is.

As a two year old Brego was sent to a terrible trainer. He was there for at least 30 days but I don't believe he was treated well or was really trained. When he came home, he bucked the owner off. I'm afraid the "trainer" blew Brego's mind and that's why my trainer is having a hard time breaking through to him.

I'm just a bit disappointed. Here I am putting $550 + $275 in to a junk horse. I know... how dare I call Brego a junk horse. But really, he has poor confirmation, no pedigree (even if he is registered which I doubt), no brains (sorry, telling the truth), and fairly fine boned so he'll never be a true brute horse.

For the amount of money I'm going to sink in to him, I could have bought a really good horse at yesterday's auction. That's my next blog that I need to vent about. Everything seems to revolve around dollars and cents and I just can't seem to figure out how to make it work for me.

I'm headed over the to the trainers on Tuesday to try Brego out and then make my decision. I've already decided that even though he's not going at a lope (and I won't lope him any time soon), that I'll go ahead and put the extra time on him to make sure that he actually understands what he's supposed to.

I was willing to put him in to training and willing to give him a second chance in life. He would have ended up at Kramers Auction as a three year old, barely handled gelding that was skin and bones. He would have been No Valued and who knows what would have happened then. So I guess if it takes him an additional 15 days to break through that "mental block" then so be it.

Sometimes you in with rescues and sometimes you don't. I think I lost on Brego.

So be it.