Time to Roll

I can't wait till it starts warming up. First because it's a lot more enjoyable to ride when it's warm and school will be almost over. Yes. I'm dreaming of summer already. Second because I am going to help a friend train a horse! We'll call my friend S. S has a four year old gelding that has had very little training. From what I gathered she has sat on him once. He's an Appaloosa and his name is Patches. He's taller than you would expect an appaloosa to be and S says that he's stubborn. He doesn't want to do anything you ask. I am siked! I know a four year old that's not had much training. S was complaining about not training him because she doesn't have enough time. I told her not to wait too long to start because the longer you wait the harder he'll be to train because he'll get stronger and more stuck in his ways. A four year old isn't too bad though. I'll be teaching S how to train a horse too. And with four fillies under training and learning what needes to be done I will be well prepared. It will probably go more quickly than the fillies though because I won't have to worry about how young he is. If we can get out there often enough it should get along really well.

I learned something today. I was sitting at a table at pancake breakfast that an organization called Youth For Christ(YFC) puts on at my high school and a girl I know that owns horses and has like seventeen horses where she lives (not S) comes to my table. We get to talking about horses... of course... Turns out her mom is a horse trainer. Hence why she has seventeen horses. She is training four perchons in driving and the rest are mostly quarter horses that she trains in barrel racing. I think I should get a hold of her and see if we can work something out.
That would be great for me. I learned barrel racing from riding. I've never had a teacher and I really wish I did. Unless you count my horse as a teacher. And learning how to train a barrel horse from an actual teacher would also be a bonus.