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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not get your own horse or get into competing. Vet bills and entry fees and travel will be a huge money suck.

Just let her take weekly lessons on the horses there. If she wants to lease, let her much stalls and do other barn work to pay for it. [/quote]

*muck* stalls, I meant.

Also: making her do barn work is a good way to weed out the dilettante rider from the Horse Girl. Horse Girls will do whatever it takes to be around horses. Dilettantes just like the trappings of riding and like to do it when it’s convenient. Make it less convenient for her and you’ll see if she really NEEDS to ride.

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8:27 PP and I agree wholeheartedly with this.  I've had more than a few girls come out for a day with the horses thinking they are going to ride the entire day, which is NOT what I do or how I start kids.  The first day is spent learning to safely approach, halter, and lead a horse, pick their feet out, assess health and start learning how to properly lunge a horse using Natural Horsemanship techniques (harder than it looks).  We then clean tack, fill feed, stack hay, scoop poop and other things that need done in order to keep a farm running and animals (all animals, not just the horses) healthy.  I've had one girl stick it out.   [/quote]

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