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    Take Your TIME

    Mar 12, 2019 5 minutes
    BY HAVENS SCHATT AND FRED COMMISSAIRE, WITH TRICIA CONAHAN

    Our motto when starting young horses over fences is: Take the time to let them evolve to be the best horses they can be. Bringing along a young prospect is an amazing and rewarding journey, but it must be done through a slow, methodical, reliable process that allows him to correct his early mistakes and build confidence. Youngsters thrive in our structured training program at Milestone; they all go to the same “school.” Every day, we try to build a bit of confidence and add just one more step.

    It’s important that a young horse knows there is a routine: He gets fed at seven, goes in the paddock at some point and knows when he gets ridden. We set our schedule so we can try to keep the same time frames every day. Young

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