Chapter 1: Welcome!

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Welcome back to Katching Up With Katie.

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Today’s a little bit different. We have a guest. We have Miss Stephanie Bean here to just chat and answer some of y’all’s questions. I mean,

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I haven’t meant to hide you or anything. I’ve had you in all these videos, and everyone’s like, “When are we going to actually get to meet your new trainer?” So, this is that video.

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This is that video because Running Springs has now hired its own in-house trainer to start our two-year-olds and keep our mares legged up, and all those things.

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We’re going to get into that, but this is that “get to know Stephanie” video.

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She has so graciously joined us. So, Stephanie, hello. Would you like to give us just a little rundown?

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Well, hold on. I’ve got questions written down in my handy-dandy Moose on the Loose notebook that you can find in katievanslyke.net store. So anyway, I’ve got some questions written down.

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If you want to just give us a little bit about you, and then we’ll get into horse stuff, like where you’re from.

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I’m originally from Clarkston, Michigan. It’s kind of like an hour north of Detroit, so definitely cold compared to here.

Chapter 2: Stephanie’s Background

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And that’s the beauty of your first week here. How cold was it when you left? I think it was like -17.

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No. No. And there was like a whole month of -20s. Can you even ride in that?

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It depends on what your indoors are like. If it’s insulated and heated, a lot of places are heated up there because at some point that becomes lung damage.

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Yes. Yeah, I think they say below like 20 degrees is lung damage. But we’d ride if it was 20.

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Right. Well, when you got here, I think there was this little blissful week of 60s and sun. Then we went back to cold for like a week, then we went to warm, and now we’re back to cold.

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So, we’re just kind of yo-yoing, but it’s still not as cold as— No, it’s refreshing. It’s very nice.

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Awesome. Okay, let’s just get into the horse stuff, which I have, again, questions from Facebook.

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I kind of put a little post up. I was like, “What do you want to know about Stephanie?” And y’all are nosy, so a lot of your personal questions we’re not asking. This is horse questions.

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So, I guess let’s start. Let’s not get into training necessarily yet. Just what’s your start with horses and your personal riding background prior to going pro?

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Basically, I started riding when I was nine. I started in the Hunter Jumpers, mainly because my mom trail rode horses and my cousin was in the Hunter Jumpers as well, so we kind of rode together at the same barn. It was fun.

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I did that until I was 12 or 13, something like that. Then I had a horse in my backyard at that point, so I quit the hunter jumper stuff.

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From there, I did a lot of 4-H, a lot of open shows. Always in the hunter stuff?

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No, I kind of switched. I dabbled in everything when I was really young. I tried barrels. I stayed in the hunter jumper field for the most part, but then I kind of

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got sucked into the all-around horses, like the pleasure stuff and hunter under saddle. Gotcha.

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So, did you ride in a lesson barn, or did you have your own horse at that point?

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I had my own horse at that point in my backyard. I basically would just come home from school and get on and ride. It was just kind of what you did.

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Was it a Quarter Horse? No, it was an Appaloosa.

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I know. I also grew up— Did you? I did. I grew up with POAs. Okay, basically the same thing.

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It’s like, take a crazy Appaloosa, make it a pony, make it a mare.

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I wish I had a POA. I wish I had a pony, but I had a full-size one.

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Well, the POA is like, “Hey, we’re going to start the morning with halter and showmanship. Then we’re going to western, then English, then we’re going to jump. Then we’re going to do costume,

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and then we’re going to do barrels and poles and keyhole and all those things.” And you’re done by like 11:00 at night. We’re doing everything in one day.

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That’s what I grew up with. When you’re young, that’s easy to do. But can you imagine doing that now? No, thank you.

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So, you grew up doing 4-H and a little bit of everything. Did you show at all prior to going pro?

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Not necessarily. I just kind of knew my situation. I wasn’t in a place to be able to afford to show a lot.

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I knew from an early age that I wanted to be a horse trainer, so I just went and started working for someone. Yeah.

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So, when was that? How old were you when you started going pro, or when did you swap over from showing for yourself to training?

Chapter 3: Transition into Professional Training

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I want to say I was maybe 20 or 21. Okay. I think I had a brief stint of working with racehorses before that.

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You skipped over a whole section. You just casually said you worked with racehorses. Go back.

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I want to say I was like 19 or 20 when I did the racehorse thing. I was just kind of brought into it. I knew a lady

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who exercised racehorses at a tiny track in northern Michigan, in Mount Pleasant.

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I was like, “Wow, she makes good money.” As a poor teenager, I thought she made really good money. She rode like 20 horses, it took her like three hours, and she didn’t have to work the rest of the day.

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So, I started doing that a little bit. I started on the backside, mostly saddling, bridling, and putting the riders up.

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I didn’t ride at that track. It was a little terrifying to learn how to ride a racehorse on the track. I would imagine.

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It’s a lot.

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But I ended up working for a private farm with racehorses after that, and they had their own little track. So, I started the babies.

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It was Thoroughbreds? Yes, Thoroughbreds.

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At the Mount Pleasant track, they did race Quarter Horses, Arabs, and Appaloosas. It was a little backyard, but it was cool at the time.

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So, I rode Thoroughbreds at a home track, not at the racetrack, which I feel like is a huge difference. The actual racetrack is crazy.

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So, it was me, Matt, Nate, Abigail. We came back from a horse show last year,

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and we went to Keeneland for a day. We stopped at the racetrack, and they let us go down and be right as the horses entered.

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I mean, it’s 40 horses entering at once and going every which way. The track is so wide, and depending on where you are, you’re doing something different. It’s wild.

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It’s wild. And I think the racehorses are why I was like, “No, I have to go do show horses. There’s no way.”

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When you take one to the track, you back it off however far, then turn around and it just goes. They’re trained like,

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“This is the routine, this is what we do.” They kind of stop when they want to stop. Some of them you can pull up, and sometimes they don’t.

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Oh no. Did you have any accidents? I probably came off like once a day in the beginning. Oh no.

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That’s why you had to start when you were 19. Yes. I would not bounce like that.

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Well, to be fair, when you wear those vests, it’s way easier. You kind of bounce back up like landing on a cloud.

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Are they that padded? They don’t feel that padded, really. I think everybody switched to the air vests now.

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I’ve talked about this with my best friend Rebecca because her little girl jumps, so she’s been looking into them. You clip them on, and when you fall off, they inflate.

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But it’s like $400 a vest. That’s wild. Every time it inflates, you have to get it reloaded. It doesn’t just go back to normal.

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That’s crazy. So yeah, that’s a lot.

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Okay, so we moved past the racehorses. Then you went pro. Did you go straight into Quarter Horse all-arounders?

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Yes, I did. I worked for a lady in Wisconsin who did buckskins and Quarter Horses. That’s when you saw Soapie?

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Actually, no. That was later. She had a really nice farm in central Wisconsin that I worked at, and I got hooked on the buckskin stuff.

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I never realized how big the color breed associations are within AQHA and APHA.

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There’s AQHA, but there’s also the Buckskin Horse Association, the Palomino Horse Association, and now they have their own associations.

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I didn’t realize how big those were. In different parts of the country, they’re bigger. Where I’m from, the buckskin stuff is pretty big.

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I feel like palominos have fallen off a little bit, but buckskins have two different associations.

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So, it was cool. You could go to two different world shows, show your horse a lot, get them pretty broke, and still be rookie green eligible in AQHA and then go dabble in that.

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That was pretty fun. Yeah, that is one way to look at it. So, that was the beginning part of your training career.

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Did you show as a trainer, or were you more of a coach behind the scenes?

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Definitely more of a coach, but I did show quite a bit. There are always horses to school.

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I did a lot of hunter under saddle, showed some in trail, but most of my clients were really successful in horsemanship, equitation, and showmanship.

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A little bit in ranch riding as well. My clients were going for the all-around, so we were showing all day long.

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Especially with all the levels of youth and amateur, you’re standing in that pen all day.

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Yeah, that’s very hard. And I guess that’s why a lot of show barns are pleasure-only. They might have one client who does other classes, but they usually have other trainers for that.

Chapter 4: My Horse Program & Riding Style

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When I go to a show, like with Aaron Moses, who shows and trains my stallion Denver, he’s mostly a western pleasure barn.

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There’s occasionally an outlier, but generally they have other trainers for that because he’s on a horse, off a horse, on a horse, off a horse for that one specialty.

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There are so many horses, especially at those big shows. So, that’s interesting. Yeah.

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And then have you had any... But not to say that my horses are only western pleasure horses. That’s a misconception a lot of people have.

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I think when I bought Denver and started saying he was my western pleasure stallion,

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because that’s what he started off in, everyone was like, “She’s a western pleasure rider.” I’ve never shown a western pleasure horse, literally ever.

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When I had Beyoncé, and she’s a pleasure horse, I just showed her in trail. My mom showed her in pleasure. I’ve never shown a pleasure horse ever in my life.

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So, it’s very funny that people consider me a pleasure person because I am truly a hunter under saddle, all-around person.

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I think that’s what I gear my babies toward. I would love for them to start off in the pleasure futurities possibly, but I’m so much more geared toward the all-around, leaning more toward the hunter under saddle and the big ponies.

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So, I just think it’s funny that people say western pleasure. I feel like you have mostly big horses at the barn. Everything’s kind of huntery.

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I know, which is funny. So, I’m with you on that. I feel like we have a very similar taste in horses.

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Yes. Okay, I touched on that earlier. When she started here, she was like,

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“I really like that buckskin mare. I used to watch her show.” So, you saw Sophie in action? Yep, I did. So, you kind of had some run-ins with a couple of mine.

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And then obviously, I think you already knew of Kennedy VS The First Lady. What were some of the other ones? Buttercup. You knew of Buttercup?

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Yeah, because I wanted to buy her years ago, but I was too poor at the time. Gotcha. All the buckskin mares I wanted.

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Well, this can kind of be a little segue because you have the perlino mare that I want. I do.

Chapter 5: Stephanie’s Mare Pinky & Breeding Plans

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She unfortunately isn’t here because I didn’t have any stalls. She has a mare that is due this year, right?

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Mm-hmm, April 11th. Give us a little update on her. What’s her name? How old is she? Who is she bred to?

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Her name is Pinky. She’s bred to Lazy Loper.

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I bought her as a yearling. I randomly saw her for sale one day and was like, “I have to go buy her.” I drove to Indiana, picked her up, and took her home.

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I wasn’t even looking for a horse. I really didn’t have the money for a horse, and I just went and bought her.

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When I got there, she was lame, but I took her home anyway. Her feet hadn’t been done in like 12 to 14 weeks.

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The people were super nice. They said if she got home and was still lame, I could send her back. But she was fine.

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So, she’s perlino, if you don’t know what that is. Cremello, actually, because— Perlino is like the darker base version, and cremello is the red base.

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Yeah, she’s like a champagne, white, glimmery unicorn with blue eyes.

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She is a unicorn, for sure. And she’s western pleasure bred, right?

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Yes, which is very rare. It’s hard to find a cremello that’s truly western pleasure bred and not more foundation or ranch type.

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Her sire is super western pleasure, and on the dam side she’s by Exquisite Zippo.

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So basically, she has all the really good palomino lines crossed together.

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Usually, you’ll see a cremello where one side is strong, but the other side isn’t very modern or competitive.

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So, it’s really cool that she’s pretty modern bred on both sides. Right. I will be convincing her to cross her on one of my boys because they’re red-based.

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Doesn’t she always throw cream? Yes. She’ll always throw a buckskin, palomino, or smoky black.

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So, she could never have another cremello? She could if bred to something that also carries the cream gene, like another palomino or buckskin.

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So basically, if she was bred to either of my boys, who are red roans, it could be a palomino or a palomino roan.

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That sounds like a good idea to me.

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I will say though, have you ever seen a palomino roan in person? They kind of don’t look that great sometimes. They just don’t look shiny.

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I had one before, and it always looked dull.

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I like them more when it’s like Kirby, where the roan is more in the flanks and not all over.

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Yeah, a little darker. I like that better. So, we’ll see if we can make that happen.

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She’s boarded elsewhere right now just because I had no stalls. This ended up being kind of last minute.

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I remember when we were like, “Hey, you can bring a horse,” and you were like, “Well, I have a mare that’s bred.”

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And I was like, “That is the worst possible scenario.” Anything else could have happened.

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So, that’s all you have right now, just Pinky? Okay. What are your plans for her baby?

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I’ll probably sell it. I would like to keep one out of her, but it has to be the right one. So, we’ll see what comes out.

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What would be your ideal? My ideal is a buckskin filly. A buckskin filly.

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And I’m pretty sure it would be a filly. You said you’re pretty sure?

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I think Lazy Loper might be homozygous black, but we don’t know for sure on filly or colt.

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She’s had one before, and it was a colt, so I feel like I’m due for a filly.

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The last one was a colt, so that’s what I’m banking on. No, it doesn’t work that way.

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Because I would be due my order. I’ve been asking for a filly with some white for five minis, and I’ve gotten five solid colts.

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Have they all been red?

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No. I’ve had a silver black that turned gray, a red that turned gray, a bay, and then the donkey.

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He had the most spotted-up dad ever and came out solid. So yeah, it doesn’t work that way.

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Well, she’s going to get her order, and I’m going to be mad.

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So, that’s kind of where you’re at now. You’ve been training for a while, and you have a mare you breed and would like to keep a baby from.

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As far as your personal goals, you’re looking to stay more in the coaching and training realm?

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If I keep one of her babies, I would definitely want to show it and eventually have it as a future broodmare.

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Smart.

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Okay, speaking of breeding, because you have this one mare that you’re breeding and, you know, you’re hoping to keep a baby, what is kind of your background in breeding? Because I

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know you’ve worked and foaled out quite a few, which is amazing, because it’s come in handy this year a couple of times where, I mean, you know, not to bring up sad situations, but like

Chapter 6: Foaling Experience

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when Charlotte had her baby and I’m having to rush it to the vet, like I was so grateful that I was able to be like, “Do you have Charlotte? Okay, good,” and like head out, you know?

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Like, that was just such a godsend that there was someone there that — Oh yeah. Like, had the situation at home handled, so then I could go to the vet with this baby.

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So, give us a little update — not update — so give us a little background on your breeding.

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Well, I feel like I’ve worked for — Yeah.

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I’ve worked for people throughout the years and just always kind of been around it. I feel like I’ve had a handful of foals, mares to foal out,

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a foal out for other people, my own, some Arabs, a lot of Appaloosas, a lot of Quarters.

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Any Thoroughbreds when you were doing the races?

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No, actually, no Thoroughbreds. I was around lots of young, but I was never like, “You’re foaling this out.”

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Yeah, gotcha. So, when did you kind of get into that side of things where you’re like training but also foaling out for people?

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Probably like within the last like eight years, I would say. It kind of happened together. Breeding has always been like something I’ve been really

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interested in since I was young, and I’ve always like wanted to breed my own and stuff like that. So, it’s just kind of like a little passion side project.

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So, same. Yep.

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But that’s been awesome because you’ve gotten to be there for a couple of the babies. And then, you know, like I said, in that kind of really stressful situation, like it was amazing having someone to kind of like fall back on.

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Yeah. So, that’s going to be — you’re going to be pretty handy going forward. I’m excited for more babies. I’m like, why is there such a big lull in between?

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There wasn’t supposed to be. Today was Benedict’s due date, and he’s been here for a minute. That seems crazy. Yeah, he’s been here for a while. Yeah.

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So, one of the questions I’ve been getting a lot is, are you here for a good time or a long time?

Chapter 7: Why I Brought a Trainer In-House

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I think both. I think both.

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A lot of people have been like, “Is she just here to start your twos and then heading out, or is she like here? Like, is she like your trainer forever?”

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I’m like, “Forever, forever. Forever, forever.” You know, this is such — I’m putting you in a weird position here, because

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like I’m technically your employer, so you’re going to be like, “Yeah, I like you a lot.” But I’m like, I feel like we’ve hit it off so, so well and fast. And like, it’s just like I felt — I have felt such an ease.

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I feel like my horses are just like really well taken care of in your hands, and I feel like you’ve taken a weight off of me being able to like get back into riding and not have to worry about the like hard part.

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And I say that as I’ve always loved the hard part. I’ve always loved the like daily riding and the like, the like every piece of it. And I used to ride like four

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to six horses a day. And it just got to where I had like zero time to do that. And so then it was like, if I can’t do it fully, I didn’t feel like I could really do it at all.

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Right. And so, like I really felt that last year where I’d ride Kennedy and Ethel, and I’d feel like I

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was pretty consistent for like two weeks, and then I’d have to leave. And then I’d get back, and you know, when a horse is coming back into work and they’re not like steady Eddie,

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two weeks off after only being on two weeks, you’re back to like — it’s rough, ground zero. And so, that’s what I felt like I just kept going back and forth in between last year.

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And so, being able to hop on when I have time and, you know, have someone there to say, “Hey,

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you know, do this or that,” and get me back into things without it being so stressful and feeling like I’m there on my own, it’s been very, very nice.

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So much of training is just like consistency. And like, if you look at why a lot of people send their horses to trainers, it’s just because they don’t have the time to do it every day. It’s not that they couldn’t do it themselves. They just don’t have the time to commit to it.

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So, and I’ve learned so much. So, I look forward to sharing more of like the two-year-old,

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you know, journeys and starting them and putting their first rides on. But watching the things that she does with the two-year-olds prior to riding definitely made me realize,

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when I was starting horses myself, the holes that they probably have from me starting them, because I’m like, “I didn’t do that.”

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I’m like, “I just threw a saddle on one day when I felt like it.” There’s so many different ways to do everything,

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though. Like, you could go and look at how somebody else starts it too, and it’s like completely different. But you go like, “Oh, that’s cool.”

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You know, mind you, this is like Annie’s 11. So, the last — Oh no. I started one — and I did a lot more with the second one than I did with the first one. I’ve

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only started like two in the last 10 years. I did a little bit more when I was a teenager,

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but when I was starting Stevie, which was in 2022, so I mean, that long ago, I did a lot of groundwork with her, but I feel like I got lucky with those two.

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It was Annie and Stevie. They just were kind of born broke. Yes.

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Like, when I put a saddle on them, they were just like, “Okay.” Those ones are so nice. They’re so easy because you can just saddle them a couple times and jump on and go.

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And that’s what I did. And so, I think that just kind of made me feel like I was a little better than I actually was. But I’ve learned a lot already, and it’s only been a few weeks.

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And so, I’m really — I mean, that’s kind of the purpose here.

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I mean, I don’t think I’ve really talked about it in this sit-down, but the purpose of Stephanie being here and us having a trainer on site is a multitude of reasons.

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So, one, it’s starting the two-year-olds at home, and that just gives me that much more control.

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Not that I’m trying to like micromanage, but, you know, in the past, you send them off. And sure,

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I send them to people that I trust, but as they’re growing still, I like to be able to see, okay,

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do we need to do anything different with their feet? Do we need to change their feed? Do we need to give them time off? Do we need to do this, then that?

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Because as they’re growing, those situations or those decisions have to be made. And so, I want to be the one kind of like in on the decision-making more so, rather than just like sending them off and letting someone do that all for me.

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And I like the fact that we can make really tailored decisions based on the horse itself.

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Yeah. And not to say that wasn’t happening, but I also can’t — I can’t justify sending six

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horses or having eight horses in training in different spots and paying full board and full training, whatever. It is absolutely an economical decision to have someone here.

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It makes a lot of sense if you’re going to be keeping a handful of babies every year. Like, you’re already feeding, you’re already boarding them.

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Right. It made so much sense monetarily. Yeah.

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To have someone here, and that was actually a really big portion of it. It’s like, hey, when do we decide to not full board, full feed, full training? You know, I’m using

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my farrier and all that good stuff, and your vets and everything. And that’s huge. You know, you have a good relationship with your vet, and that just makes decisions easier.

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And then we can decide, hey, which — because I’m keeping multiple — I can say, out of these four, like let’s use my yearlings for an example. I have two stud colts and two fillies. I can say,

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“You know what? This western stud colt I think is actually going to be a stud colt. The other one, I think he’d be better gelded.” But let’s geld him and still put 60 to 90 days on him,

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and then we’re able to sell to a show home and hopefully be profitable. I mean, that’s the point of it, is to try to make it a business.

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And so, we can kind of judge that, and we can say, “Hey, I think this one just is maturing a little later. Let’s wait and hold it back.”

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And then this one, you know what? It just doesn’t fit me personally, and this is for me to have a show horse, so we’re going to sell this one, or whatever. Yeah.

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So, it just allows us to make a little bit more tailored decisions, in my opinion, and I’m really excited for that.

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And to be able to like watch the yearlings, two-year-olds, if we have any three-year-olds at home — right now, we’re riding Kennedy, Ethel, and, you know, potentially more in the future.

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Or Gracie. We can’t forget about Gracie. Little Gracie.

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So, it’s opened us up to not only, like, within the breeding and the keeping of babies business, but also the content business. And yeah, you know, sharing all that is super fun as well.

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So, that’s the purpose, Stephanie.

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Speaking of my horses, we’ll kind of wrap up with this because we’ve already been talking and chatting for a minute here.

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The people want to know, and we’ll get more questions if we can get Stephanie to come on for a part two here in a little bit.

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They want to know, who is your favorite two-year-old and why? Right now, the two-year-olds are Wall-E, Molly, and Daphne.

Chapter 8: Favorite Horses & Future Plans

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I feel like that is the hardest question to be asked ever because all three of them are so different. They’re very different.

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They’re very, very different, like personality-wise, just everything. And I would say, like, I don’t dislike any of them. I love all of them.

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It’s really hard to pick a favorite. And I think depending on the day, I have a different favorite.

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Exactly. I have a different favorite every day. Yeah. Who was your favorite yesterday? We’ll go with that.

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Not Wall-E. It was not Wall-E yesterday.

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Well, here’s the thing. I want it to be Wall-E. Like, I want Wall-E to be my little buddy, you know what I mean?

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And he is most days, but it’s breeding season, and Molly has been putting him through it.

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Every time she walks past him, I saw her do it today, she pees in front of him and is just torturing him. Yes.

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So, poor guy.

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Because when he’s good, oh my gosh, I love him. And then just a little moment of, “I’m a stallion,” and it’s like, no.

29:51

Which, in all honesty, I think this is the best thing for him, though. Yes.

29:55

Staying on site and having mares all around him, and he’s having to just be a good little citizen in the middle of breeding season, I think is the best thing for him possible.

30:04

Because at some point, he’s going to become a monster, because he’s already 16 hands. What did we say? He’s already 16 hands.

30:12

He’s going to be a freaking 17-hand-plus monster. So, he needs to learn everything now.

30:19

Yeah, because I feel like if he was completely away from all the mares and in a separate barn, like the one being built, he’d be so quiet and easy because there’s not enough going on.

30:32

But then he’d come into a space where a mare is in heat and be like— Yeah, exactly. So, we’ve got to get him in trouble a little bit.

30:39

Okay, so yesterday it was not Wall-E. So, who was it? Probably Daphne. Daphne was your favorite? She had a little “aha” moment. Oh, good.

30:47

So yeah. And I think me and you both established that out of the three this year, she’s our type. Yes.

30:54

Oh yeah, very much my type of horse. Yeah. Very excited for five-year-old Daphne. Yes, she’s going to be very fun. She’s going to be awesome.

31:02

And then we’ll end with this question, and this is also kind of a hard one. Okay.

31:07

Which horse—not age group, so yearlings, two-year-olds, and then the mares that you’re riding for me—and then we have a couple of mares that we haven’t really even started with yet that we might make little projects.

31:18

Which horse makes you the most excited in general? Oh.

31:25

Just to work with, which one are you the most excited about to ride, work with, and think about their future?

31:33

Probably Kennedy. Mainly because she’s just such a fun mare.

31:41

She’s a little bit challenging, but she loves to work. She wants to come work every day. She’s almost sad if she doesn’t.

31:49

And she’s just got all these buttons and all these cool things. And I think we have some really cool plans for her in the future, so it’s exciting.

31:59

She’s going to show her, and she’s nervous about it a little bit.

32:02

She’s like, “It’s VS The First Lady.” And I’m like, “Well, we’re taking her to a show, and you’re going to show her too.” Yes. Yes, we’re both showing her.

32:10

So, super exciting things ahead. Thank you so much for sitting down and chatting with us.

32:15

If you have more questions, more topics, or even just riding or horse videos that you think Stephanie and I can get together and make for YouTube—longer-form content to expand what we offer on this channel—I think that would be super helpful.

32:35

So, let us know in the comments. Let me know any more questions for Stephanie. Thank you so much, and see you in the next one.

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Say goodbye, Frankie.