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ing, too, just not for every horse. “I will hilltop my hurdle horses, sometimes,” he said. “But you don’t want hurdlers to learn to jump too well.
“The timber horses, though, I like them to go everywhere,” Valentine said. “Hunting, trail riding, even eventing. It’s all good for them to learn to use themselves, to jump better.”
The bottom line
“There are so many ways to train a horse,” Miller said. “But, once you’ve been in this business for a while, you realize if you don’t start with the right bloodlines, it doesn’t matter how perfectly you handle a weanling, or how expertly you break a yearling. You’ve got to start with the good breeding.”
“You can’t ‘make’ class,” Valentine added. “Either a horse has it, or he doesn’t. Sadly, the best possible handling, or feeding routine, or prep work, can’t make up for lack of speed.”
But, Valentine said, by selecting from the many different tools, from the foxhunting field to schooling shows and hunter paces, a horseman can indeed give his horses a competitive advantage.
“Start with the fundamentals,” Miller said. “And add everything you can think of to give you an edge.”
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