Remember when we talked about what your horse goals are for 2012? My daughter has had a dream for a long time to train a horse for show and hit the show circuit. It’s starting to become a reality for her.
This week she got a new horse,a three-year old, named Pleased By Chex out of Miss Fritzie Bug and sired by Chic Please. Normally Chic Pleases are pretty hot and not normally a youth horse. However, Pleased By Chex seems to be pretty mellow.
She’s been researching horses with Josh, her Dad, forever trying to find the right horse. The right horse needed to be something with great breeding, in her price range, and had to fit into her business plan. Yes, my 13 year old daughter has a business plan.After all, not only are we in the business of horses, but we are in the business of raising kids. There is nothing better than doing projects with your kids to teach them a few things about life. And, a neat side effect of doing things with your kids is that they love to spend time with you.
So her business plan is broken down into two parts- Part A and Part B. nbsp;Part A- she trains the horse with her dad for the next year and hits a few shows to get a show record on her. Then she sells her horse in a year to get a return on her investment. Now the hard part A of her business plan is that tricky emotional part where you fall in love with the horse and just can’t sell it. Since that is highly likely, she also has a part B so that she can still make a return on her investment. Part B is to breed her horse and sell the foals to get her money back out of it. A funny part about her investment is that she didn’t have enough to buy it outright, so she had to borrow some money from her brother to complete the transaction. So her brother teases her that he is currently a 15% owner in the horse until she pays him back. In the meantime, her other horse Lake Hazel Suezee Que is for sale. She is currently in foal to a son of Mister Dual Pep and due within a month. She’s a great little barrel horse.
The next step for her is to put together a training regimen /schedule and a plan to get ready for the first show.
