It is the difficult horses that have the most to give you ~Lendon Gray
I found the perfect quote. It's just right for me. Both of my horse was really difficult to train/ride in the beginning when I got them.
Victor was my dream horse from the first time I saw him. And my father and mother had no doubt about that he was the perfect calm horse for me. But they/and I where wrong. Victor was probably not ridden or well trained when i got him. He was a head-shaker, he kicked with his front legs, threw himself around and every day when I rode him I knew that I would fall off. In spite of all my bruises and all my tears he gave me, I loved him still deep within in. My parents came close many times to sell him, everybody said was too dangerous. But I chose to take a different approach to it all. Instead of continuing to train him after "the old-fashioned riding school style", I chose a new way. I started with Monty Roberts methods (Today, I am against them) but I can only say that he was the first man, to stand up and show a new way to handle horses. He was the frontman for HMS. Here our friendship and understanding to each other started. I later began to read a lot of books about Klaus Hempfling and he gave me much inspiration. And quietly Victor became what he is today. A calm and well-trained horse.
If I had got a highly trained and skilled horse from the beginning, I hadn't probably never had the need to think out of the box. I would have followed the same track as thousands of other people but because I got a "wild horse", I just had to find a new way.
And it made my job easier with Giga. She had however more temperament than Victor, and she still has it, it's just her personality. But we have also come a long way beyond what I had ever hoped for.
