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| Thank You for your Business! Please Call to Schedule Your Next Appointment: Thank you in advance, for having your Horse(s) ready when I arrive, & for scheduling regular appointments. This helps me provide prompt, quality service. Regular Hoof Care performed by a Professional Farrier can prevent or control many common problems affecting the horses’ foot. Remember...No Foot, No Horse Shoes’ All Around Starting $50.00 |
Now Accepting a limited # of New Clients for 2009 Horseshoeing, Bookings for Training & Stud Service! |
| Training & Gentling Specializing in Training People to Understand Their Own Troubled Animal Our gentle touch, consistency, compassion, patients and help from the Good Lord above, allows us to train animals so they understand what we want from them, in their language and they choose to do what we requests of them, because they want to, not because they are made to. Helping the owners to speak to their animal so they understand. We have found most bad horses are simply misunderstanding their handler. This is a type of training that last all the seasons of the year, not just in the summer months. 1st (Actual) 30 days ground work, basically consists of……. Lunging and round pen work ground driving, flexing, head sets, gates such as walk, trot, canter, with verbal commands and hooking on with the language of the horse, manners (respect for your space) while on halter, in stalls, at feeding time, hitching post, loading in trailer, working with picking up their feet for cleaning as well as extended stretching for the farrier. .(All farriers will tell you cleaning and shoeing are two totally different things), …………………………………………………….$500.00 2nd (Actual) 30 days (60 days) basically consists of……. Continuing the former along w/basic exposure to roads, creeks, surface changes, bikes, cars/trucks, 4 wheelers, chain saws, falling trees, flapping tarps, balls, kids, blankets, carts, camping, trail riding, other horses & animals. We pony your horse along with other horses to expand distance and exposure of work outs, Sacking out with pads, saddles, bridles, saddle bags etc, Adding grain bag weight to saddle while lunging or pony with repetition of the previous commands. ………………………….............………………………………………$500.00 3rd (Actual) 30 days (90 days) basically consists of……. Forward movement with rider walk, trot, canter, back, side pass etc. Ride Time & Exposure of all the previous, with specifications to your desires, weather it be Halter, Western Pleasure, English, for a show, or 4-H ready training, Trail Riding, Road & Parade Riding, Contesting with cutting, reining or pattern practice. We expose your horse to events of your desired specifications………….…….$500.00 |
| APHA Palomino & White Tobiano 16 Hands @ 3yrs and still growing He is Homozygous Tobiano with Cremmello gene so he will throw Buckskins & Palominos w/ his disposition proving Gentle, Willing, Personable Babies Apache is used for training therapy horses' off of, as well as my 19 yr old sons personal trail horse. |
| Royal Prestige Bars Standing @ Stud $750 Accepting 2010 Bookings "Breeders Trust" nominated foals |
| Valstad’s Farrier Service Dependable Horse Shoeing & Training @ a Great Price! Now Accepting New Clients! 317-371-7842, 317-437-6178 |
| About Matt... Matt has been riding horses since he was a newborn. He has been training horses & ponies as well as acting executive director, instructor, training assistant & grounds maintenance for a non profit therapeutic equestrian center and rescue since he was 10 yrs old. He knows every trail at Brown County Horseman's Camp like the back of his hand so you know his love is horses. Matt completed high school at Jubilee Christian Academy and moved on to trade school. He attended Midwest Horseshoeing School for Corrective Shoeing in Macomb Illinois and worked under a couple journeyman, shoeing for a couple seasons. Matt is now accepting a few new clients. |
| In Loving Memory.... Maverick you will be truly missed! Thank You for helping so many children. We LOVE YOU! |
| "Dancer" Missouri Fox Trotter Commonly referred to by the sale barn traders & Jack Eldridge himself as a "Real SOB" He was a misunderstood problem child,gone wild and was quite destructive during his stay at Jacks. As you see from the photos below Matt turned him into a great Trail riding & playing horse. Thanks for the compliments on a changed horse Jack! |
| Thanks Darrel Perrish with White Oak Stables for the opportunity to work with your APHA babies. Congratulations Jill on taking Grand and Reserve @ Paint World with them. |
