I will second everything that Sirh said. When we came home from the Navy in ‘88, I was racing Mx, and my wife wanted something to ride. I figured a horse would be cheaper than a pool boy, but I may have been wrong. Over the years we have had horses ever since then, but it is more my wife’s gig. I do help with the feed, hay and heavy lifting, to try to help my wife out. I got a big education in the horse world when I went to Ok Horse Shoeing school to become a farrier. I have worked on a lot of horses, and a lot of horses that started out as rank sob’s, and took a little “training” to get straight. One thing that is funny about girls and women and their horses. You aren’t doing anything bad to the horse, just going about your business, and trimming or whatever, and that horse-due to poor and lack of training on the owners part- reaches down and bites the shit out of you. I WILL NOT tolerate that under any condition. That’s when the horse got Mongo’d, and I’ve broken a number of rasps on a horses ass. That’s when the girl/woman goes apeshit because you hit her baby. There was a reason they couldn’t get anyone to work on their horse, and the reason is in the mirror. I also discovered that I am to big to be a farrier. You can make a lot of money, but it is very hard work, and you will occasionally get hurt. There are so many sides to the horse world. I don’t really care about horses, but my wife likes them, soooo........