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Show Supplement to: The Wasatch Wave, The Park Record and The Summit County Bee ... 7D , Horse traimmg is the game -- city but Bens grandmother lived on a small farm surrounded by ranches. His older brother, Mark, used to amuse himself at the farm by hopping on the neighbors' horses. "How do you know Apaloosahalf quarterhorse and ended up to be a fine mare. The word traveled around town that Quinters had a way with horses and soon he was busy with requests from friends who had also bought which ones have been ridden? Ben remembers asking. Mark went off to school then served in the military. When he returned, he took up cowboying during the week and training horses on the weekends. Ben would watch him and finally decided that he wanted a horse of his own. The best deal he could get was on a horse that hadnt been broken. He him, and then he was given shots and wormed. His ear was tagged and he was branded. Everything he has had with a human has been bad, elaborated Quinters. Until that is, he fell into Bens capable hands. It was a little like trying to walk up to a deer at first. He wouldnt touch grain and he didn't take his eyes off me." From eight, years of exper- ience he could tell that Freebe was intelligent and strong willed. Within two weeks the horse and the trainer had come to a tenuous settlement, Freebe was accepting grain and allowing Ben to ride him but he was still with holding absolute trust. in return has gained a measure of remarkable cooperation from him. I can't believe how far he's come already," grinned Lawrence as he watched his horse respond to Ben's professional tach. At this point, Quinters was able to ride the horse around the ring and was working on mounting from both sides. "Well, this saddle doesn't hurt my confidence any," he d said of the a maintains He. saddle. for Freebes healthy respect deep-seate- sense of independence and The BLM stipulates that the wild horses may not be used for rodeo stock. Lawrence says that if he can get an elk with Freebe's help, he will be satisfied. Ben started training horses professionally in San unbroken deals. In Heber, Ben works with horses full time. Last spring, he had ten students, right now there are four horses in training. Each fall when the training season is slow, Quinters takes work with the local sheep ranchers helping them move their stock to market. He often takes one of his client's horses along for the experience. He hesitates to talk about a specific training philoPeople have very sophy. different ideas about training horses," he says respectfully. He prefers to talk about a horse's disposition rather than its personality. He likes to avoid the animals. He works from the ground a lot using voice commands and he believes that if you handle any horse enough and properly that you will see results. "A horse bucks out of fear," he concluded while saddling up to pick up his son. Antonio, Texas. Before trying to make a living with horses, he was an airplane mechanic for the government. He remembers the first horse he ever trained. The Quinters lived in the . Scan and bitemarks suggest that Freebes priliminary contact with humans was an unhappy fv peiience. worked with the horse for weeks and still had to use a blindfold in order to saddle her. "Well Mark got wind of the fact that 1 hadn't ridden her yet so he said he would give her a try. She took off and threw him into a wire fence. All the way to the hospital, Mark kept saying, She's got to be ridden or she'll be ruined. Shes got to be ridden right away.' Ben was afraid Mark, who was still bleeding was going to try to get back on her so he assured Mark that he would do it. He took his horse to a nearby arena with a solid fence and rode her. "She never even offered to buck," Ben laughed. She was half . There are lots of different ideas about training horses,' says Quin ten. |