Foxcote Show Horses

Join in the Fun journey of Horses! ALL Ages from Seniors to "Wee Ones" ALL Levels from Beginner to Advanced 717-324-2180

Openings for Full Service. Bright airy Barn, INDOOR ARENA, Idyllic, Drama free environment Call 717-324-2180

Sign your kiddos up for our " Back to School Horsey Camp" at Foxcote Show &Sport horses ( 451 Rockhill Lane York 17406)Sunday Sept.20 12-3 a fun filled day of horses, crafts, games! Price $110.00 Call 717-324-2180 to enroll today

Openings for full service, Bright airy stalls, Indoor Arena, Idyllic , drama Free environment Call 717-324-2180

To my fellow trainers. My hat is off to you..... Here's a glimpse of our life in reality. We have a passion, usually starts almost at birth, we go after it. We ...work for free to learn. Muck stalls, buck hay, build fence, drag arenas, wash horses, sweep floors and a thousand other tasks just in hopes of learning something about these amazing animals. Endless and often thankless hours. To get lucky enough to get on some nasty suckers no one wants to ride. But you get on...maybe scared, maybe unsure, but you'd crawl in the middle of a red eyed lion just to prove to yourself that you can. You ride anything they run at you.... Then one day, usually years later, you strike out on your own. You become a trainer..But you still crawl on the bad ones and make the best you can of them. You still get jerked around trying to lead a knothead to the barn, still get rope burns, get kicked and pawed and bit. Have runaways, broncs, flippers and ones that smash your legs into the fence. Often times risk your life... Even easy day are abusive to your body. You are stiff and sore so often you don't even notice anymore. You ride, drive, learn, teach and soul search endless hours... What little money you actually make you buy or replace gear, struggle to get a truck and trailer, find a place to train out of...yeah it's a real cakewalk. Through endless hours of learning, failing, trying harder, wanting to quit, digging deeper, you learn to train well and maybe show well... You start winning, winning starts to become habit...surely you have made it...nope. You still ain't above mucking stalls or dragging the arena...you basically do what you did in the beginning..you just get paid a little more and have a different title... After all of this, day and night, you still work crazy odd hours and hunger to get better..If we took a pencil to what we earned per hour we'd go hang ourselves... Then...the clients. Some good, some bad, some amazing and some absolutely awful.. They go from singing your praises to saying what a poor job you did, how they expected so much more but fail to see what you had to go through to get their less than stellar, pissy, less than world class bred horse to the point that they can ride it, maybe even show it. Then they decide to ride with another trainer down the road and suddenly they forget how overjoyed they were with all you had accomplished on their baby. I know you know this...horses aren't the tough part of this business, people are. Hang in there fellow fools for horse. You are not alone... Remember why you started my friends...you started because of the love....hang in there, don't lose your passion, your heart and soul over people...keep doing it for the horse. See more