It's a thought! It sure would be fun to do all the training on my own (though I'd probably send him out for backing, like you did) but I hadn't thought I'd want to replace Bay with a really green horse.
And really, we're maxed out here... we don't really have room for another till we get our own place.
Late start here......Good morning.
Well, there's a difference between a green horse that you don't know and one that you raised. Hopefully Bay's got at least 4 or 5 more good years in him and if you spent the time with the young horse that I think you would, he wouldn't be green at all by the time that Bay retired. I know what you mean about the space issue, but it's nothing that another lean-to on the barn and some more hay wouldn't solve. And now I won't nag you any more about it. ;o)