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Originally Posted by Danzig2
but i've seen comments from many regarding buying two year olds at those sales...that they essentially have to re-train the horse. that all they've been taught is go go go so as to get that fast furlong work. then you have to break them of that, teach them to take their cues from the rider...
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That doesn't happen very often. We've bought alot of horses out of 2 year old sales and I can only think of one who always wanted to "go go go", and it took a long time to get him over that. But even with this horse, I can't say that his bevavior was necessarily a result of what he was taught training for the sale. We sent the horse to the farm for 3 months after the sale. Then we started him in very light training and he bucked his shins. To make a long story short, he didn't really do any serious training until he was a 3 year old so it was a full year after the 2 year old sale. The problem was when we would work him. He was fine galloping but when we would work him he wanted to go full-speed. He only knew two speeds, slow gallops or full-speed. He didn't know how to something in between. You could argue that this was a result of what he learned aat the 2 year old sale but I'm not so sure. It was a year later and he was the only horse that would do this. So it may not have had anything to do with what he learned at the 2 year old sale.