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Cultivating Confident Competitors

n the horse industry, most competitive riders come into riding with a similar plan: purchase a horse, put the horse with a trainer, and then compete to achieve singular goals. This is how I viewed the horse industry, too, when I focused on training and coaching amateur and youth riders. Today, though, I have a new outlook on how riders are getting into the horse industry. Along with new entryways to competing are new ways that

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