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Met with a possible trainer to send Shoni and Tabasco to next month.  He came recommended by my farrier and our hay supplier.

I've been really picky about who to let handle Shoni because of the problems we had with her when she came back from the trainer, Mike, around 2007 (mainly being that he was lassoing them to halter them which caused Shoni to be head-shy for a while and hard to catch/halter).

It has been difficult to find a trainer who is not an old fashioned cowboy type or a trainer who is not prejudice against mustangs.  Now of course, I am running into the problem of trainers not wanting to work with them due to their age (they turn 7 this year) as well.  They give up on the horse before they even see them or work with them.  And if they do work with them, they already have their minds made up that the horse is untrainable.

Has anyone else run into this problem with either the age or breed of their horse?

At this rate, I'm thinking maybe I should just train Shoni myself.  I sure wish there were some TIP or EMM trainers in my area.