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Farm Show to feature Gentle Horse Trainer Scott Daily
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:09:49 CDT
One of the highlights of this year's Southern Plains Farm Show at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds April 18-20 will be the daily clinics given by Gentle Horse Trainer Scott Daily. Daily will be giving horse training seminars twice a day for the length of the Farm Show.
Daily is originally from Inola, Oklahoma, where he began working with horses in 4-H. He completed a degree in equine management at Northeastern A&M College in Miami, Oklahoma, and has perfected his training techniques over the last 15 years. He and his wife own and operate Daily Horse Training in Arkansas City, Kansas. Daily trains about 200 horses per year and works a lot of the farm shows.
For Daily, training horses was never something he planned on doing as a career; it was just one of those things that he walked into.
"I started out by riding some horsed for some friends and helping them out and everything", said Daily. "They had show horses and race horses and just started from there. The next thing you know, I went to college and then got into the horse management program and it worked out pretty good. I never thought I would be doing what I'm doing now but I kind of started training horses for a living. A guy saw me working some horses and asked me about doing a clinic. I did one and then did some state fairs. I then started working the farm shows and it's been great.
"I really enjoy meeting the people and working with their horses and everything and it works out really nice."
When preparing for a series of clinics, Daily always asked for the rawest, roughest, ill-mannered horses available in the areas in which he would appear. So far, Daily says he hasn't met a horse he couldn't handle.
"I've had some that have been darn sure challenging," said Daily. "I think there will be five or six horses there this year and it sounds like a couple of them may be pretty tough. That's good, without a doubt. I had one at a farm show in Wichita a couple of years ago that would come and try to strike at me and bite at me. But, I made it through him and got it to where he would trust me and we got a long good.
"You have to have a lot of confidence whenever you go in there. You just have to stick to your plan and read your horse real well. Some horses might be very challenging but that's when you have to just keep on trying."
Daily says the most gratifying part of his job is being able to give horses a second chance with their owners.
"People will bring horses to me that are on their last hope just to see if I can get anything done with them. Usually, I can change those horses' minds around a lot of times. I think that's a pretty good deal on its own, if I can help them get their horse to where they can enjoy it, that's the main thing."
Once again this year, the Farm Show and its sponsors will be giving away the pen that Daily will use during his clinic.
"They'll be giving away the Priefert Round Pen that I use, which they give away every year. It's a really big asset. I don't think people realize that they have a free opportunity to win a round pen. It's a 40 foot round pen that's worth about $1500."
Daily will hold clinics at 11:00am and 2:00pm Thursday through Saturday.
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