Miguel Batista - Trainer - Positions Open

[Carol Nelson]

Miguel Batista is available to take in horses for training. Specializing in starting horses to saddle, refining and correcting gait, and fixing problem horses. See our ad in the Classifieds Section or visit our website. Natural horsemanship with a Puerto Rican flavor!

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[PASOFAN]

Too cool!!! I wish he could help me and storm.... I am taking storm on a trail ride tomorrow, wish me luck! And no broken bones!

[Carol Nelson]

Jen, I have no doubt that Miguel could help you with Storm. What I have seen him do in just two weeks has me floored. You be careful! ;-)

[Finogirl]

Wish he'd come to England. :(

[peter]

Hi Finogirl. Why not come along to the clinic Sharon Londono will be holding at Yvonnes place in Sudbury next March. There will be two days of tuition from Sharon, followed by a competition. Contact Yvonne or Rachel at www.paso-finos.co.uk

[Pasomom]

:18: Peter, glad to see you come out of silent mode. Ireland! Wow, I have roots in your country! I would love to visit it some day soon!

How many Paso's do you have, or are you in search mode? Tell us alittle bit about yourself! Glad to have you join in.

[peter]

Three Pasos, two mares and a filly.

------------------Shadow Dancer Mako
Carmen del Cielo
------------------Camilla la Estrella

-----------Carnito QC
Jazmin LT
-----------Doradilla

---------------------- Impacto del Juncal
Angelita de Pavo Real
---------------------- Azucena del Eden

plus a bun in the oven hopefully, scanning this week.

Oh and Edurne is my aunt. ( some of you may know her)

[Finogirl]

Thanks Peter, I am already going to one in January at LS Paso Finos in Hertfordshire so hopefully will get some great tuition then.

[peter]

Why not go to both? you won't meet many people who now more about pasos than Sharon. We had a great time at the last one, and you'd get to meet most of the people from the UK and Ireland who are involved with Pasos. Who is holding the clinic at LS pasos?

[Finogirl]

Hi Peter, I may got to both but my mare will be much more heavily pregnant by March. The Clinic is with Jamie and Marie Drizin from Hacienda del Sol, in Arizona, they are also on this board.

[peter]

Come along anyway you can always borrow a horse for the clinic, if you fancy a lively ride you can have a go on the mare I'll be taking.

[Carol Nelson]

I invite you to watch the first training session where Miguel works a gelding that has just come into our facility. This gelding belongs to a woman who wants him just for trail riding. She seeks a flat walk and a controlled gait. If while watching this you become bored and disinterested, let me just say that this gelding has been six weeks with an all-breed trainer to whom he gave some real resistance. Prior to coming to our facility, this gelding was balking at riding away from the barn, and bucking and crowhopping while riding. He fought the bit, and in the trainer's own words, was "extremely spoiled" and difficult to handle while riding. The most dangerous part was that he would rear and come off the ground in the front end.
This is the result of one session with Miguel Batista at our farm, and his owner was sitting right beside me at the time, watching, and saying that this horse had never walked quietly this way up until this point. He had no bit in his mouth at this time.

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[Finogirl]

So, he's coming to England When ?????????????;)

No seriously that is impressive and it all looks so calm too which is how it should be.

[Carol Nelson]

We now have four horses in for training and with one more slot open, we will soon be starting a waiting list. We evaluate another horse this week so that slot will probably fill. I will be posting more video of Miguel Batista at work hopefully later today.
For anyone who is close enough to come watch him in action, I urge you to do so. The man is amazing.

[Carol Nelson]

Here Miguel is giving a client suggestions on how to hold the reins. He will give private lessons to horse owners on their own horses.

[pasobeat]

Miguel is one in a million! I have to figure out a way to get over there to take a lesson or two from him. You are so lucky to have him there to learn from. I am jealous!

[Carol Nelson]

Yesterday, Miguel gave lessons to five separate clients. He worked from ten o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon...and THEN he fixed the air conditioner in my truck and my sticky accelerator. That was AFTER he worked all week long training NINE horses...five of my own and four client's horses. If you think that I don't realize the gem I have here, you are wrong!
I wish you could've seen the smiles on those client's faces after they'd ridden their horses he'd worked with. :)

[dana]

It sounds like you have a real Gem, as a trainer there, Carol!

What i wouldn't give to be by the corral in the morning with a cup of hot coffee to just watch him work with your pretty babies!

[Carol Nelson]

Dana, I'll be posting a sales post on my next filly being finished under saddle, Rojo's Princesa. Now Princesa is the opposite of Sorpresa in my first sales post. Mucho brios, and Miguel loves her. I always knew she would be stunning under saddle, but with what Miguel has done with her, she is breathtaking!

[dana]

Dana, I'll be posting a sales post on my next filly being finished under saddle, Rojo's Princesa. Now Princesa is the opposite of Sorpresa in my first sales post. Mucho brios, and Miguel loves her. I always knew she would be stunning under saddle, but with what Miguel has done with her, she is breathtaking!

Stop it, Carol, just stop teasing me like that! :rolleyes:

[pprpaso3]

WOW! You are very lucky to have Miguel......looks like he is doing a great job!

Are you planning on taking REd to any shows? I am anxious to see how that goes.....

[Carol Nelson]

Deb...the sad truth is is there aren't many shows in the area...at least not Paso shows. And breeds other than the QH don't do well at the open shows here...a friend of mine took her absolutely stunning Arab stallion to a show and I went with her. The judges ignored her stallion in the ring. Barely looked at him and he is gorgeous.
Our Paso Fino shows are very small and poorly attended. That is why out here it is more important to concentrate on putting out good trail horses.
Miguel is tuning up our stallions for presentation here...actually he's determined that Devante is too young and will probably let him wait a few months before progressing in his training. Rojo will be fine-tuned and ready to show if the need arises. Right now Miguel's main job is training the client's horses so that they can enjoy them. And enjoying them, they are!