How much does professional horse training cost?
Training costs vary from trainer to trainer even within the same area. Some trainers combine training costs with board as a “package”, some break it out as a separate cost from board. To get a realistic answer to your question, you need to know how much training you will require: do you want your filly green-broke (i.e., an experienced rider could handle her but not an inexperienced rider)? Broke to the point where even a beginner could ride her? Do you want her trained for a specific show discipline? Do you want to work with the filly as she’s being trained, and get lessons from the trainer? Or do you expect the trainer to do everything and at some point hand you off a trained horse? Once you know what your expectations are, you need to start looking for trainers and talking to them. Some trainers aren’t interested in training horses they haven’t bought for the client themselves. Sad to say, some of these kinds of trainers will take your horse on and then try to talk you into letting