Cutting ties with your trainer is never enjoyable,
but a few tips can help minimize the heartache.

Maybe that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach was growing throughout the show season, as your frustration mounted with every disappointing score, making you question whether your instructor was a good fit for you and your Paint Horse. Or perhaps over the winter one major incident at the barn occurred where you and your trainer disagreed over training methods. Either way, the ­relationship just didn’t work out, and you need to end it. But how?

While the majority of trainers are professional horse handlers and they work well with their clients’ Paints, sometimes the relationship just does not work and a break-up is necessary.

Read on to find out frequent reasons why both sides call it quits, how to end it amicably and how to prevent it from happening—and why training yourself is not always the best option.