In an amateur’s ideal horse-showing world, he or she would have 24/7 access to their horse and trainer. Perhaps they’d go it alone and be a do-it-yourselfer. For most, though, neither arrangement is plausible.
When amateur horsemen and -women split their time between horse showing and everything else in life, there are challenges that exhibitors face related and unrelated to horse showing.
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