How do you become a horse trainer

[Waikato Valuta]

I want to train horses but dont know were to start. DO i just aproach a trainer and ask if he will teach me. Can your get apretiships or do courses. I dont want to train race horses Or realy high performance horses i woudl prefer to work with problem horses. I know a great establishment that trains horses but i am feeling sort of inadequite.

Do i have to be great with horse before i even begin to ask people or is that the stuff you learn on the job.

I have trained several horses with moderate sucess but can get stuped by just not knowing what to do in cirtain situation. I would be willing to travel overseas for the correct training but would need to be paid as i dont have enought money to support myself while in training. or pay someone to train me.

[rache]

hey, they do like you to be able to ride but the rest they teach you riding and theory they should even pay for your exams if any, if you look on the bhs web site or even one over you well known it will show you all the training needs and vancancies

[janet hakeney]

You have a boatload of good Parelli trainers in Aus. They have a structured system for training you and if you are good enough they do apprenticeships. They deal with a lot of problem horses.

[galadriel]

It helps to know how to teach a horse how to do something, before needing to correct it in a horse who is a "problem horse." I think you will find it better to learn to train horses first, then retrain "problem horses." You also need to be able to ride kindly and well in order to train a horse.

I apprenticed with an instructor as a working student, although I paid for the priviledge :) There are working student/apprentice positions where they pay you, you just have to do a LOT of work (it's very full-time).
This is a good place to find working student positions for eventing in the US:
http://www.useventhorse.com/classifieds/classifieds.cfm?cat=EMPLOYMENT
but you should look for positions with stables that work in the discipline you'd like to learn (and where you want to be ;)).