SATC offers a tried-and–true training regimen for young horses going into the Racing sports.  We provide your horse with the opportunity to maximize his mental and physical abilities and preparedness for high-level competition.

Training includes shoeing and deworming.  Our training regimen is aimed at problem horses as well as starting colts.  The usual time a colt stays with us is 3 months.  At the end of this time they are galloping 2 miles and have been passed through the starting gates on a routine basis.  They have been ridden in company and on their own.  We ride every horse at Comandante Racetrack before we turn them in and pass them through the gate.

For more information on pricing and availability, please contact us at 787-887-5670 or by email at info@siestaalegre.com.

Beginning Jumper's Training

Water Therapy

About our Training Methodology…

We apply Monty Robert’s advance and retreat resistance free methods in starting our horses.

It is a more effective and gentle method, based on a consistent set of principles using the horse’s inherent methods of communication and herd behavior. The result is a willing partnership in which the horse’s performance can flourish to its full potential, rather than exist within the boundaries of obedience. These principles are valuable tools to understanding what motivates horse behavior and increasing effectiveness in any application.

Join-Up training methods are most simply expressed in the process of starting raw horses. Without the use of pain or force the trainer persuades a raw horse to accept a saddle, bridle and rider. Working in a round pen, one begins by making large movements and noise as a predator would and begins driving the horse to run away. She then gives the horse the option to flee or Join-Up®. Through body language, the trainer will ask, “Will you pay me the respect due to a herd leader and join and follow me?” The horse will respond with predictable herd behavior: by locking an ear on her, then by licking and chewing and dropping his head in a display of trust. The exchange concludes with the trainer adopting passive body language, turning her back on the horse and without eye contact, invites him to come close. Join-Up occurs when the animal willingly chooses to be with the human and walks toward her accepting her leadership and protection.

Traditional methods aim to teach the horse to ‘DO AS I SAY’ and involve the use of pain and intimidation, but Join-Up focuses on communion with the horse, rather than domination. Join-Up methods rely on horse and trainer establishing a bond of communication and trust. “You must somehow understand that we as horsemen can do very little to teach the horse. What we can do is to create an environment in which he can learn.”

At the Round Pen