Colt Starting
Our specialty. First saddle through a solid, quiet horse that steers, stops, and handles a day’s work.
$1,800/month· 120-day minimum
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Colt Starting, Late Starts & Finishing
Monte Glosson is a horse trainer in Eastland, Texas. Glosson Livestock takes a limited number of outside horses into full training — colt starting, late starts, and tune-ups and finishing — built around one idea: build the foundation properly and everything after it gets easier.
$1,800/month · 120-day minimum. Eastland, Texas. Horses ship in from across the state.
What we take
Training Services
Starting two-year-olds is the heart of our program. We also take a limited number of older horses for foundation and finishing work.
Additional Services
Late Starts
Three-year-olds and up that never got started, or were started and turned out. The same foundation, built for a bigger, stronger horse.
$1,800/month· 120-day minimum
Read moreabout Late StartsTune-Ups & Finishing
Broke horses that need a refresher or the next level put on them. Typically 30 to 60 days.
$1,800/month· Typically 30 to 60 days
Read moreabout Tune-Ups & FinishingCutting & cow horse foundations
Cutting Horse Foundation Training
Foundation work for cutting prospects — body control, position, rating and progressive cattle exposure appropriate to the individual horse.
$1,800/month· 120-day minimum
Read moreabout Cutting Horse Foundation TrainingCow Horse Foundation Training
Cow horse fundamentals and progressive cattle work as the horse is ready for it.
$1,800/month· 120-day minimum
Read moreabout Cow Horse Foundation TrainingSpace is limited and every horse is accepted by evaluation. We'll take a look at your horse and give you an honest assessment of the work involved and whether our program is the right fit before anything is scheduled.
Colt starting
First saddle through a solid handle.
A two-year-old is not a small finished horse. It is an athlete that has never been asked to do anything, still growing, still deciding what people are worth. What happens in the first several months under saddle sets the tone for the rest of its career.
We start with what the horse already understands and work forward from there. Groundwork and saddling done thoroughly enough that they hold. Then softness — in the face, through the body — and body control, so shoulders, ribs and hip move independently and willingly. Then stopping, rating, correct leads, and collection appropriate to where the horse actually is, not where a calendar says it should be.
Exposure runs through all of it: outside the arena, around equipment, in and out of the trailer, around cattle and other horses. A young horse that has seen things is a safer horse, an easier horse and a more marketable one.
The goal is not a trick list. It is a horse that is confident, soft, responsive, willing, mentally sound and physically prepared for its next stage.
What we build
- Confidence with people, equipment and new places
- Softness in the face and through the body
- Body control — shoulders, ribs, hip
- Stopping and rating
- Correct leads
- Collection appropriate to the horse’s stage
- Willingness under pressure
- Exposure to cattle when the horse is ready
Late starts
Three and up, same foundation.
Three-year-olds and up that never got started, or were started and turned out. The same foundation, built for a bigger, stronger horse.
Tune-ups & finishing
The last 10%.
Broke horses that need a refresher or the next level put on them. Typically 30 to 60 days.
Cattle
Cutting & Cow Horse Foundations
A horse cannot read a cow if it is too busy worrying. Before cattle enter the picture, the horse needs to carry itself, respond honestly and handle pressure without coming apart. When that is in place, cattle make everything sharper.
From there the progression is approach, tracking, rating, position and speed control — then reading movement, stopping with a cow and turning with one. How far a given horse gets inside a given stay depends on the horse. Some are ready early. Some need the time spent elsewhere first, and we will tell you which one you have.
The objective is a prospect that can walk into a cutting or cow horse program and be ready to work — not one that has to be taken apart and rebuilt first.
Program structure
A progression, not a schedule.
Every horse moves through this in its own time, and horses do not move through it in a straight line — we go back to earlier work whenever the horse tells us to. Nothing below is a promise about a specific number of days.
01
Evaluation
Every horse gets ridden and read before a plan is made. What the horse already knows, how it handles pressure, where the holes are, and what it is physically ready for.
02
Foundation
Groundwork, saddling, and the first rides done thoroughly enough that they hold. A young horse that is confident here is easier to work with for the rest of its life.
03
Body Control
Shoulders, ribs and hip, moving independently and willingly. Softness in the face and body. This is the part most people skip, and it is the part everything else is built on.
04
Confidence and Exposure
Outside the arena, around equipment, in and out of the trailer, around noise and cattle and other horses. A horse that has seen things is a safer horse and a more marketable one.
05
Performance Foundation
Stopping, rating, correct leads, and collection appropriate to where the horse is. Enough handle that a specialist can pick the horse up and go to work.
06
Cattle
Introduced when the horse is ready and progressed at the horse’s pace — approach, tracking, position, reading a cow. Some horses get further into this than others within a given stay.
07
Owner Review and Direction
An honest conversation about what the horse showed us, what it still needs, and where it should go next — whether that is more time here, a specialist, the show pen or the sale ring.
The minimum
Why we ask for 120 days.
Thirty days is enough to get a colt ridden. 120 days is enough to get one riding around. Neither is enough to get one good.
A horse needs the miles, the repetition and the time to be wrong without consequence. That work takes a year, and that is what we want when we can have them. Pushing a horse to hit a short deadline is how you get one that is quick but brittle — one that works until the pressure comes up and then quits.
Horses entering colt starting or a late start are accepted on a 120-day minimum. Tune-ups and finishing are typically 30 to 60 days. The program we believe in, when we can have them, is a full year.
Before you book
Is My Horse a Fit?
Our program is built around young horses and foundation work — colt starting, late starts, and putting a finished handle on a horse that is already broke.
Space is limited and every horse is accepted by evaluation. We'll talk through your horse, look at what the job actually involves, and give you an honest answer about whether this is the right barn before anything is scheduled. If it isn't, we will usually know someone who is a better fit and we are glad to point you there.
Not sure where your horse falls? Call. It is a two-minute conversation and nobody's feelings get hurt.
Rate
What it costs, and what it covers.
Everything below is what you should expect. Horse-specific costs are billed at actual cost as they come up, and we will talk to you before anything significant happens.
Full Training
$1,800per month
120-day minimum commitment
Included
- Professional training
- Standard board
- Quality alfalfa
- One standard scoop of Purina Strategy per the barn’s normal feeding program
- Routine daily care
- Access to Glosson Livestock facilities
- Cattle use as appropriate within the horse’s normal training program
- Regular owner communication, with progress updates or video when practical
Billed separately
- Farrier work
- Veterinary services
- Dental care
- Medications
- Supplements
- Specialty feed
- Additional feed beyond the standard barn ration
- Additional hay beyond normal program requirements
- Specialty nutrition requirements
- Emergency care
- Hauling
- Show expenses, entry fees and away-from-home stall fees
- Association fees
- Special services requested by the owner
- Other extraordinary horse-specific expenses
Included in $1,800/month
- Professional training
- Standard board
- Quality alfalfa
- One standard scoop of Purina Strategy per the barn’s normal feeding program
- Routine daily care
- Access to Glosson Livestock facilities
- Cattle use as appropriate within the horse’s normal training program
- Regular owner communication, with progress updates or video when practical
Cattle use is included as appropriate within the horse’s normal training program. That is not unlimited cattle work, and feed is the barn’s standard ration — not unlimited feed.
Billed separately
- Farrier work
- Veterinary services
- Dental care
- Medications
- Supplements
- Specialty feed
- Additional feed beyond the standard barn ration
- Additional hay beyond normal program requirements
- Specialty nutrition requirements
- Emergency care
- Hauling
- Show expenses, entry fees and away-from-home stall fees
- Association fees
- Special services requested by the owner
- Other extraordinary horse-specific expenses
These are passed through to the owner as they occur. Nothing here is a surprise fee — it is the normal cost of owning a horse, and it belongs to the owner rather than being buried in a training rate.
Fit
Horses this program is built for
We are a foundation and finishing barn. That focus is the reason the work is good, and it is also the reason we are honest when a horse belongs somewhere else.
- Two-year-olds for a colt start
- Late starts — three-year-olds and up that were never broke, or got started and turned out
- Broke horses that need a tune-up or finishing
- Cutting prospects
- Cow horse prospects
Before your horse ships
Every horse needs current health paperwork, including a negative Coggins, and current vaccinations. Tell us up front about any behavioral history, soundness issue or health condition — it makes the horse safer and the training better, and it is not going to cost you a spot.
Horses are accepted after evaluation, and a signed training agreement is required before a horse enters the program.
Tell us about your horseApply for TrainingGet in touch
Tell us about your horse.
Openings are limited and every horse is evaluated individually. Send a short note or call Monte — either works.
- Phone
- 512-648-9560
- Ranch
- 13601 Hwy 6
Eastland, TX 76448
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