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T-R-STARRANCH aka M-BAR-K FARMS

T-R-STARRANCH aka M-BAR-K FARMS review: Proffesional Horse Training 6

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If you enter in to agreement with her beware She won't do anything as agreed except CASH your check she will train her own horses for competion and tell you your horse is a slow learner then near the end of 120 days she will tell you your horse is not trainable She starts them with a saddle with a broken Tree putting FEAR and PAIN in the horses mind. I picked our horse up and sent him to another trainer where hes is doing fine add up the the cost of doing Business with her and walk away This Gal $4, 300 to her $1, 500 to an Attorney Plus the cost to have a GOOD HONEST trainer restart the horse Tricia talks a good game I will say she has the capability and has great style in the saddle but just say No to her as a TRAINER .Horses to her are an OBJECT (money) not The OBJECTIVE Professional Training shes another one that uses mild drugs on horses She has a lawsuit pendeing for her services not completed per agreement In Tarrant County Texas

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MBK Farms
Irving, US
Jan 29, 2011 12:34 am EST
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Please do not assume that when someone puts up an anonymous post online that it is true. We have decided to respond to these defamatory statements at www.trstarranch.com/Having_Our_Say

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JBismad
Dallas, US
Aug 15, 2010 12:57 am EDT
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This girl was highly recommended by M Bar K Farms (her parents) as specializing in problem horses. We sent our 5 year old totally unbroken mare to her for whatever time it would take to train her, and our thirteen year old gelding for one month of refresher training and then just boarding and occasional riding in her pasture while the mare received training. They were both to receive badly needed farrier and vet care (teeth floated, coggins, ect...). Three months and $6000.00 later our horses are back home in very sorry condition. These people talked a very good game and we were taken in! The mare is now so terrified and thin, her eye is hugely swollen for some reason and she has some kind of fungus on her skin. After two weeks we visited the ranch and were told they were able to lunge her in the arena, yeah! we were happy, but the gelding was out in the pasture although we had paid for him to be boarded indoors for a month, then pastured, $750.00 as opposed to $375.00 for pasture. He remained there for the duration. After 1 1/2 months we again visited and again were told that they were able to lunge the mare in the arena. At two months we visited and received the same report, also the horses had received none of the paid for($500.00 extra) vet or farrier care that they were supposed to get the first week, they never did get this. Disappointed, and concerned for the horses, we asked that they be returned the next month at the end of the paid for three month mark. At this point Tricia admits that she stopped working with the mare even though she was paid for three months of training! Tricia says that our horse is a wild mustang and untrainable, what happened to ("we specialize in problem horses")? At 5 years old and unbroken, the mare definantly qualified as a problem horse, but she came back to us yesterday a complete mess, so thin, scared, filthy, fly bitten it's pitiful to look at her. The gelding is still sweet as ever but I don't think he was ridden much at all and certainly not trained, he is also extremely bony and has a bad sore of some kind on his mouth and scald on his back. $6, 000.00 for nothing plus whatever its going to cost for vet care now, thank goodness we have a really good friend who's a lawyer, Miss Aldridge has another lawsuit on her hands.

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JBismad
Dallas, US
Aug 14, 2010 11:35 pm EDT
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we have a very similar complaint about Tricia and will be contacting a lawyer shortly. Beware and stay clear of T-R StaRanch and Tricia!

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Deb Bergs
Rowlett, US
Jul 08, 2010 8:34 am EDT

We had an arab/TB cross mare with Tricia a few years ago. This was a rescue horse with a lot of issues of all types that came with her due to abuse in her past. My husband and I used to train for a living, but at our age (50's--and hadn't been actively training/riding for several years) we don't bounce so well any more! We had done all her ground work, but were getting no place with the riding and actual finishing of her, and were looking for a good trainer to take her to. I had talked to Tricia's mom about taking her to their place, and she suggested that I take Sadie to Tricia instead, since we wanted just to have her basics of actually being ridden. We took Sadie to Tricia and explained what had been done, and what she needed--as well as her quirks. This was a mare that had put my husband into the hospital for a week in a coma. And we are experienced horse people with years of training horses ourselves behind us.
Tricia took on Sadie and within a short time was riding her in the arena even with semi-trucks and other vehicles going by on the road right next to her-some honking horns, etc. She worked her on mounting--which was ALWAYS a big issue with Sadie, she was terrified of anyone on her left side and mounting just blew her mind. She would get on and off and on and off over and over helping her to learn that nothing bad was going to happen to her. She rode out the bucks that Sadie would throw in like a cocklebur stuck to her back. I watched her put the mare through her paces, always very gentle, never abusive--and this was a horse that I know a lot of trainers would have taken out back and beat the snot out of just to try and get them in line. I've been in horses long enough to know when I'm dealing with an abused animal, and nothing in Sadie's attitude indicated any type of abuse at all from Tricia. The place she was training at when Sadie was there had an outdoor arena, and even tho we paid for 30 days at a time, Tricia kept track of all the rain days or extreamly hot days that she couldn't work her, and added them onto the end of the month--so in actuallity, I think she got about 2 months for the price of each one month we paid for.
I wish I could say we still owned Sadie-she was a gorgeous mare with movement that would send chills up your spine watching her trot out, but after the fall, my husband had a phobia about riding her, and I am not able to mount anymore without a block--and she never really lost her fear of mounting totally--we think someone did a cowboy on her, tieing up her hind leg and throwing her down, etc., and she always had that fear of her left side no matter what. We boarded, and couldn't justify paying board on a horse we really couldn't use. We traded her to a stable in the bottom part of TX that shows hunter/jumpers and dressage horses, and she went on to a great show career with them in dressage. They told us she moved up the levels like she was born knowing the stuff.
I have absolutly nothing but good to say about our experience with Tricia, and I recommend her to people all the time. Anyone who could do what she did with Sadie, can work with any of our horses at any time. Without any type of hesitation or reservations on my part. And I'm saying this as a trainer, who has worked with hundreds of horses over the years, seen every trick, cheat and screw up come through the barn, and had to fix a good portion of other trainer's and novice owner's book and video learned methods. My experience has been that this young woman truly cares about the animals entrusted to her and knows her craft. I have video of her working with Sadie that we showed people who knew the mare and they were amazed at how far she had come in being ridden. She did what we were not physically able to do any more, and did it well, honestly, and with outstanding customer care and service. I highly recommend this tallented young woman as one professional to another.
Deb Bergs

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willandsunny
Grand Prairie, US
Jul 06, 2010 10:23 am EDT

I have known Tricia for about 6 months, she put my two year old running bred colt under saddle, he wasn't the best student but she did everything she coud she could do. Spent long hours with him when he needed. He is doing great. I find it hard to believe you say she doesn't know how to handle a stallion when she has 3 breeding studs and 4 colts in training in the barn. They are all very well mannered and I know she shows two of them. I also know as a greenie myself... Even a few days with just me working with my colt sunny, he regresses and she is constanly tuning him for me so I don't ruin him. She has many happy clients and students and I am one of them. As far as I'm concerned you have no right to bash her until this is settled in court. My colt is happy, sound and sane also

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PatriciaandTru
Hur, US
Jun 14, 2010 9:55 pm EDT

Tricia has had my three-year-old under saddle for 120 days now. She has done an excellent job. My three-year-old is happy, healthy and well trained. I have found her to be very honest.