Marc Chancey, 

the Wild Horse Trainer

Diane Delano meet Marc Chancey while both were competing in the 2009 Gatorland Mustang Makeover.  Impressed by his training skills Diane began talking with Marc about horses, training methods, and Mustangs. She liked Marc's background and his approach to training wild horses.

Diane began talking with Marc about training Romeo, a Mustang stallion.  She drove to Georgia, met Marc and his family and reviewed his facilities and training methods. She decided to place Romeo with Marc to be saddle trained. Romeo returned home in July and Diane was very happy with the results. 

Diane began thinking of many Mustangs adopted from Wild Horse Rescue who need additional training. While Diane is a mentor to new owners, she does not always have the time required to saddle train wild horses. She decided to work with Marc to help the horses and their owners. WHR is now offering adopters the option of having their horses trained by Marc Chancey with adoption packages that include adoption fees and training as an incentive to new owners. 

More information about the Training/Adoption packages will be listed soon on our Adoptions page. 

Letter from Marc Chancey:

"Horsemanship comes second nature to me because I have never experienced life
without horses. I have been on horses since I was born. My father was a horseman,
his father before him was a horseman and so are my brothers. I have a lifetime of
working with horses and being taught by my father.

I have also had the opportunity to go and work with several other world renowned
horseman and trainers. This helped me to polish what I had already learned in life
about horses and it also taught me better and more effective techniques.

I strive to keep horses quiet. I use gentle horse training techniques yet I am firm enough
to establish the necessary respect and willingness that is needed in teaching and training horses.

I will take the horse from wherever it is when it comes to me and mold him into a horse
that any good rider can proud of.

He will learn to respect your space.

He will learn to look to you for guidance.

He will operate with light hands and will move off of your legs respectfully.

He will learn to yield its front end and shoulders as well as the hind quarters.

He will back up nicely and give you a good stop as well.

I also train cow horse and rope horses.  Using cattle on horses seems to really get
them to thinking.

Horse training is not rocket science but it is something that one must have in them.
There is a certain finesse that one needs to possess to be good at the art of training.
There are a lot of conditioned responses in training horses. The way we execute these
is simply making the right things easy and the wrong things difficult. (Difficult-not
painful or frightening). A horse learns through pressure and release. The timing is
crucial.

We need to remember that "What we release is what we teach". "

Marc Chancey

Fees:

• $550.00 /month-training
• $125.00-150.00/month for feed and Hay.

Some horses need more attention than others.
We feed a good quality hay and feed. We have just started feeding a new feed that
is a really good performance feed with all the needed vitamins and minerals.
Good feed is a must especially while the horse is in training.

Additional fees:

• Special Supplements if desired are administered at the cost of the supplement.
• Ferrier work is basically $35 trimming.  $65 front shoes.
• Veterinary cost are responsibility of owner.
• For those who want their horse just started on cattle, there is no extra charge.
• If someone wants extensive cattle work, I charge an extra cattle fee of $125/month.
• De-worming is basically $10 unless special attention is necessary.
• Health certificates $25