David George Horse Training

About David

    David has spent his whole life growing up with horses.  His family owns the Latigo guest ranch in Northwestern Colorado.  He spent his youth riding and training the ranch’s herd of 65 horses. 

    When David was 13, he and his family adopted three mustangs from the Bureau of Land Management.  His horse had only been touched in a squeeze chute and had no trust in the human.  Through lots of learning and miles, she is now a solid, broke horse.  The summer after he turned 17, he started working full time as a wrangler and working with the ranch’s guests and horses.

    When he was 18, he spent the winter in southern California starting and training polo horses with Pete Arritola.  Then later that spring, he went and helped his good friend and well-known clinician/trainer, Bryan Neubert, while he was putting on his home clinic in Alturas, CA.  That same summer, he worked as a wrangler in the mornings and in the afternoons he started outside colts for the public.  Some of the first ‘colts’ he started that summer were 6 and 7 years old.  That winter he was off to Texas to do an internship with cutting horse trainer and clinician, Joe Wolter.  While working for Joe, he started many colts, warmed up the older cutting horses, turned back for Joe, and did many other barn chores.  The summer found him back at Latigo; only that summer, he was the head wrangler in charge of the barn. 

    During this summer he also had more outside horses in training.  In the fall, he went to work for the Chico Basin Ranch. It is an 87,000 acre cattle ranch.  While he was there, he worked on the cowboy crew weaning, shipping, doctoring, preg checking, and lots of other cowboy activities.  He also started many of the ranch colts.  After all fall and most of the winter, he went out on his own to start more colts for the public. 

    The next summer, he was back at Latigo as the head wrangler and attended many ranch roping and stock horse competitions.  He got married that fall and now lives in Michigan with his new wife, April.  He is training many different kinds of horses there.  In a day, he might work with some Quarter horses, Halflingers, Warm Bloods, and Gaited horses.  He also works with Arabians, Clydesdales, and Spanish bred horses. 

    David hopes to get a few different areas thoughout the Midwest where he can go and work for a few months at a time.  Throughout his learning career David has ridden with the above mentioned Joe Wolter, Bryan Neubert, and also Buck Brannaman, Curt Pate, Martin Black, Marty Marten, and many others.

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Our Business

   David has been riding horses for the public since he was 18.  Since David & April's marriage a few months ago, they have been on the move to different areas to train horses for the public, primarily in the Midwest at this time.  They currently reside in Michigan, but have connections in Illinois as well.

   Contact us today to learn when he can schedule a time with you and your horse.

About April

   On October 17th, 2009 David married April Ehling of Central Illinois at David's family's dude ranch in Kremmling, Colorado. 

   April learned about the George's ranch through a magazine classified ad and started working in the kitchen with his parents three summers ago.  David and she began courting after her second summer there and were engaged in the middle of her third summer.  They were married the fall after her third summer.

  April finished school and then interned with Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs and the Family Research Council in Washington, DC.  She loves reading and doing research in various topics.  She has been enjoying helping David in the scheduling and financial aspect of his business.

   They now own a 5th wheel which they live in and are able to move around the country to where the business leads them.