Trainer Application

Apply for next year Starting January 1st of 2018!

The application deadline for 2018 is April 1ST!

Please Apply Now with our ALL New Online Application here

Forward this link for your references to fill out here

This is not the Youth Application (it will be posted soon).

Checklist by April 1st:

Submit the application via email or mail
Make sure to request your references complete their forms via email or phone call (or print and mail) before the due date.
Make sure your social media business page or website reflects your current work
Be certain to email or link us to a video(s) of your best efforts with a horse in the last year or so. Just make sure it reflects who you are a trainer.
We do require extremely compassionate horsemanship, AVMA Vet guidelines to be followed and we never allow marginally debatable training or care techniques during this competition or training time period. Should trainers be found to previously or currently use training methods that do not line up with these requirements, they will be denied or removed.

Making More Horses HIGHLY adoptable is what this event is about.

Displaced equines that have been abandoned or neglect and turn them into awesome equine partners through pairing them for 100 days with trainers across the Appalachian region.

For 100 days, trainers work with their horse making him an accomplished, willing equine partner, and the pair competes for 2 days in August, ending in a free style competition, showcasing their abilities as a horse and trainer team.

The trainers stand to show their skill with difficult cases. The horses stand to gain knowledge that go with them into their adoptive homes, showing what rescues are capable of for many years to come.

Many people now know this region has an abandoned and neglected horse problem. We operate in the Heart of Appalachia.

This is an area that is often rural and battles abject poverty.

We believe the Appalachian Trainer Face Off can make more horses adoptable, prove rescue horses have value and highlight excellent trainers.

Essentially, the FACE OFF will go a long way bu bringing HOPE to previously neglected horses.

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