OFI 1303: How To Turn Your Love And Knowledge Of Horses Into A Business | FFA SAE Edition | Raley Downing | Troy High School FFA
Off-Farm Income · Matt Brechwald
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Show Notes
Our guest today is the 2021 National Proficiency Winner in Equine Entrepreneurship, and after listening to this interview it will be clear why she was selected.
Raley Downing has been riding horses since before she can remember and barrel racing since she was four years old. Horses, cattle and agriculture have always been a part of her life. While she was in the 7th Grade, already showing great ability to train horses, her older brother had a horse he didn't like. He gave that horse to Raley to see if she could make something of it, and she did. She recognized that the horse did not have the cow ability that her brother was looking for, but that it could be a good horse for barrel racing. She trained it, sold it, paid her brother back for his costs and made a profit. A business was born.