Let's join the conversation that the late Howard Hale had with Trainer Sharon Camarillo...
The best horse that I've ever took to the national finals, 7, this horse I bought from a cutting trainer, Leon Harold, when he was 3, he wasn't really broke. I got him broke. I was sending some cowboys on ranches to just put some miles on him. He's always a little volatile. My husband used to say if you ever get this one coming around he's going to be a good one but take a deep seat in the far away look. In the meantime, as a 5-year-old he's still trotting through the barrels and if you didn't cue him and show him he just trot on by. I thought, man, this is dumbest horse I've ever seen. I can't even sell him because he's not very smart. I had a horse that I was running. The horse got sick before we went to a big rodeo here in California, Salinas. So instead of turning out, I put this colt in and at that point the colt was 7. I always laugh when the horses are 3, 4, 5. I always say, well, you'll make a nice 7-year-old. This was a horse winning 7. I said he's going to make a nice 12-year-old.
That was California horsewoman and trainer, Sharon Camarillo.
