Ed grew up on a cattle farm in western Pennsylvania. His dad raised Hereford mothers and produced calves for sale. He loved horses from the time he could walk, and always wanted to be a cowboy.
Ed started riding colts for the public at age 13, and as he says "I got knocked around more than I should have." His neighbor, a draft horse man, showed him the difference between force and willingness to learn in working with horses, which changed his life.
Another of his neighbors was a calf roper. When Ed started calf roping as well, his dad preferred that he hang out with the ropers instead of the local boy scouts. Ed started going to horse sales with those gentlemen, and then started buying and selling horses. When he left for veterinary college in 1969 on a rodeo scholarship to the University of Colorado, Ed had a new truck and horse trailer, and $10,000 in the bank from horse trading.
That summer, Ed answered an ad in Quarter Horse Journal from a Montana ranch seeking cowboys for a cow/calf operation. He stuck that out for a year, and found that he had enough of his life-long dream to be a cowboy.
From there, he went to work for a farm in St. Louis training Arabians. After a year there, Ed went to Westfield, New York, for another training job. As a full partner, the harder he worked the more money he made, which suited him. The next operation was a sale barn in Lisbon, Ohio, and the largest shipper west to east. During the first year at that operation, 1046 horses came through the operation, and Ed rode 1046 horses.
Ed then married, began rearing his children, and has been raising, training, buying and selling horses for the last 25 years. At his farm, he has ridden 505 horses for the public. Time after time, in fixing horses with people problems, and helping people to get along with their horses, Ed has found that he was working with horses that people shouldn't have bought. Ed's purpose with Buy the Right Horse is to make sure that his clients are matched with the right horse for them.
