My family  has owned and trained horses for the last two centuries. My great uncle trained thoroughbred  horses  after coming to the states from Ireland. One of my uncles was very successful training and showing quarter horses in the the early days of the AQHA. My father has owned or trained racing thoroughbreds my entire life.  As a teenager, I worked for   King T Leatherbury, the nation's third-winningest trainer of all time. When I was young I received  the problem horses in our racing stable. I have raced horses from New York to West Virginia.  From a early age, I found that all horses are different in their personality. For the most part, thoroughbreds are  breed for speed. With that said, temperament is the last thing top breeders are looking for.  I worked with very difficult horses and I was trained in how to control them. In the last 10 years, I have learned so much more attending various natural horsemanship clinics. In many cases, I was taught how to control certain vices but was not told why it worked. 
   Although, in my early days of racing I liked the challenge of working with a difficult horses. I enjoyed the pony horses that were used to exercise and transfer  thoroughbreds back and forth from the track. These horses were a mixture of quarter horses and paints. They were extremely broke and had excellent temperaments. They were a joy to ride and take care of. For 10 years,  while my father was training out of  Delaware Park. I was in college and working in the Operating room. In 1993, I moved to North Carolina. In 1996 we purchased the farm and shortly after that, I seen my first Blueroan Hancock Stallion purchased in Wyoming. After reading and studying the history of the Hancock  bloodlines, I decided that this was the foundation quarter horse lines I preferred.  They are noted for their excellent temperament  and bone. More information can be found on the Hancock breeders website www.hancockhorses.com