PG . 47 television show . After watching videos on Reining , it was the reining class that would eventually take precedence for Martin .
Martin found himself heading to the USA in 1987 to ride with the Colorado-based trainer , Steve Schwartzenberger , and Doug Milholland . When Martin returned to Australia he took up training reining horses , showing some good horses to great successes . Somewhere in 1988 to 1989 , according to the recollections of Rick Tranter , he , Martin Larcombe , Paul Farrell and Phil & Dot Rodey , met at Tamworth Showgrounds , as part of a small group of people who became the founding members of the NRHA , in Australia .
In 1997 , Rob Lawson , who was working in Italy at the time , called Martin to tell him of a training position going with Mario Erbetta . After conversations with Erbetta , Martin & wife Sam moved to Italy , and spent the next 8 years training in Europe . He won 4 Italian Open Futurities , & was twice the NRHA Open World Champion in 2004 & 2006 and managed the CS Ranch in Givrins , Switzerland , one of the largest private facilities of its kind in Switzerland . When the Larcombe family came back to Australia , Martin trained and showed a few horses and won the 2010 Reining Australia Futurity Level 4 Open Championship . He headed back to USA with his family in 2011 , to work again as the head trainer for the CS Ranch , at their new facility in Gordonville , Texas .
Martin competing at the reining events
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