He was bred and trained under saddle by Mike Barlow before being sold to Lisa Jones as a four-year-old.

For a time after the sale, Courageous Lord remained in training with Barlow, but when he was injured the owners put Courageous Lord in training with Merrill Murray, a Canadian native who lives in Versailles, Kentucky.

His second was the 2009 Lexington Junior League Horse Show, where he won the five-gaited Championship.

[1] Courageous Lord was named Horse of Honor by the United States Equestrian Federation in 2012.

The same year he was sold to Fox Grape Farms and put under the training of Steve Wheeler.