Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Mike Yarbro paid his way through college at Mississippi State University buying and selling horses and playing guitar, piano, and violin, in a rock and roll band. Before and after college he was a horseman and deeply involved in raising, breeding, showing, racing, and selling quarter and thoroughbred horses. He was a territory salesman with a heavy equipment company before he formed his own business which took him around the world importing and exporting road building construction machinery. During his working life he had thirty four surgeries, many bec...