Training Tip: Horse Personalities: Cold-Blooded Horses
While the Method works on all types of horses, every horse will require you to vary your approach slightly….
Training Tips
Training Tip: Horse Personalities: Hot-Blooded Horses
While the Method works on all types of horses, every horse will require you to vary your approach slightly….
Training Tip: Ride As Many Horses As You Can
If you have a desire to be a great horseman, I encourage you to ride not only as many…
Training Tip: Correcting A Faulty Spin
For a horse to be textbook correct when spinning, he should plant his inside hind foot. Horses that tend…
Don’t Bore Your Horse To Death
Once your horse understands an exercise, it’s important to move on. There’s nothing horses hate more than being forced…
Training Tip: Your Horse Testing Your Leadership Comes Naturally
It’s very natural for horses to establish a pecking order. More often than not, the top horse in a…
Training Tip: Ability and talent in a potential prospect
If I’m considering buying a performance prospect, a little test I always do to see how athletic, willing and…
Training Tip: Are you teaching your horse to have fidgety feet when mounting?
A horse that constantly moves around when you go to slip your foot in the stirrup is not only…
Training Tip: Approach and Retreat Over Obstacles
Most horses will try to stop and back away from an unfamiliar object initially because they’re nervous and unsure…
Training Tip: Teach your horse vertical flexion at the canter on a circle
I’ve found that introducing vertical flexion at the canter to a horse on a circle makes it easier for…
