If your hands are too busy, the horse can’t hear the rest of your aids.

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Are you listening to your horse?

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Our horse can’t advance forward in functional movement, with functional posture, if we are pulling on the reins.

Help for our equine friends suffering from fly allergies

What would your horse say about you if they could tell me?

Large animal veterinarians are becoming extinct. Even more endangered are equine veterinarians. Why? Being an equine veterinarian is...

Many times our horses need the opposite of what our brain and body want to do. A good portion of riding is overcoming what our body wants...

I’ve touched on this topic before: the cohesiveness of your professionals. It is essential that the professionals you choose can...

There is no guidebook because the answer when finding the right path is, “It depends”.

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Part of enjoying horses means feeling safe while we are on them. Let me just say that riding a 1/2 ton prey animal is never 💯 safe. But...

However, just like that sponge, the horse learns and retains more when the aids are released vs applying more pressure.

How do we refeed a starving horse? Carefully. You can literally kill then with kindness. Google refeeding syndrome. Giving a starving...

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