Your car doesn’t turn sideways to change lanes. Your horse should stay straight as well.

Stop watching your horse’s head. Look up. Fussiness in the head and crookedness in the neck show a horse is crooked in the body and not coming through the back. The more we focus on fixing the head, the worse our problem will become. Control and containment of the head is never a solution to the problems we are having with our horses.

Quality trumps Quantity every time. In a perfect world we have Quality in Quantity.

In an intense situation you revert to your level of training. Your brain goes to what has been practiced, rehearsed and learned. There is no time to dissect, plan and execute.

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Horses draw on knowledge from previous experiences. Think of your relationship with your horse a bit like writing a book. Each day is a page in a chapter. Each month is a chapter. What is contained in each chapter will build your horse and help them to understand how to proceed with information in new chapters. The horse will reference the previous chapters to determine their reaction to what is happening in the current chapter.

Taking a break! It’s ok. Your horse enjoys them as well. But what happens when you come back to work? The horses haven’t forgotten their training. That’s not how they work. But they will have lost some condition.

If you get sucked into riding the poor transition, that is what the horse will continue repeating.

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Let’s look at some videos to identify some gait irregularities that will either create pain or are caused by pain. Noticing gait irregularities can help you identify an issue in your horse and address the root cause.

Shoulder in doesn’t mean neck in….or haunches out

Can my horses stand tied without feed?

Salvation comes from chewing action. Chewing action helps with relaxation but there has to be some relaxation for chewing. Your hands can’t create this relaxation. Your hand can create chomping, gaping and grinding. That is not chewing. This guy is packing a bit during ground work. After several weeks of packing the bit we are getting good salivation. But it had nothing to do with the bit. He was very disconnected in his hind end and tight in his back. He could not hol

Tying while trailering

Training pyramid or Training Pentagon?

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You don’t have to canter every ride. Your horse won’t forget how.

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