Speed will never fix anything. It only gets you to the wrong place faster. Speed does not need to be practiced

You will never give your horse too many breaks.

You aren’t at war with your horse nor are you competing with your horse.

I am a super slow learner

Wisdom Wednesday

We can condition our horses into dysfunction. Dysfunction leads to pain. Pain leads to poor behavior.

Prey hide pain

Learn to walk away

The horse could put a stop to our riding instantly. It s a gift that they allow us to ride. Don’t take it for granted.

Keep calm

Dysfunction or function

Persistent patience

Continuing education

Wisdom worth reading

Stop striving for perfection

Sorry the posts this week are late. I was at a CEU with not enough service to upload anything.

Are you listening to your horse?

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

Pain creates panic. Our horses are prey animals. As such they are masters at hiding pain. The weakest horse in the herd gets eaten. By the time your horse is expressing lameness or undesirable behavior due to pain, they have been in pain for a long period of time (unless it is a traumatic injury). If they are exhibiting changes in body use, gait and hoof morphology, the pain has been there and hiding for awhile. Having recently had surgery with uncontrollable pain, I can at

Having horses is expensive. Most of us try to save where we can. Investing in good equipment and proper care is important but expensive. I have a few musts for horses leaving my program. It’s to keep the owner and horse on the best track forward in their relationship. Some owners head the advice. Some don’t. The ones that don’t usually end up with far more problems.