Riding is hard. If it were easy, everyone would be experts. Getting on the back of a large flight animal takes some bravery. Sometimes we have to be braver than we want to be. Horses can only respond to the information they are receiving. That includes our emotions. Sometimes we have to be more persistent than we want to be. Horses will challenge us when they feel confused, insecure or our request is hard. There will be days when we have to push past and through the r

Why isn’t buying a foal cheap? I’ll attach post 1 at the bottom. Foals sometimes come out and everything is perfect. Sometimes they come out and we have issues to resolve. Sometimes they are here for a bit and need some support. Foal 1 this year struggled with nursing. While she didn’t create an additional expense, it took several hours of investment. If I billed those hours, getting her nursing and stable cost about $375. That’s just day 1. She developed a terrible case o

Our attitude has a pretty big outcome on a session with our horse. Monday wasn’t good for most of my horses. Tuesday it stormed, so I opted not to work them because I didn’t want the storms to create a repeat of Monday.

I love these clinics! It is fun to see a like-minded group of people get together and learn. The conversations and comradery are an added benefit. This is a safe environment to learn more about the inside of your horse and figure out how to influence your horse with training to build what we are learning about. I love those that bring their horses and gets hands on experience. The auditing option gives people opportunity to observe and decide if they want to participate