No jaw will become supple with force. Force creates more resistance and eventually requires more force.

Some helpful tips while you are trailering out to your summer events!

Don’t get me wrong, they need to learn to tie. I just believe teaching them to stay is helpful as well.

You will get farther faster than trying one more time after a good execution. Exhausting your horse mentally and physically will not get…

You have to give to get. This concept is hard for us humans. We don’t blindly trust. We expect proof our trust is warranted.

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A responsive horse is a thinking partner. A reactive horse is a dangerous acquaintance.

I am a huge fan of tongue relief in the horse. I don’t like anything that collapses around the jaw or tongue. The horse needs to be able to swallow, lick, and chew with restriction. I also like being able to have independent action on each side of the mouth to promote suppleness instead of bracing. My go to bits are generally Myler brand.

Your horse didn’t volunteer to go to the show. Enjoy the ride and thank them for their efforts. They are solely there fulfilling our dreams

Lunging your horse should not look like you are flying a kite and the kite is trying to pull away from you. Remember all ground work translates to your ridden work. If you have allowed your horse to run around in a circle, haunches flying to the outside, head pulled to the inside fighting against the resistance, why would you expect anything different under saddle? Lunging should not be about getting the fresh off, wearing the horse out, running them in circles. It should hav

I wrote this several years ago. It popped up today and is still true. If a horse makes it to 4yrs old at our house and I have started it, it’s likely not leaving my house. I like them. I have too much time in them. It would take someone with a special connection and a check with multiple zeros behind the first number to get them out of my pasture.

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Adding two crooked beings together doesn’t magically make straight.

When you have a problem in a gait that is not resolving, you must gear down

The stiffness I feel on the ground, she also exhibits in the saddle.

I refused to spook with her. I allowed her to work through her emotional troubles. I did not try to prevent the emotional overloads.

These timers have been a life saver coming into summer. I have them set to come on mid day to refresh waters in the heat of the day. I turn on the manual timers at night to fill the troughs up. The timer automatically shuts them off. So no more forgetting to turn off the water! They come with more than one zone if you want I have one I can hook up to 4 hoses to battery operated.

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