Author: Julie Goodnight

Reflecting on the best of 2012: We’ve taped, edited and aired 116 episodes of Horse Master since 2008. Oddly enough, even though I work with hundreds of horses and riders each year at clinics and expos,

Recently I was in Hamilton, New Zealand, as a clinician at EquiDays, their national horse expo. I met a lot of great people there, including three talented horsewomen,

In every clinic that I teach, there are riders eager to canter; all they want to do is canter-canter-canter and maybe work on lead changes. Then there are those who want to canter but dread it, especially with 15 horses in the pen and everyone watching;

There’s a lot to being a trainer’s horse. You have to be well-trained and know your role. Julie Goodnight just brought home a new AQHA horse named Eddies Pick. Here’s his story of what it’s like to be the boss’s horse and how life changed when he happened upon the Goodnight ranch.

Horses are instinctively herd-bound. It’s one of seven categories of instinctive behavior in horses and it is known as gregarious behavior. Quite simply, it’s desire to be with others. (By the way, the other categories of instinctive behavior in horses are flight, combative, ingestive, eliminative, reproductive and investigative behaviors.)