It is surprising to me to see well-trained dressage horses leading from place to place as badly as they do. Leading is such a valuable tool for the connection and relaxation you have with a horse when you ride, especially a dressage horse. A horse can be well trained, but if the willingness and acceptance are not there the performance suffers and so does the horse.
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The purpose of my blog is to make a connection with you. I can connect with people all over the world, thanks to the computer, and we can explore and correspond with one another on the experiences we’re having with our horses in our life! I also use the blog as a way, to educate, to raise consciousness, and to use philosophical viewpoints that will lead to a better relationship with horses; for training, partnering, and performance.
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A few benefits you will gain from practicing this lesson is how to communicate with your body language, how to get your horse to wait, your horse learns to come when called, and that your horse can move away when you ask him to. Sounds Good! If you have any questions please post them.
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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;
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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.
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I train horses and conduct horsemanship clinics for a living. My job requires that I ride numerous horses on any given day. By this time in my career, I suppose I have ridden thousands of horses. These horses have ranged from un-started colts to backyard pleasure horses to the finished bridle horse.
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Before you worry about riding your horse one handed, you need to make sure you have excellent control two handed. Start practicing by riding with your hands in a position where it will be easy to transition to one handed riding,
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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.)
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Riding up and down hills is a fun and challenging part of trail riding. Sometimes people run into problems with their horse wanting to rush up or down a hill, getting anxious, and not feeling safe or in control. This month we will cover how to ride up and down hills,
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Doing anything in a herd of horses has the potential to be dangerous. If you don’t have the respect of every horse in your herd, you can be run over or inadvertently kicked as your horses establish their pecking order. It is very important that you establish your leadership in the herd to maintain your safety. If one horse kicks or threatens another horse while you are in the area,
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