Condition Your Trail Horse
…begin: First, groom your horse. Grooming stimulates circulation and allows you to check over your horse’s entire body to see whether anything is abnormal. Then outfit your horse in good-fitting…
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Finding the Right New Owner
…horses with new owners, but whose advice carries to selling horses of all types. “Since horses can’t talk, it’s our responsibility as owners, sellers, buyers, agents, and trainers to do…
Controlling Movement (Part I)
…to be alert, attentive and confident in order to learn effectively. Becoming the best horseman or horsewoman you can be enables your horse to become their best. Shaping our horse’s…
The Groundwork Waltz
…work, you gain more control of your horse. It improves any horse’s behavior in all areas. It can be a foundation to teach your horse to lead better, perform better…
How to Catch a Runaway Horse
…the horse you want to catch. We’re used to thinking of horses as coming directly toward us, but that’s unlikely, especially in the case of a horse who doesn’t want…
Feeding for weight gain
…flies. Horses can expend huge amounts of energy stomping, shaking and running away from pests like horseflies. If biting flies are a problem in your area, protecting your horse with…
Groundwork with Your Dressage Horse
Sometimes dressage riders think it is enough to teach their horses the movements, but they don’t take into account that a young horse needs more than just movements to excel…
20 Questions About Your New Horse
…wrestle her into my own two-horse straight load, I hitched a ride for her with friends who had a six-horse slant load and the horsemanship skills to encourage her full…
Stretching in Horses Has Health Benefits
…on the horse’s left side facing the horse’s side. Pick up the horse’s foot, as though you were about to clean the hoof. Place your hands on the leg between…
Horse Clinic Cafeteria
…own horse, and review how and why they should work. Be your horse’s advocate. If someone rides your horse in a way that’s unsuitable, don’t hesitate to ask him or…