Author: Tom Locke

  • Leading a horse

    You may have noticed that some riders, owners and/or handlers have trouble with the simplest things, even leading a horse.  Leading a horse need not be too complicated but we can make it so.  The problem is usually as simple as a lack of understanding and sometimes a fear of offending the horse or it…

  • Standing at the Mounting Block

    Standing at the Mounting Block

    Personally, I rarely use a mounting block at six-foot-two-inches I have a fair reach, even for an older person. But an observation is that a lot of people struggle to keep their horse standing still while they mount from a block. What I have found is that horses simply outsmart us, they are often one…

  • Rethinking Ray Hunt

    Rethinking Ray Hunt

    Now don’t get me wrong with that header, I’m not suggesting Ray’s “teachings” need to be rethought, but I am suggesting that some of our “interpretations” of Ray’s sayings certainly do.  The one that most comes to my mind is “the horse is always right”.   I firmly believe that Ray was correct in saying that,…

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