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  • It’s the small stuff

    It’s the small stuff

    Actually, it’s all about the small stuff, no matter where you are at in training your horse(s).  If you watch horses communicating with each other in the pasture, most of the conversation is small and subtle, a glance, a twitch of an ear, a nod of a head.  All of these signs come long before…

  • 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…

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