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Confidence Lost and Found – Overcoming Fear

January 19, 2022November 1, 2020 by Anna Blake

“You have to let your heart be soft. You have to let your love be just an inch bigger than your fear.” Photo by Anna Blake

Ever notice how horse stories all have the same plot? We get a new horse, usually the wrong one. There’s a period of struggle. We get bad advice, we lose money, we get bucked off. We persist, two steps forward and one step back. In time, the horse ends up …

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Confidence Lost and Found – Overcoming Fear

November 2, 2020November 1, 2020 by Anna Blake

“You have to let your heart be soft. You have to let your love be just an inch bigger than your fear.” Photo by Anna Blake

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Training Your Horse to Hate the Arena – Less Correction, More Direction

September 1, 2020 by Anna Blake

“Ride like nobody's watching.” Photo by Anna Blake

Does your horse go better out of the arena? It seems like some horses just won’t go forward and no amount of kicking and yelling work. Sometimes they’re gate sour: fast toward the gate but then getting away from the gate is a wrestling match. Horses who are great on …

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Select A Winning Trainer – Positive Feedback and Constructive Critique Essential Traits for Instructors

August 14, 2020 by Theresa Rice

Photo by Teresa Rice

Perhaps you have a new horse that needs finishing and you’re asking for recommendations for a good trainer to send it to. Or maybe you’ve hit a plateau in your progress with your current mount. Whatever the reason you’re searching for a trainer, my number one recommendation for how to …

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What to Do When Your Horse is Wrong – Affirmative Training Shapes Behavior

August 5, 2020July 30, 2020 by Anna Blake

Training is directing your horse toward something he doesn’t know. Photo by Anna Blake

It started the way it usually starts. Either the horse looked to the side or the rider pulled on her horse’s face. It’s the fundamental disagreement; the rider thinks it’s her right to control the horse and the horse doesn’t like having metal jammed on his jawbone. A common miscommunication, …

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How to be Your Performance Horse’s Best Friend – Listen to Horses in Their Own Language

August 5, 2020June 30, 2020 by Anna Blake

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The horse is relaxed and soft, volunteering his best answer to the rider’s quiet cues. Whether a competition horse or your trail horse, a sweet and successful partnership requires two-way conversations. Find a deeper connection with your horse by listening to his calming signals—the subtle body language horses use to …

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Teaching Timing

August 5, 2020May 12, 2020 by Teddy Franke

This month I want to talk to riding instructors — people who teach other people to ride from the middle of the ring — as opposed to trainers who teach the horse. Whether your client is horse or human, a key ingredient in training or riding is timing. The skilled, …

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How to Start Your Horse on Cattle – Slow and Steady is the Best Strategy

August 5, 2020March 1, 2020 by Kenton Wright

Photo by Jessica Wisdom/Equilibrium Equestrian

Do you want to train your horse to work cows, but you’ve never worked cattle before? Maybe your horse is an off-the-track Thoroughbred or does dressage or western pleasure and has never seen a cow. Maybe he tends to be flighty. All that is okay, and you should be excited …

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Tips for Buying a Kid’s Horse – Youth Horses Need Special Qualities to be Suitable for the Job

August 5, 2020January 1, 2020 by Kenton Wright

Photo by Kenton Wright

So, it’s time to get that horse-crazy child of yours a four-legged creature affectionately known as a “pony”. How do you go about deciding what’s right for this next phase of life? What do you look for? As a father of a horse loving 7-year-old boy, I’ve had to answer …

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Trainer’s Corner: Give Your Horse the Responsibility

August 5, 2020October 1, 2019 by Evan Bonner

Direct Your Horse and Let Him Do His Job By Evan Bonner Does your horse take the initiative in his work? Why should we ask our horse to be responsible? Do you allow your horse to be accountable for his actions, and how do you do that? I believe …

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