A Lateral Drill for all Horses
Every horse regardless of their discipline, can benefit from lateral work. My answer when someone asks for “drills” is usually this: get them good laterally! Lateral work is the basis…
Horseback Riding 101
For years I’ve thought about this- but wasn’t sure I could make it work. I made excuse after excuse! I knew it would be so much work. So. Much. Work.…
Horsemanship for Barrel Racers – A Clinic
Well, it appears I shared my upcoming clinic with everyone but you good folks here. Better late than never though, right? So if you’re free this weekend (October 1-3) and…
Advanced Rollbacks
A good rollback is one movement – a stop to a turn around, and off we go! That said, I want my horse to wait on me, not anticipate, the maneuver. Here’s how I accomplish that!
Choosing a Horse Trainer
When choosing a horse trainer the options can be endless. With this article, I aim to help you decide what’s important to you, what’s important to your horse, and highlight…
Curing the Fidgety Horse
The last thing any horse really wants to do is fidget. No, seriously, think about it. If you’ve watched them in the pasture, when they’re not eating, they’re lazing, and if they’re young and full of energy, they’ll play for a bit and go back to eating or lazing. They’d rather be at peace than bothered, and to me, a horse that paws is a horse that’s bothered.
Speed Control
We like our horses to tune into our seat and our body, so we can use the reins and our legs to refine the cues we give them for turnarounds, rollbacks, spins, or gathering up so we can do a canter pirouette (or swap directions quickly to corral an unruly bull come fall). Plus, anyone else can use “whoa” or “ho” and that might mean something to our horse when we don’t need it to.