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Have you ever dealt with a disrespectful horse? They can make normally safe situations dangerous. I have had to train a few who started out respectful of humans, but ended up mean and aggressive.&nb...
When I mentioned to a friend that a colleague had bought a part Cleveland Bay horse (actually, a Thoroughbred-Arabian-Cleveland Bay), she quizzed me as to why a breed would be named after Cleveland ...
Poor Tory had been getting more and more crabby. When being ridden, she was less inclined to move forward, and when she did, she moved hollow, with a roach in her back. She was moving so inverted th...
One of the more difficult aspects of Lady's training was getting her to travel balanced while going to the right and taking the right lead at the canter. Not all of Lady's unbalance can be attributed ...
If you think judging is hard, imagine how hard it is to rank adorable little tykes on cute ponies in the leadline class. It’s especially difficult to judge leadline classes in schooling shows ...
I was observing a junior rider while she was schooling her horse. The horse, ridden in dressage tack, was moving in a nice soft frame, round and on the bit. They looked as though they were schooling...
There was a time when many horse owners would bring their colts in from the pasture in the spring and then would let any cowboy they knew jump on them to begin their training. Well, today, man...
Being a good boarder isn’t difficult, but you wouldn’t know it by the way people move their horses around from barn to barn. Most people probably think that if they pay their board on ti...
It all started when I looked at a Dutch Warmblood for sale on behalf of a friend who later changed her mind and suggested that I look at her as my potential next horse.
I’m not ...
I was thinking back when I was a young man and got my first horse. It was a very important day in my life. My sisters had already got their first horse and I was being teased that I hadn't receiv...
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