Category Archives: Confidence
One Day Clinic
This is the first in a series of one-day clinics to be held at ACT Animal Rescue.
A Good Start
It’s lovely to see happy, confident horses getting out and about. I started this young horse under saddle some time ago and asked his owner to write a few lines about him. Here’s what she said: “Lomond has been going really well lately, he is really starting to improve in everything but especially jumping. This…
Picking Up Feet
Teaching your young horse to pick up his feet safely, quietly and confidently. This was a recent question I received: “I have a brumby that doesn’t like picking his hind feet up for trimming and has been hurt in the past from a farrier and is now very evasive and just keeps turning in circles…
Riding Confidence
What’s it all about? Why is it so easy to lose your confidence? How do you get it back? Or is it just too late? Are you simply too scared/weak/female/old? And the questions go on and on. We have all asked them from time to time and it doesn’t necessarily take a nasty accident to…