Category Archives: News
Back To Work (Part 2)
Part 2 of bringing your horse back to work. Today, his second day back in work, Tally is long-reined and Kate discusses the reasons for starting here.
Back To Work (Part 1)
This podcast series focus on bringing a 6 year old Australian Stock Horse stallion back into work after 9 months off.
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…
Avoiding Problems When Using the Round Pen
The Round Pen – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Some years ago I made a video about how to use the round pen as a training tool. This is now used as a teaching resource at Charles Sturt University in their Equine Science course. Yesterday I received an email from one of the…
What Your Horse Needs To Know
Foundation Lessons Your Horse Needs to Know BEFORE You Mount: Give to the Bit – This will teach your horse to give to pressure, softness in the bridle and to carry himself in frame. These lessons keep your horse’s attention on you and really ‘teach him to learn’. He will feel some pressure and it…
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…
Achieving Riding Goals
It is time to really think about what we want to achieve with our horses in 2015 and how we are going to do that. I am thrilled to say that I have found some brilliant software for helping you do just that! Click here to learn all about it!
A Quick Rule Of Thumb
I was reading a Facebook post the other day where the writer was describing the ‘training’ of her horse that ‘put up a performance’ when being wormed that morning. As the horse misbehaved she decided to tie it to the ‘tree of knowledge’ or ‘patience tree’ to teach it some ‘manners’ and ‘respect’. She went on…
Getting Enough Advice?
What is it about horses that makes everyone seem to have to state their opinion? You don’t even have to ask a question but you are often still given unsolicited advice. Ride this way, use this bit, this system, potion, method and so on. So, what do you do about it? Trust yourself! Something that…