When a horse is gripped by fear, he is dangerous. Learn techniques to prevent your horse from bolting and how to perform an emergency stop.
Training
People often practice trailer loading shortly before they need to go somewhere – a trip to the vet, meeting friends at the trailhead or hauling to a show. Sometimes, it goes great, but sometimes it doesn’t. Your horse may balk, …
A horse is rushing any time he goes faster than you want, or are comfortable with, and is difficult to slow down. For more information keep reading.
Have you ever been out on a trail ride and felt that things were going pretty good until your horse suddenly became distracted? Maybe he stopped listening to you, wanted to be with another horse or started jigging once you …
In order to fix resistance issues in your horse, you must become a detective, in order to discover the cause of the problem.
The following exercise has been designed to boost the confidence between horse and rider. It will help you with executing manoeuvres in a soft, focused way.
Trainers Anne Gage and Lindsay Grice discuss the possible causes and offer advice on how to eliminate the unwanted behaviour of bucking.
Your horse will act as the slinky as you perform a series of turn on the haunches, turn on the forehand manoeuvres all the way down a fence line or wall.
Do you often feel your horse could benefit from developing more strength in one area of the body? Here are eight strengthening exercises for horses.
It is so exciting to see that science-backed, positive reinforcement clicker training is catching on in the horse world. This type of training has been popular in the dog training world for a while and in zoos too, where the …
In part one of this series, in the September/October issue, you learned that by lunging your horse using the correct alignment, pushing the right buttons and using the right amount of energy, you’re speaking to him in a way that …
Flying changes are just that – a leap. But not so much a leap of the feet, as a leap of the mind. Your horse may be solid with his leads, never missing a lead cue. Nevertheless, as you now …
Your horse spooks at the plastic bag in the barn aisle…unless it has his treats in it. He doesn’t want to go past a driveway where someone has put out a garbage can. He has suddenly started to avoid going …
The exercise ‘Release to a Jump’ encourages your horse to engage physically and mentally in a free jumping challenge. Even if you don’t plan on jumping your horse, this exercise is a valuable tool that helps with good horsemanship, and …
Lunging is a valuable training tool that every horse person should be able to do well. It’s also something horse people often don’t agree on. There are those who believe that:
- free lunging is a better option than using a
