I’ve heard it said, and firmly believe, every moment you spend with your horse is a training moment – whether you want it to be or not! Training, in this sense, means more than teaching correct leads or a fluid side pass; it means shaping our horse’s behavior for better or worse by how we [...]
A good trainer should have facilities and horses that reflect his or her horse abilities. Be a savvy consumer when it comes to finding a trainer for your horse – check out how the trainer’s facilities and horses look and talk to past clients. Your horse is worth it!
If you have a horse that motors into a gallop everytime you ask for a canter while riding or on the lunge line then you might want to start from square one back in the round pen. Most of our problems with horses can be attributed to “Us asking but the horse isn’t listening” or “Us asking and the horse not understanding”. Both of these scenarios can be solved with the proper building blocks of basic training practices and good riding.
How we ride our horses, and our level of commitment to being better riders, can eliminate many common behavioral problems in a horse. Good riding helps a horse to develop physically and mentally so he becomes a wonderful riding companion and a talented performer.
What do you do when your horse dodges away from you while trying to mount? There are several possible reasons why this happens. In this post I address what some of those reasons may be and provide one way to counter this misbehavior in a horse as well as shed light on some other reasons your horse may be doing this.
