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Communicate with Your Horse The time you spend with your horse can be more fun when you understand the way a horse communicates with you and you with your horse. Voice You teach your horse certain words of command: walk, trot, lope, trot on, whoa, easy, and more. The tone you use with your words [...]

Learning how to ride a horse isn’t as easy as the trainers make it look. For instance I use my hands and reins to control my horse and rate his speed way more than I should.  Now I know better and I’ve spent years learning how to ride a horse but, still when I get [...]

This video inspires me to want to work with my horses more. Showing your horse in a performance event should be a reward for your many hours of work with that horse. You can see in this video that Clinton Anderson has spent many hours with this horse. And even though he competes in the [...]

In his book Horses Don’t Lie Chris Irwin has this to say about how we affect our horses behaviors. “In other sports, if you’re not having your best day, it doesn’t bother your equipment. Your golf clubs don’t care if you slice and your surfboard doesn’t care if you fall off. Horses, however, care intensely. [...]