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Horseback Riding Well that’s not exactly right. Your horse can’t read your thoughts but he can and does read the energy in your thoughts. To achieve success with your horse your horse back riding begins first in your mind. It goes like this. Each and every thought you have carries emotional energy with it. This [...]

Western Pleasure Horse To ride and show your horse in the western pleasure class it’s important to understand what the western pleasure gaits are and what they look like. AQHA has released an excellent video showing these gaits. This is a great video from AQHA on the Western Pleasure Horse. Even though it is a [...]

I hope you’re having a great summer. Summer seems to have finally arrived here in the northwest. It’s nice to spend more time outdoors with our horses. By this time you should have gotten two emails at least from me and have seen two Free Videos from Mark Shaffer. I got some feedback that one [...]

I’ve owned, bred, raised, worked with and been involved with quarter horses for over 10 years now and before that paint horses and before that a mixture of no particular breeds. I had my daughters involved in 4H and open shows when they were growing up. I got into breed shows when I owned paint [...]

The following from an email I received, “Bruce Gerrish, a great horseman, died suddenly on Sunday, December 13, 2009. Bruce knew how to make foxhunters. He was fantastic because he allowed the horse to be who he was while educating him in the sport.”

I just watched this AQHA Video with Alex Ross and Mike Moser and its an outstanding video. These two show you the difference in movement of a good western pleasure mover, why and how their conformation affects their movement and then go on to show us some not so good movement. It is very well [...]

Have you been told to sit deep in the saddle and try as you might you can’t figure out what they mean? I have! So this week when my trainer told me to sit deep in the saddle and I felt like I was dropping my butt down as deep as I could…I asked the [...]

My Friend Kevin Patton came over last night to visit with me. Since we both love horses naturally we headed out to ride and play with my horses. We watched each other and yelled out tips when we saw something that the other could improve on. My husband does the same thing for me. Just [...]

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