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This is a quick clip from an online 2 year old western pleasure horse training clinic with multiple Western Pleasure World Champion Trainers, Cleve Wells, Rusty Green & Shane Dowdy. This is a quick tip from Cleve Wells on teaching a horse to lope properly in the side-pull. Video Rating: 5 / 5

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 [...]

All Around Horse Winning Your Class Begins with Choosing the Right Horse Showing to win begins with choosing the right horse.  Often we try to make the horse do the event we want them to  rather than choose a horse who is born with natural talent for the event in which we want to compete. [...]

A video of western pleasure horses and some horses at halter song by Carrie Underwood – We were young and beautiful… Related Pleasure Horses Articles

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 [...]

Ok maybe it’s just me and you haven’t fallen into this particular horseback riding trap…Or maybe you have and just don’t want to admit it. What’s the trap? Read on and find out… You love your horse and aren’t sure how to really get them finished for a particular riding discipline for example western pleasure. [...]

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 [...]