Exploring topics on horse training & welfare
From the monthly archives:
By a strange and poignant coincidence, I bought a copy of Ray Hunt’s book Think Harmony with Horses the day before he died. The book is currently out of print… but is well worth tracking down a second hand copy if you can. If not, I will share with you Ray’s thoughts on horse training [...]
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A book of Zen Questions by Robert Allen has me contemplating how his words can help us in achieving our aim of dancing with our horses, understanding them, and becoming a better horse person.
Robert says:
We are afraid of “don’t know”. It smacks of ignorance or worse, indifference… What do we really know? In reality, very [...]
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Plenty of people say ‘I want my horse to trust me’. But what does ‘trust’ mean?
To me it means that the horse can:
Trust that YOU are consistent in your aids (signals)
Trust that YOU won’t ask him to do anything beyond his capabilities at this moment (e.g. to accept a rider when he has not [...]
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I would love to hear your comments on the comparison between a trained Lusitano cattle-horse and a Grand Prix dressage horse. Perhaps you would like to have a look at this and give me your thoughts, or maybe even go a step further – what about a comparison of the 3 videos?
The door is [...]
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How should you work and train in a session? Here are a few tips from Anky’s visit to Equitana a few years back:
Always start in rising trot, horses and riders are often stiff to start out.
Make sure your horse relaxes in between bouts of work in a training session – go on a long rein [...]
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