Today, we have another horse training question from Ellie. She writes: My question is… My 6 year old mare Misty is always so alert when we are at horse shows. She reared the last one and knocked all the jumps over. I’m really worried that if this dosen’t stop I might have to [...]
Today’s horse training question is from Debra. She writes: My horse accepted being bridled when I bought her with little problems. After working with her she was fine with it. Now all of a sudden she throws her head, lifts it high in the air. and wont let me near her to get [...]
Today’s horse training question comes from Ellie. She writes: “My mare Misty, a 6 year old, always spooks when she hears the sound of water. I’m trying to teach her not to so when she is older I can ride by rivers. What should I do?
Ellie, thank you for your question. Here is [...]
Today’s horse training question comes from Richard. He writes: “My Clydesdale 3 yr old has just started to lift her head up sharply as I take off her bridle. she even went back on her 2 hind legs trying to get the bit out of her mouth ….help please”
Richard, thank you for your [...]
Spice is now officially part of my horse family! It was a hard decision to make… on some level I wonder what I am thinking, she’s not an easy mare to get along with… but the bottom line was that she will push my horse training abilities to the next level. She isn’t the type [...]
Today’s horse training question comes from Susan, who writes: “I have a three year old I have just started He was doing great but all of a sudden he has decided to either run his shoulder in to the rail or back up really fast. Any ideas on how to stop this?”
Hi Susan, thank you [...]
Susan writes: I bought a horse, he is 3 years old and not trained, I have lunged him and he has done okay. But now he has become dangerous, he is being mean to the other horse he’s with and he acts very jealous of her. The last time I was training him on the [...]
Mary writes:I am in the process of training a mustang. I am working him in a
30′ round pen right now. I’ll trot him counter clock wise and he does ok, then when he trots clock
wise, he goes about half way, then stops and puts his head over the pen and throws his head up and [...]
Your horse’s position around the barrel is important, and needs to be trained correctly at a slow speed before you take the pattern fast. You want your horse’s nose to stay soft around the barrel. The bend in his neck should match the bend of the circle you are making around the barrel. Don’t let [...]
The following horse training question comes from Denise: “I adopted a 21 year old Arabian gelding in July. He was very skinny, but basically sound. Minor conformation problem in right front leg, but moves nicely after being trimmed a few times. He is now at a point in his health that he can [...]
