In the past year or two, my eyes have been opened to positive reinforcement training and all of the ways that we can use the horse’s “happy hormones” in training instead of leveraging his fight or flight instinct alone. While...
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We get it -- braiding can be tricky. Between the rubber bands, yarn, spray, scissors... the list goes on. There’s a lot to keep track of and trying to apply perfectly looking braids on a moving animal isn’t as easy...
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Multiple days of back-to-back Olympic competition, halfway around the world, and under the glare of the sport’s most prestigious and unforgiving spotlight would be enough to rattle any rider’s nerves. Add to that a couple of four-feet-wide open water trays...
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Independent of one another, horses and humans are magnificent creatures capable of great things. Together, however, they make magic; they jump, they fly, they dance, and they take each other to places only a team of two could go. What...
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How to you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. But it’s not quite that simple. Because there are lots of people out there riding horses, every day, hours a day, who aren’t as good as others who ride one...
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