Claire Hunter’s Quick Tools and Tips
Excerpt from Turning Challenging Horses into Willing Partners due for release winter, 2010 Long lining: “Long lining is an amazing tool that I use with every horse that comes through my program.” Round pen: “I use a round pen occasionally when I have a horse come in that has respect issues and needs to learn […]
Horse Training tips from Kathy O’Neal’s down home perspective
Excerpt from Turning Challenging Horses into Willing Partners due for release winter, 2010 Defusing fear: Kathy notes she’s been trying to “engage horses’ brains more lately” by doing something as simple as walking over poles, or by rubbing them with a sack full of noisy items. “This makes horses think twice about running when they […]
Robert Fera on stallion training and management
Excerpt from Turning Challenging Horses into Willing Partners due for release winter, 2010 Editor’s note: Robert is currently working on the upcoming Horse Sense and Cents™ title, Bringing Up Baby. Look for future blog posts that invite you to view this work in progress and provide input on content direction. Dominance to the Extreme “I […]
Horse training seen through the mature eyes of young Kels Bonham
Excerpt from Turning Challenging Horses into Willing Partners due for release February, 2010 What Problem? “I haven’t really considered any of the horses we’ve gotten to be a problem,” Kels explains. “I’ve never had one that’s been vicious, a terrible stopper, or hard to control. I might have had minor issues to address like sourness, […]
Old English approach to young horse training
Excerpt featuring John Newborough from Turning Challenging Horses into Willing Partners due for release January, 2010 A bone breaker Most who have worked professionally with challenging horses have a story to tell about a charge to fix a horse that has hurt someone else who tried. “A man asked me, would I break a horse […]
Jutta Heinsohn’s dressage horse training perspective
Excerpt from Turning Challenging Horses into Willing Partners due for release January, 2010 “Even a professional is faced with situations that require trial and error. The difference between a professional and an amateur is normally the arsenal of information, experience, and techniques available to pull from. While many of the techniques are available to learn […]
Dennis Auslam’s Western perspective
Excerpt from Turning Challenging Horses into Willing Partners due for release January, 2010 Third Trainer proved the charm with Saddlebred Dennis talks about a long letter he received from a gentleman who had all but given up on his horse and subsequently concluded Dennis was a “gift from God.” “I had a Saddlebred that the […]
Training Horses with Denny Emerson
Training Horses with Denny Emerson Excerpt from Turning Challenging Horses into Willing Partners due for release January, 2010 Maturity provides insight “I think this is something that comes with getting older,” Denny admits. “There are two ways of addressing ‘my horse won’t do what I want.’ The mature, quiet, classical horseman will say, ‘this horse […]