Why You Should Stop Patting Your Horse | Martin Black on Western Horse Training
We pat our horses to tell them they did well. Martin Black says the horse would rather we kept our hands to ourselves. He has spent a life inside western horse training — starting close to five hundre...
10 Aug 1h
Monty Roberts, Alexandra Kurland, and the Future of Horse Training
When I was eleven, my mom handed me The Man Who Listens to Horses. Last week, the man who wrote it died. Within days, the horse world also lost Alexandra Kurland — the woman who spent decades convinci...
4 Aug 18min
Your Saddle Fits a Horse That No Longer Exists — Letitia Glenn on Horse Care
You measure with your hand while he stands there. Then he takes a step, and the horse you measured is gone. Saddle fit is horse care. I rode my whole life before anyone said that to me plainly. I met ...
22 Jul 1h 16min
Horse Training and the Nervous System: What's Really Happening in Your Horse's Brain | Dr. Stephen Peters (Pt. 2)
We say we want a willing horse. Then we climb on, and we start cramming. And when the horse gets tight, or slow, or stuck, we do the one thing that guarantees it gets worse — we add pressure. This is ...
14 Jul 50min
Your Horse Isn't Being Bad — Dr. Stephen Peters on Horse Behavior, the Nervous System & Learned Helplessness Part 1 sponsored by Total Feeds
Every rider has said it. He's being stubborn. She's testing me. He knows better. Here's the harder, truer thing underneath: the horse isn't being anything. The horse is a nervous system, doing the one...
7 Jul 52min
Joe Stockdale on Riding Confidence, Grief & the Show Jumping Career He Inherited
Everybody wants the clear round. The win. The photo at the top of the podium. Here's the part the sport keeps offstage — the doubt, the grief, the voice at the in-gate asking if you even belong here. ...
30 Jun 1h 5min
How to Read Horse Behavior — Elsa Sinclair on the 5 Types of Leadership
There is a question almost every one of us carries to the barn and never says out loud. Not how do I get him to do this. But: does he actually trust me — or is he just complying? This is Part 2 of my ...
23 Jun 1h 5min
What If Your Horse Could Say No? Elsa Sinclair on Freedom Based Training Part 1
Most of us learned to ride before we ever learned to ask. We learned the halter, the rope, the pressure, the release. We learned how to make a horse do the thing. And somewhere in there, quietly, a lo...
16 Jun 57min
