Extend Your Horse’s stride

…for extending your horse’s strides at the walk, trot and canter applies equally to the horses you ride at home. Before You Begin Lengthening your horse’s stride is a relatively…

Chat Transcript – Clinton Anderson

…much rather my horse stand in a pasture all day than in a 12×12 stall. Horses love wide open spaces. EquiSearchStaff – horsecrazy…your question is on our list…it’s coming up…

Stand for Fly Spray

…the horse to give to pressure easily. Continue to work with the horse until you can spray the air without the horse objecting. Then position the horse and turn the…

An ID Kit for Your Horse

…take horses from private property, horse shows, boarding stables and a variety of other places. (See the June 2004 issue of Perfect Horse.) Natural disasters. Horses are sometimes separated from…

Step Into My Trailer, Please

…but don’t use it to try to pull the horse into the trailer. The horse’s back end will tell his front end to step forward. Allow the horse to stand…

Controlling Movement (Part IV)

…you rub your horse on both sides of the physical pressure. Let the first contact you make with your horse be a reassuring rub. Rub until your horse accepts the…

Longeing Lessons for Your Horse

…the movement. Done well, longeing is a wonderful tool. Old horses, young horses, horses recovering from stresses or injuries, and those at shows or events where there’s no place for…

Trailer-Loading Trouble

…tapping as a reward. If the person stops tapping and tries to pull the horse forward when the horse backs up, the horse gets confused and doesn’t recognize that the…

Horse Camping

…their horses’ hooves, horse-campers seem especially willing, ready and able to help newcomers. Second, has your horse ever camped? Some horses readily adapt to camping. It’s like they do it…