The Tennessee Walking Horse

horse? A. Avoid a “Big Lick” show horse, even if the seller insists that you can simply remove the shoes and create an instant trail horse. A Walking Horse bred…

Controlling Movement (Part II)

…or troubled horses, as well as horsemanship that emphasize the mind and behavior of the horse. Her instruction reflects her passion for equipping both horses and humans for success on…

Longe Your Horse with Confidence

…the horse should go forward. That sounds obvious, but watch someone trying to longe a horse if they don’t have that objective clearly in mind-they’re all over the arena. Horses…

Understand Your Horse’s Language

…win the Road to the Horse competition illustrate how she quickly created trust with the horse she drew. It also exemplifies one of Westfall’s basic rules in horse training: the…

Dressage Today Letters to the Editor

…is also referenced. Bitless schooling of the dressage horse alleviates muscle injuries to the horse, teaches the horse self-carriage, teaches the horse collection, teaches the horse balance, teaches the horse

An Open and Shut Gate on Horseback

…teach a show horse are going to come into play out on the trail,” Bonham says. In fact, Bonham’s former show horses often make excellent trail horses because they already…

Help Your Horse Age Gracefully

When is a horse old? Every horse is an individual. How quickly a horse ages isn’t necessarily related to his calendar years. Some horses look time-ravaged in their teens, others…

Inside Look: 2011 Road to the Horse

Horse Champion. This year’s clinicians are Clinton Anderson, Chris Cox and Pat Parelli. These competitors will select a horse out of the remuda, a group of 10 horses, and begin…

Cure the Cinchy Set Back

…panicking, maybe even falling down. When a horse sets back, there are likely two issues: the horse’s reaction to being cinched up and the pulling-back problem if the horse is…