Trail Riding Advice

…Pay more attention to your horse than to the other horses. You can’t control someone else’s horse, but you can control yours. The more out of control another horse gets…

A Buddy System Shape-up Program

horses’ basic manners are sorely lacking. And those of us who own young horses may grumble that we don’t know what else to do with our weanlings, yearlings, and 2-year-olds…

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…

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…

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…

Step Into My Trailer, Please

…go forward cue, we stand facing the horse’s left shoulder. Our left hand holds the lead rope a few inches below the horse’s chin to prevent him from turning to…

Trailer-Loading Trouble

…the horses that I loaded into trailers of all types for clients were all lacking in one or more components of basic ground school education. • Many horses get “stuck”…

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…

Let ‘Em Eat Hay

If I had to sum up the direction that feeding horses is going, it would be back toward the basics. Overall, I see a trend developing to feed horses as…