Learn To Ride

Identify your problem, then use these strategies to get back on your way toward your goals.

Animal scientist Temple Grandin, PhD, offers insights into your horse's thoughts and feelings--and how they affect his behavior.

America's Horse Daily has answers as to why your horse won't stand still for you to mount.

World champion trainer Sandy Collier shares horse training secrets in her book, "Reining Essentials: How to Excel in Western?s Hottest Sport," adapted for Horse&Rider magazine.

How easy is it to pick up the correct lead? Much easier if you think like a horse.

Teach your horse to control his spooky behavior by working him on an obstacle course with Linda Tellington-Jones's help.

Pointers on changing your methods if your horse is difficult to catch.

AQHA Professional Horseman Bennie Sargent shows you how to achieve power steering. From the AQHA's America's Horse Daily.

Improve the bond of trust between you and your horse for enhanced trail riding performance using TTouch with Linda Tellington-Jones.

Get a handle on your riding related fears, with this 10-step self-help program from a sports psychologist.

The late Bill Van Norman wrote a series of articles in America?s Horse about the time-honored vaquero training methods. Those vaqueros had to be pretty resourceful, as Bill tells us about here.

There has been a trend in judging to credit a rider who?s on a really good horse but is not truly functional. The rider is perched on the horse like a statue and is not effective in what she is doing to control the horse?s performance. In American Quarter Horse Journal, Lynn Palm tells how to become a functional rider.

July 12, 2011--Problems linked to a rider not trusting a horse show up in a number of ways. From America's Horse Daily.

Horse-buying mistakes are costly and heartbreaking. Avoid them with these key tips from master horseman and clinician Clinton Anderson. From Horse & Rider magazine.

To best help your horse get the best care and training possible, get help yourself from a qualified and professional horse trainer. Read on to learn the hallmarks of a great trainer and some strategies to find the best trainer for your horse.

In the final training series from Dr. Platt, she discusses teaching your green mount how to move away from pressure before you climb aboard and how that can alleviate some of the frustrations that can come with that first ride or two.

Dr. Platt continues her series for the Kentucky Horse Council with more tips for the beginning rider.

Writing for Kentucky Horse Council, Tammy Platt continues her series for the beginning rider.

Writing for the Kentucky Horse Council, Tammy Platt gives advice for beginning riders: A horse with little or no ground manners presents a set of challenges that may at first seem insurmountable. While there are obvious problems with this type of behavior, there are some underlying issues that can make training more difficult as well.