I rode Rosie for the first time on Saturday, and she did excellently! Rosie is a mare who I did quite a bit of groundwork with last year, such as desensitization to bareback pads and a big green ball. She’s a smart mare and a quick learner. Rosie was in a foster home for a [...]

Here are four good reasons why you might want to use a mounting block the next time you get on your horse:
1) Using a mounting block is better for your horse’s back.
Jumping up into the saddle is quick and easy for you, but you could be putting a lot of strain on your horse’s withers [...]

This is an incredibly impressive video. Watch the Metropolitan Mounted Police perform at the London International Horse of the Year Show in 2006. See three horses jumping in sync over a jump, horses jumping through fiery obstacles, riders taking on and off their jackets while jumping, and at the end, even taking off their saddles while [...]

Shiloh is a young dun QH gelding who I’ve been playing with at the rescue where I volunteer. He spent 90 days at the beginning of this year with a local trainer who mainly uses the Parelli program. He is curious, but shy, and prior to training, he was incredibly skeptical of people. The [...]

I spend a lot of time on the ground these days. Not because I’m getting bucked off, but because I choose to. As I’ve explored different natural horsemanship methods over the past couple of years, I’ve learned about all sorts of new ways to play with a horse without climbing into the saddle– from obstacle [...]