Natural Instinct: The Human Half
The more we riders understand about horse instinct, the better. Instinct is the starting place; a behavioral baseline from which...
Helmets, Gravity, and Human Superiority.
August 1st is International Helmet Awareness Day. It's the day Riders4Helmets started, in the wake of US Olympian Courtney King-Dye's...
Behavior, Personality, and Anxiety.
Can you tell the difference between personality, who a horse is, and behavior, what a horse does? With people it...
Consistency: Doing Math in the Saddle.
Consistency is a great aid but do you know how it actually works? There's an analogy I heard decades ago...
How to Ride like a Kid.
Remember riding when you were a kid? We climbed on top from a gate or a truck bumper. No bridle,...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Off-Season
Mud splashing almost always off-season here in Colorado, but this year the pond flooded so many times in May that...
Calming Signals and Equine Gastric Ulcers.
These are two of my favorite topics and I write about them often, but this post is about how calming...
Respecting Your "Other" Space
I assume your horse respects your space; that on the ground he stands a couple of feet away, relaxed and...
How a Runaway Happens.
You know that feeling when a wreck is going to happen but you just can't look away? It's a magnetic,...
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