RELAXED AND FORWARD: Since 2010, an archive of weekly horse training essays. My dogs say it's their turn now. Happy to oblige, it's all affirmative. Including words from a gray mare on the fine art of aging cantankerously.
Calming Signals: YOUR Response.
Photo by Sheri Kerley I'll start with the bad news. For those of us who grew...
Calming Signals and the Aggressive Horse.
Just to be clear, calming signals are not something humans do to calm horses. It's the language horses use to...
Photo Challenge: Danger
The danger of horses is not their strength and power, thrusting forward with a brilliant heart, ribboned with intelligence, clean...
Calming Signals: The Dance of the Halter
We're breaking in a new farrier here at Infinity Farm. The new guy is soft-spoken, uses a nice pink hoof-stand,...
Photo Challenge: Wanderlust
It’s the irresistible call to scout hidden ravines and gaze along the elevated vistas behind the shade of an eyelash,...
Concept Clinics: A different approach
I've been thinking for a while now about the process of learning. It could have something to do with the number...
Equine Retirement Planning.
First, I watched Brentina's retirement ceremony. Then Secretariat's last race and Valegro's final Olympia freestyle. Who doesn't need to watch Aldrich's...
Bend… Like a Crescent Moon.
I arrived at the barn mid-fight. The barn manager was refereeing a dust-up between a trainer and a boarder who...
Touchy About Bits.
Confession #1: There was a time that I would have sold my soul for a spade bit with 12" shanks....
Touchy About Contact
Question from a reader with a mouth-sensitive green horse: " ...when I watch a video of me riding I worry that...
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