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...
Circling Back: How We Became One.
We were hooked and it was written all over us. The first weird looks passed between our parents. We were...
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