I've had lingering anxiety when it comes to cantering ever since my fall off Junior. Junior's a sweet boy but he's got Thorougbred brain, where some times everything means canter and nothing means stop cantering ( Read more... )

Hey all, I've posted here once in an introductory post back in March or so. I own two horses. This post is about my ASB, Wiki, who was literally only saddle broke when I got him.  I got him in September 2009 and started taking lessons the following December when I realized I couldn't "train" him on my own. I'm pretty intermediate with green ( Read more... )

I have a girl in my 4H club who is a small teenager. She's a first year novice hunter rider, and she rode western for two years before that. She does not own a horse, but has leased three different horses from two different programs. The first horse she had was an old gaited horse, and the second horse was an old schoolie pony at my barn who is ( Read more... )

schooling show of the season ( Read more... )

I've decided I really hate cantering to the point where I want to cry. I get unbalanced, I feel really out of control, panicky and I can't breathe. My instructor says I have to keep progressing with my riding but doing canter honestly just scares me so much ( Read more... )

I'm currently re-conditioning a 29-year-old American Saddlebred gelding.  I've been working with him since mid-January and he has come leaps and bounds; I could not be happier with his progress.  But, in the last few weeks I've had trouble working with him on his left-lead canter.  He works very well on his right (once he's gotten his racehorse ( Read more... )

01. In this economy, my job is very unstable right now. There are strong indications I might lose it in the next few months. If I'm unemployed I'll need my savings for pesky necessities like bills and food and I can't make riding a necessity. I know it's commonplace for teens to volunteer at barns and work in exchange for lessons but has anyone ( Read more... )

I know this isn't going to be exciting to most anyone, but I had to squee about it to someone who would understand.

My horse Indy and I are getting ready to meet a trainer for the first time (a result of this post), and I've been working hard getting us both in shape, or at least a shape that doesn't resemble a circle. He's been doing well, though ( Read more... )

So...kind of an odd request, but does anyone have a link they could post to a good quality video clip showing canter transitions? You know, where the horse is just walking, or trotting, along in the [hunter/dressage/jumper] ring (or Western) and then...picks up the canter, and then canters around for awhile and comes back down to a trot (or walk ( Read more... )

So I have a mistake and need some emergency training advice. ( Read all about it, plus a few pictures because I know you love them... )