Does anyone know what the general idea is surrounding judge/rider eye contact and matching tack in shows ( Read more... )

Hey guys ( Read more... )

one of my favorite horsemen, ray hackett, is going to be teaching natural horsemanship (including rehab) in hudson, ma this summer. you can sign up by the day or week, and earn hours towards ma licensing if you're working that way. contact me and i'll send you the form, or you can reach him directly at neworldride@aol.com :)

Okay so... Ive randomly jumped into doing english and western pleasure. The first half of the summer shall be purely western pleasure as I do not currently have an english saddle that fits my rumpus ( Read more... )

Martin Black is an old-school cowboy and one of the finest horse trainers alive so it was a real pleasure to spend a few days in France last week watching him teach his approach to horsemanship.

I've typed up my extensive notes, uploaded a bunch of pictures and posted the whole lot here. It was a pretty interesting few days and if horsemanship or ( Read more... )

I was having a conversation with someone at my barn today about horses that have been trained to use the spur stop, and how the new horse coming in for a month is trained to do it. I know it's a AQHA/APHA thing for their circuit horses. The gelding coming in is an AQHA circuit horse shown primarily in HUS, and it's a really odd thing to ride ( Read more... )

Saw this come across my facebook news feed, and I'm looking forwards to hearing about the outcome of this competition ( Read more... )

I love stop-motion animation, and I thought these were hilarious. I checked the Youtube tag a hundred entries back and didn't find them, so I think they haven't been posted recently.

( Cutting and reining, demonstrated by a German animator! )

Hello fellow Equestrians :)

So I was just reading the post about Anky moving to reining, (here:  community.livejournal.com/equestrian/5953935.html ) and all the comments that went along with it.

After watching Anky's video, and the video of Gunner (the horse who apparently holds the world record at a score of 233), a thought popped into my head: Do ( Read more... )

Hi all ( Read more... )