Recent content by ilikehorses17

If he canters off, teach him to one rein stop and shut him down the second he starts to take off with you. It starts on the ground in a halter teaching him to bend lightly. Progress to bit from the ground. Then practice practice practice at all 3 gaits in the arena. This becomes a great tool...

I'm working with a 4 year old right now and we just overcame some pretty major spooking issues. It started on the ground doing lots of desensitizing. We started with just desensitizing to flinging a rope all over her body, around her legs etc, then desensitized to long lines (hard for a lot of...

I have been lightly riding my 4 year old. She has somewhere between 30 and 40 rides on her now. Done tons of natural horsemanship groundwork and desensitizing before I started her. We had 6 feet of snow all winter where I live but that didn't stop me from doing desensitizing work with her...