I can't tell you how many times I've been told "Don't be friends with your clients. They're clients. It's a business relationship." I realize these people do...

Warming your horse up is important in every situation, but it becomes especially pertinent during the winter months. Cold and damp conditions mean muscles ge...

It is okay if you don't want to go to the barn today. It is okay if you don't want to go to the barn this week. It is okay if you don't want to go to the bar...

I often hear that it costs nothing to be kind. Your ego will tell you your friends will judge you for getting off when your horse needs help approaching some...

There are tons of commercially available horse feeds on the market today. So how on earth do you go about selecting the right feed for your horse? STEP 1) Ev...

I heard a fascinating theory from someone the other day, that stock horses cannot achieve suspension and lift. This is simply false. ANY horse can achieve li...

The last few sessions with Sid I have found a sudden struggle with turning in hand. I kept trying to steer him with my hand, and we’d crash into each other e...

Had a really spectacular lesson with one of my students today. Despite some really challenging body work and her horse being a bit fresh, you want to know wh...

Well, you guys said you’d like to see this, so here goes! For some context, Sid is an 18yo 16.2hh ~1300lb Oldenburg gelding. He is an EXTREMELY hard keeper d...

Softness is a way of living, not a training principle. When people limit their softness to an arena, they lose the most important aspect of it - a soft mind,...

Balance and it’s relationship to play is something many riders, and horses, confuse. For many horses, the only time they experience anything remotely like co...

This morning on Facebook, I saw an extremely popular clinician share something that truly baffled me. It was an image of the person doing groundwork with the...

As many of you know, I am a Cowboy Dressage Clinician. However, you often see pictures of me riding in my Dressage saddle. How does that make any sense?? The...

Professor Sid is here with 100 questions to ask when buying or adopting a horse! It’s always so stressful that sometimes we can forget to ask really importan...

I’ve been doing a lot of reading outside the horse world recently - specifically on the topics of leadership and organization structure. It’s slowly becoming...

Over the last several years, especially in the hunter/jumper world, half pads have become all the rage. They claim to absorb shock, distribute weight, and ov...

Hoooo buddy this one is going to be a doozy. Heads up **blood warning** on that second photo. Today I want to talk about why I refused to watch the LRK3DE. I...

So often I hear riders stating that they aren’t too big for their horse when they are. When pressed, they state that they aren’t overweight, so how could the...

I got several really good comments on my post yesterday discussing the issues with roundpenning/join-up. One stood out to me, though, because it’s a response...

I want to start this post off by saying I think a roundpen can be a valuable tool. I think it’s extremely helpful for youngsters - allowing them to get their...