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Long lining is a technique that many trainers use to start a horse or to introduce new steps in training. Unlike lungeing, when you use long lines it gives you the flexibility to ground drive, double lunge, or work in hand. That’s because with long lining you have a rein attached on either side of […]
Read MoreNot every ride goes according to plan. I’ve had a few where after I mounted my horse it seemed that nothing went right. My horse wouldn’t listen, I felt I couldn’t ride, and what should have been a pleasurable experience became an exercise in frustration. Funnily enough, it often happens when I most need the […]
Read MoreI know this topic has been covered before — Behind the Bit did a posted on this several months ago — but tonight I came across some amazing photos of the diving horses of Atlantic City in the Life Magazine collection on Google. It is such a mind-boggling stunt that I still find it difficult […]
Read MoreYet another great commercial from Budweiser. This video makes me think of Freedom, my TB. Freedom was always my spare horse . . . the horse that I thought would eventually become my hunt horse. I had him in training and was slowly asking him to do more. When Kroni died this fall, he got […]
Read MoreThere’s someone on the Chronicle of the Horse Forum with the signature line: My horse is only afraid of two things: 1) things that move and 2) things that don’t move. I had a day like that recently. It was very windy today with the gusts blowing leaves everywhere. Freedom has only just gone back […]
Read MoreWhat a disappointment! I found this great Web site that promises you that you can train your horse and stop bad habits . . . within minutes . . . and the link to request the horse training secrets that more than 300,000 horse owners have used successfully . . . doesn’t work! Now I […]
Read MoreThe Micklem Multibridle offers three bitless configurations that offer increasing levels of control. To accomplish this, the bridle uses different pressure points on the horse’s head, rather than simply increasing the pressure on a single area (for example, a hackamore is more or less harsh depending on the length of the shanks). As I wrote […]
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