Horse Riding Training

Horsemanship is very important to Horse Riding Training and so much moor.  Thanks, to good horseman like Tom & Bill Durrance, Ray Hunt, John Lyons, Dennis Reis and more, the term horsemanship no longer means grooming, leading and feeding. Now we think about things like “Unity, softness, & harmony” between the horse and rider. Now becoming obsolete, thankfully, are such devices as tie-downs, twisted-wire snaffles, lunge lines, side reins, mechanical hackamores.  Instead, through education and an understanding of the horses mind. We can help the horse feel confident and secure in our environment. This is our responsibility to the horse.  This new approach of working with the mind of the horse is a common-sense one.  There’s nothing mystical about it.

“Horsemanship” is the human’s ability to create unity with the horse from feel, timing, and balance.  This is achieved through understanding the mind of the horse.  The result is a calm, content horse that exhibits suppleness, straightness, energy (or” life”) and flexibility – all the things necessary for any discipline of riding. We need to develop the ability to understand what the horses are telling us by reading their expressions and, further, by fulfilling their need to be comfortable on the inside.  The horse is the best teacher there is if you can learn to listen, but for now you may need someone to translate the horse’s language into human terms.

Humility, time, dedication, discipline, patience, and self-awareness are the major ingredients to achieving a confident, soft, willing horse. This is a tall order to ask of oneself, but by thoroughly following this path to horsemanship you’ll not fail the horse.  Finally let the final judge of all work be the horse, for you can always believe what he says.  We begin the program by laying a foundation for Horse Riding Training.