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Tips To Improve Yield The Forequarters

  Yield the Forequarters is arguably the hardest exercise in the entire Method for people and horses to learn. What makes it so difficult? “That’s easy,” Professional Clinician Shana Terry says, “The problem isn’t that the exercise itself is that difficult, it’s just that most horses simply do not want to help you. By being […]

Training Tip: Horse Personalities: Cold-Blooded Horses

  While the Method works on all types of horses, every horse will require you to vary your approach slightly. I break horses into two broad groups – hot-blooded horses and cold-blooded horses. Cold-blooded horses are generally docile, laid back and relaxed. This category is made up of most draft breeds and some bloodlines of […]

Academy Training Horses

Our summer class of Academy Horses is well into its six-week course of learning the Fundamentals of the Method. After initial work in the arena, the majority of the horses’ training sessions are focused on the trail and working over the ranch’s obstacle course. By the time the horses graduate the Academy, they have plenty […]

Training Tip: Horse Personalities: Hot-Blooded Horses

  While the Method works on all types of horses, every horse will require you to vary your approach slightly. I break horses into two broad groups – hot-blooded horses and cold-blooded horses. Breeds like Arabians, Thoroughbreds and some bloodlines of Quarter Horses tend to be hot-blooded. These horses are generally very reactive, sensitive and […]

From Our Friends At Vetericyn: A Mountain Lion Of A Testimonial

It’s always great to read so many stories on the Vetericyn Facebook page from people such as Chris Gauley who recently shared his experience of an incident his young gelding suffered in 2012. “Last year my 4 year-old gelding, Bo, was attacked by a mountain lion in the pasture. The cat tried to take him […]

Training Tip: Ride As Many Horses As You Can

  If you have a desire to be a great horseman, I encourage you to ride not only as many horses as you can, but a variety of horses. Otherwise, you run the risk of fooling yourself into thinking your horsemanship skills are well-rounded. No two horses have the same personality, move the same or […]

NWC Contest – Show Us Your Favorite Method Exercise

Since summer is upon us and we’re all out working our horses and improving our horsemanship skills, we decided this month’s No Worries Club contest needed to be action-packed. There are more than 90 groundwork and riding exercises in the Method from Fundamentals all the way through Advanced, and we want to know which exercise […]

Training Tip: Correcting A Faulty Spin

  For a horse to be textbook correct when spinning, he should plant his inside hind foot. Horses that tend to plant their outside hind foot do so because they’re sucking back too much. While it’s generally a good thing to have a horse thinking “get back,” in this case, you want to get forward […]

The Man Behind The Method

Don’t Bore Your Horse To Death

  Once your horse understands an exercise, it’s important to move on. There’s nothing horses hate more than being forced to do the same exercise every single day. Humans are the same.