2024 Clinician Academy
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April 1 - May 17
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Downunder Horsemanship Ranch
Farmington,
AR
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Clinton Anderson Performance Horses No Worries Club
May 19, 2020
New Release in Performance Horse Training Series
Training session four is getting underway in the Performance Horse Series: Reined Cow Horses. The first video to be released is a training session with 3-year-old stallion, Hulk. Clinton explains the warm-up exercise Hinging, works on Hulk’s responsiveness in the Advanced Rollbacks exercise, and then focuses on working a mechanical cow. No Worries Club members […]
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Fundamentals with Phoenix
May 15, 2020
Fundamentals With Phoenix: How to Train Your Human
Lesson 7: Summon Your Inner Energizer Bunny This week’s lesson is all about the dreaded L word – L-U-N-G-E – as in your human forcing you to trot or lope endless circles for 30 minutes straight while they continuously crack the air behind you with a lunge whip and cluck every 15 seconds. The never-ending […]
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Training Tips
May 12, 2020
Training Tip: Ride Solo When Introducing a Horse to Trail Riding
When I’m taking a horse out on the trail for the first time, I prefer to ride out by myself so that it’s just the two of us. When you get two or more horses on the trail, they have a tendency to want to race one another and get reactive. And, when you do […]
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Walkabout Tours
May 12, 2020
Teaching a Horse to Lope on a Loose Rein
When Clinton brings the Walkabout Tour to the Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell, Montana, in August, he’ll share a variety of in-depth training demonstrations. One of the session will focus on how to teach a horse to lope on a loose rein with confidence. Clinton invites two horses with loping issues into the arena. While […]
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Sponsors
May 12, 2020
Life Goes on for Your Horse
By Ritchie Industries You’re hearing it everywhere—we’re living in unprecedented times. The virus we’re all facing as a country and as a world has people everywhere adjusting to new social distancing practices. Our way of life has changed, and we have to adapt to care for the things that matter most, like our horses. When […]
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Fundamentals with Phoenix
May 9, 2020
Fundamentals With Phoenix: How to Train Your Human
Lesson 6: You’re in charge. Prove it. Need a quick plan of attack to derail your human’s efforts?
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Training Tips
May 5, 2020
Training Tip: End a Trail Ride on a Relaxed Note
One of the best things you can do for your horse is to let him walk the last hundred feet or so of a trail ride. That gives him the opportunity to relax and cool down so that he returns to the barn or trailer in a good frame of mind. You don’t want him […]
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No Worries Club
May 5, 2020
May No Worries Club Exclusive All About Grooming
This month’s lesson is all about grooming and building your horse’s confidence about standing quietly while you work around him. Regularly grooming your horse isn’t just about making him look good – it’s an important factor in ensuring he is healthy and happy. Throughout the training session, Clinton works with Zorro, a yearling at the […]
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Downunder Horsemanship - General Shop Downunder Horsemanship
May 5, 2020
How to Care for Your Bit
If you don’t make it a habit to clean and oil your horse’s bit on a regular basis, more than likely, it’s caked with crud — pieces of dried hay and grass and whatever else might be in your horse’s mouth. Depending on the type of bit you have, or how long you’ve neglected it, […]
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Fundamentals with Phoenix
May 1, 2020
Fundamentals With Phoenix: How to Train Your Human
Lesson 5: Intimidation is Your Friend Whenever you find yourself around humans, imagine that there’s a four-foot circle drawn around you. For a lack of a better term, we’ll refer to it as our personal hula hoop space (I may have heard that somewhere before?). It’s like an invisible electric fence designed to keep your […]
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