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Training Tips
March 17, 2015

Training Tip: Expand the Comfort Zone

When you are desensitizing your horse to a new object, keep in mind that resistance is normal. Often, the reason for resistance is related to the horse’s desire for safety and comfort. Imagine a bull’s eye on a target.

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Clinton Anderson Downunder Horsemanship - General
March 17, 2015

Spice up Your Partnership With Trick Training

According to Clinton, teaching his horses tricks has made them happier in their jobs because of the variety and challenge it provides. Here’s what the clinician has to say about incorporating tricks in your program: “Consistency in a training program is key to getting a well-broke horse. I often tell people, ‘Consistency is your greatest […]

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Training Tips
March 10, 2015

Training Tip: Work With Your Foal Now

Raising foals is a lot of fun. The thing to remember when you’re raising a foal is that the little things make a big difference – both good and bad. Using the Method to work with a foal just 10 to15 minutes a day for the first six weeks of his life will lay a […]

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Clinton Anderson Downunder Horsemanship - General
March 10, 2015

World-Class Horses

You’ve seen good performance horses work. They move with supreme athletic ability – sliding, turning back a cow, spinning or effortlessly executing a lead change. It’s clear they’re in the right job – they have the conformation, the bloodlines, the attitude and the training to do what’s asked of them, and they do it well. […]

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Training Tips
March 3, 2015

Training Tip: Mental & Physical Stimulation

When horses feel safe, comfortable and have enough food and water to sustain them, their next need is stimulation. Your horse needs to be stimulated both physically and mentally on a daily basis. As with many other things when working with horses, you need to balance between the mental and the physical. You have to […]

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Training Tips
February 24, 2015

Training Tip: Softness in Your Horse

Horses have a natural instinct to pull and push against pressure – not give and soften to it. So every opportunity you get, teach your horse to soften to pressure. You always want your horse thinking of how he can give and soften to pressure rather than thinking of how he can resist, stiffen and […]

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Clinton Anderson Downunder Horsemanship - General
February 24, 2015

Learn the Method at the Ranch

A few more horsemen can join Clinton at the ranch in Stephenville, Texas for instruction in the Fundamentals level of the Method in this spring’s 10-day Fundamentals Clinic. The life-changing clinic that has helped hundreds of horsemen create a partnership with their horse and progress their training is being held May 8th – 18th. If […]

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Training Tips
February 17, 2015

Three Great Training Tips from Top Trainer Clinton Anderson of Downunder Horsemanship

Tip #1: Fix the cause, not the symptoms. The majority of horse “problems” (such as bucking, rearing, biting and pawing) aren’t really problems at all, they are really just symptoms of a cause. Seventy to eighty percent of all the problems you will ever have to deal with as a horse owner will fix themselves […]

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Training Tips
February 17, 2015

Training Tip: Turnout Safety Tips

#1 – If you’re turning your horse out with other horses, get the other horses away from the gate before leading your horse through it. People often suffer serious injuries turning horses out because they’re unaware of herd dynamics of horses. When you throw your horse into a herd, the other horses will react, and […]

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Academy Clinton Anderson Downunder Horsemanship - General
February 17, 2015

It Just Works

Because of Clinton’s cowboy image, most people who hear about the Method assume it’s just for western riders and horses. Nothing could be further from the truth! The Method is nondenominational – Clinton created it to get results with every horse, no matter the horse’s age, breed or what discipline he is being used for. […]

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