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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.

A First-Time Foal Mom Employs The Method

MyHorse Daily editor Amy Herdy is embarking on one of the most exciting and trying experiences of horse ownership – raising a foal. The first-time foal mom has armed herself with Clinton’s Foal Training Series and is chronicling her journey of expecting and then bringing up baby in her blog. The first installment, titled “Foal […]

Meet Professional Clinician Brittany Huff

Next month, Brittany Huff will graduate as a Professional Clinician – the highest level of certification Clinton awards his students. As a Professional Clinician, Brittany is capable of instructing at the Fundamentals, Intermediate and Advanced levels of the Method, and she has received extensive training in colt starting, young horse development and reforming problem horses. […]

Fundamentals Clinic Highlights

Training Tip: Your Horse Testing Your Leadership Comes Naturally

  It’s very natural for horses to establish a pecking order. More often than not, the top horse in a herd is usually an old broodmare. How’d she get control of the group?

Training Tip: Ability and talent in a potential prospect

  If I’m considering buying a performance prospect, a little test I always do to see how athletic, willing and good minded a horse is, is practicing Lunging for Respect Stage Two. I do this for a couple of reasons. First, I want to see how willing the horse is to give to halter pressure. […]

Selecting The Performance Horse

Each year, a group of colts bred for their outstanding bloodlines, conformation, athletic ability and willing dispositions start their training as Clinton Anderson Performance Horses. While each of the colts has been bred for a successful future in the show pen, the reality is that not all of them live up to their potential. By […]