Problem Solving: Handling Horses To and From the Pasture
If your horse drags you to the pasture and bolts away from you, kicking up his heels and tearing the lead rope out of your hand before you even have a chance to take the halter off, you’re asking for trouble. It’s not a matter of if you’ll get hurt, but just when. Dealing with […]
With the Fundamentals, Intermediate and Advanced Series, Clinton has laid out a step-by-step guide to putting a solid foundation on a horse in order to succeed in any discipline. However, Clinton’s instruction doesn’t stop there. Did you know that the clinician has specific training series geared toward select disciplines? In the video series, “Barrel Racing […]
Find It on the No Worries Club: Win a Day With Clinton
Tara and Danae Best won a “Win a Day With Clinton” contest and got to spend an entire day training their horses with Clinton and improving their horsemanship. Their experience was captured in a two-part television series, “Win a Day With Clinton Anderson.” The series offers countless tips to improve your horsemanship on the ground […]
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Training Tip: Can Groundwork and Riding Exercises be Done at the Same Time?
I often get asked if when teaching a horse the Fundamentals can you work on the groundwork and riding exercises at the same time? People often wonder if it’s better to teach all of the groundwork exercises first, and then start to work on the riding exercises. At the ranch, when we get horses in […]
Whether you’ve set a horsemanship goal to accomplish or a specific objective at work or in your personal life, if you want to reach it, you better be focused. Each year, when the new class of Academy students arrives at the ranch, Clinton spends the first morning welcoming the horsemen and explaining how the course […]
When it comes to horse-tying situations gone badly, nothing is as scary as a horse reacting in cross-ties. Because of the way cross-ties are set up and how they apply pressure to the horse, if a horse reacts and resists being in cross-ties, it can result in him rearing in an attempt to escape the […]
The last time the Walkabout Tour landed in Conroe, Texas, Mindy was still a regular on the road with Clinton, the Fundamentals Kit hadn’t been produced, and the idea of an app hadn’t even been dreamed about. That was back in 2009. When the two-day event sets up camp at the Lone Star Convention and […]
A halter is an essential horse keeping and training tool, and the quality of the Downunder Horsemanship halter is unsurpassed. Deciding what size of halter to get for your horse is important for your horse’s comfort and to ensure that the halter is an effective training tool. If you’re an inexperienced halter shopper, or haven’t […]
Find It on the No Worries Club: Understanding Horse Limitations
I leaned forward and tapped the air in front of the gelding’s nose again. Although the expression on his face and his perked ears told me he was taking my cue seriously and trying to please me, he dragged his feet backwards, shuffling his lanky, 17-hand frame away from me. After he’d taken a few […]