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  1. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    I haven't the time to ride or work with my horse lately. We only rode once this month. He's noticeably starting to fall out of his training. He's disrespectful and pushy on the ground. He's always been a bit like this, but I used to ride so much, like 4-5 times a week, that it wasn't really an...
  2. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    So thoroughbreds are usually known to be more highstrung, spicy, anxious, etc. What can I do to prevent and help my horse from being this way? He is usually cool as a cucumber. He is actually one of the most mellow TBs I’ve ever known. We only have problems when we do something new. I mostly...
  3. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    How do you personally teach your horses to keep going until you ask them to stop? Specifically during lunging, How do you keep your horse in a trot / lope until you tell them to switch to a different gait or stop. I have a mare that is very stubborn and will pick up a trot / lope and then slow...
  4. Stallions and Broodmares
    This is my best friend's Andalusian stallion named Xander that I wanted to share because he is a gorgeous man!
  5. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    Hello! I recently found out I’m pregnant. I’m still super early along, but of course I’m thinking of the one thing that bothers me the most with pregnancy - not being able to ride. Especially over the warm spring and summer days :( I finally got my horse in a very consistent schedule riding 2-3...
  6. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    After many years of riding and research m, I've recently gotten my first horse Pearl. Pearl is a 23 year old ex polo stock horse, so when I tried to lunge her I thought she'd be fine. And she was, going one direction, but when I tried the other she seemed confused and didn't know what to do. I'm...
  7. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    I have had this horse for a month or two now, and I’m not sure if she’s barn sour now or what but when I first got her she lunged fine. But now she likes to stop by the gate, or just stop anywhere, turn her butt to me and stare at the barn. I’m not in a good position anywhere cuz she tends to...
  8. General English Riding Queries
    Curious what everyone does. (WithOUT a Caveson). I usually will lunge my horse prior to riding if she is a little more excited than usual. This time I’m doing it to test a new bit to make sure she’s okay with it before I get on in case she tries anything funny… … I was always told to run the...
  9. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    Hi All, I’ve recently bought my first horse (been riding for a longgg time though). She’s only a baby (5 years) and hasnt done a lot. I’ve been trying to lunge her to get her used to my voice and make sure she’s in the right head space for me to get on but she absolutely refuses to send out...
  10. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    Hi there, I'm an endurance rider, mostly ride Ayrabs, but now also riding a Standardbred off the track. Hillbillie Willie is doing great, and have been working hard on him the last 1 1/2 yrs at going with his head down and not pulling. You know, the opposite of a racehorse! Like I said he's...
  11. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    Hi! I'm new here, so I'll start with a quick explanation of my situation. Sorry if this is long -- I've never been on a forum before, and I want to make sure I'm coming across clearly. I'm 19, and I have quite a bit of experience with horses. My mother was a horse trainer earlier in life, but...
  12. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    Hi, I recently bought an unhandled 5 year old welsh pony. When I bought him, he couldn't be touched, caught or approached. The presence of a handler in the pen with him made him anxious and flighty. I have finally gotten him past this problem, and he is fine to lead and catch. He free lunges...
  13. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    I just adopted my first horse: a 2 year old halter broke gelding from a rescue farm. His mother was a brood mare, and he was separated from her at a very young age and just left in a paddock to suffer from rain rot basically. Amazingly, he is a sweetheart. It's so tempting to spoil him, but I...
  14. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    Hi! I just started working with a new horse. He is an ex-racehorse with lots and lots of energy. He is also a hunter so we have done a few freestyle jumps with him in the round pen and he has been doing great. But, you can tell that he is getting bored. Any ideas of something to do while...
  15. Horse Videos
    Hey guys, just another cold spring morning training I wanted to share with you, hope you enjoy. :pinkunicorn:
  16. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    I am trying to get my 2 year old TB filly to move for me and not getting any progress. She seems completely desensitized to the whip or any sort of pressure and will just stand there or fight with me. When I first began doing exercises with her she was responding accurately. Now when I hit the...
  17. Horse Tack, blankets and Equipment Queries
    I love my gelding Buck. Prior to my ownership over a year ago, he was always ridden in a twisted wire gag bit by an inpatient 10 year old girl who wouldn't make him mine. Her mom and my mom have been best friends for over 20 years and she gave him to me for my 16th birthday. He wasn't ridden...
  18. General Riding queries
    Hello all! I recently bought a rope lunging aid that was suggested to me by my horses physio..but..I have no idea how to use it! It goes on the withers, through the legs and to the halter or bit however when I took it out of the bag, the rope had a metal ring on one side, what is this for...
  19. Training, Performance Problems advice & queries
    hi all! Its been a while since Ive been on the forums. My horse Pluto & I had some issues today & i was hoping to get some advice. I'll try to keep this short! (brief backstory) I've had my horse Pluto for a little over 3 months now. He's an 18 year old, 14.2 hh arabian who was pretty...
  20. General Riding queries
    I know I know, this isn't really horse riding, but I just need some help with it. My horse needs a good 15 minute lunging before I ride her to get her pent up bucks out, and get her mentally focused on me so I can get her attention in saddle. The only problem is, she swings her head to the...
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