July 2011 Blog Posts (43)

From Spirit to Bit

Since I finally found a tack repair guy willing to make the reins of my Spirit bridle shorter I could not use my Spirit bridle this week. Deprived of my new tack I sat looking at all my other bitless options and I remembered the sort of dead feeling contact with them. I decided to see if I was right with my hypothesis that the feel of the Spirit bridle was so much like that of a bit that I would have no problems switching back to a bit. So I sat looking at my…

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Added by Jackie Cochran on July 3, 2011 at 12:10pm — 1 Comment

Your July Horseyscope by Lauren Bode

Cancer June 21 - July 20

I believe this year will be a hot one for you.

You will be moving so fast, it will be impossible to

stay in touch. Keep up the good work. You are giving your horse

a lot of attention and affection. He needs both at the moment as

he is just coming out of a serious training period.

Leaving the past behind may be good for you, who really knows?

It will depend on your… Continue

Added by Barnmice Admin on July 1, 2011 at 11:16am — No Comments

Get Serious about Laughing.

There is so much debate currently about methods of training: German vs. French, classical vs. competitive, natural horsemanship vs. anything with an English saddle. It can get adversarial.

Most people agree that finesse is better than force in horse training, but we seem to have a hard time agreeing upon a definition of what those words actually look like in technique. That starts the debate…

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Added by Anna Blake on July 1, 2011 at 8:42am — No Comments