I have had problems with my balance my whole life.  My faulty balance is part of the reason that I never really learned how to jump well.  It is probably also the reason why I never managed to get the results I wanted when I tried to use my seat aids to subtly influence the horse.  When I learned I had MS I finally realized why I was unsuccessful in attaining the highest levels of horsemanship.  They all require perfect balance.  This lack of balance is also why I…

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Emily Winegar is definitely another young rider with a career on fire. At just 15, she has already been crowned AQHYA World Champion in 2009 in addition to two previous reserve champion titles. Her other victories include winning the KRHA Sunflower Slide Futurity Open in 2005, an Open finalist at the NRHA Futurity, named the National Reining Horse Association’s Youth of the Year in 2008 and Palomino Horse Breeders Association Youth World Champion for the last four years. She was also featured… Continue

Showing can be expensive so it’s nice to know there’s a way to cut trailering costs and stay at home to do it. You can even compete against riders from all over the country while you’re at it. Thanks to developments by the International Performance Horse Development Association (IPHDA), it’s now possible to show your horses in western disciplines from the comfort of your home.



Entering is fairly easy. Simply go to the IPHDA website and choose from one of their… Continue

EquiSketch Dressage or Reining- Nicholas Garcia: $4.99 for either



Allows you to create, manage, share and view dressage/reining tests. You can even choose from arena sizes and colour code your test.



Pocket Stable- Road Apple Applications- $3.99



If you have a horse, you should probably have this app. It keeps track of everything from your horse, barn and vet… Continue

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January 20, 2011         

 

Ottawa, ON—The Canadian Reining Committee (CRC) is pleased to announce that at the conclusion of the 2010 FEI Reining season Lisa Coulter of Princeton, BC, has earned the top spot on both the FEI Reining World Ranking and World Standing Lists.                                

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January 19, 2011                                                

 

2011 Equine Canada Annual Convention will Feature General Breed Sport and Reining Judges’ Clinics

 

Ottawa, ON—The 2011 Equine Canada Annual Convention is set for January 24–31, 2011 at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa, ON, and this year two new clinics…

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Canadian Reining Committee Announces New Chair

 

Ottawa, ON—The Canadian Reining Committee (CRC) is pleased to announce that Gary Yaghdjian is…

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My latest, a little different from the rest. Not as outrageously funny, more poignant. What's important is the final message.

 

 

In it I make fun of everyone, myself included. It is of course completely ridiculous yet annoyingly true. I hope you all like it! (Dressage Queen with over 15,000 views is a hard act to…

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Hello All

 

Please take a moment to view the two attached links regarding the travesty that happened last weekend at the Festival of the Horse when…

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A year or so back I was searching the Web for unusual horsie sites and I ran into horsetrainingresources.com, run by Charlie Hicks. Though most of the stuff on this site is for the Western rider (reining emphasis) and is based on older American horse training, I signed up for his e-mails since I am willing to learn from any source. I am VERY GLAD I did…

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The best riders and trainers in the world will tell you that good training is that which is built block by block onto a strong, solid base. That base is comprised of the following six elements in that particular order:



1) Impulsion/Forward

2) Contact/Acceptance

3) Collection/Self-Carriage

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Gary and I are very pleased to be members of the Ontario Reining Horse Association. We are now part of the OBBO committee along with Chairman Harvey Stevens. OBBO stands for Ontario Born, Bred or Owned Futurity. Every year they have a successful stallion nomination program along with a very well run show that is held in London, Ontario during the Western Fair.



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December 6th Through December 12th



December 6, 2008– A horse named Peppy Superboom sold at the National Reining Horse Association/Markel Insurance Futurity Prospect Sale for $240,000, breaking the record for the largest purchase price ever paid at a NRHA sale. Peppy Superboom was born in 2006 and was sired by the NRHA Top 15 All-Time Leading Sire Boomernic. Peppy Superboom was consigned by Schmersal Reining Horses and was purchased by The Bucket List Syndicate. For more… Continue

i have a very weird question when you are training to neck rein you use direct and indirect reins....my question is how do you put the indirect rein on the horse bridle?? anyand all ansers are greatly needed thanks becca

Do you know that saying “It is like trying to fit a square peg in to a round hole?” Well sometimes we horse owners do that to our horses. We try to force our horse to do something that it doesn’t like to do. Let me give you an example.



I have been showing Valerie for about two years now in Class A Arab horse shows. All the classes I enter in are strictly western–western pleasure, trail, and… Continue

Hello and greetings to everyone from Riversong Ranch in Alberta. I’m sitting here in my office reading over a recent chat I found on Barnmice about the merits – pros or cons – of Natural Horsemanship. And I must say that I am truly encouraged by most of the comments I read that seemingly indicate that now that the natural horsemanship “revolution” is over that perhaps now the evolution of natural horsemanship into “supernatural horsemanship” will begin.



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