Horse Training

Learn the mindful, watch-and-pause method Warwick Schiller uses when saddling a nervous horse—or any horse.

Challenge yourself! Have fun and test your knowledge of horses and horsemanship with Horse&Rider’s Trivia Challenge, featured in The Ride newsletter.

Do you still believe these false notions? Clinician and world champion trainer Sandy Collier debunks four common horsemanship myths.

Challenge yourself! Have fun and test your knowledge of horses and horsemanship with Horse&Rider’s Trivia Challenge, featured in The Ride newsletter.

The training methods of yesteryear often involved too much force. Today’s enlightened techniques are more humane and more effective.

A one-rein stop is a useful tool to have in an emergency. Warwick Schiller shows you how to achieve a better one-rein stop.

Is riding your horse like peddling a bike uphill? Use self-carriage to improve your horse.

Have a horse that is anxious in the roping box? Use these exercises to calm your nervous rope horse.

Challenge yourself! Have fun and test your knowledge of horse training with Horse&Rider’s Trivia Challenge, featured in The Ride newsletter.

Learn nine key ways to improve your horsemanship by avoiding the blunders that sabotage training and make your horse unhappy.

Learn the key horse-training insights gained from trainers’ ‘eureka moments.’

Master speed transitions for reining.

Learn proper curb-strap adjustment.

“LADIES’ HORSE.” “PREFERS MALE RIDERS.”“HATES MEN WITH A PASSION!” These descriptions, all taken from real Internet ads or Web sites, are but a handful of the ways we humans describe a phenomenon that might be called gender bias in horses.

Challenge yourself! Have fun and test your knowledge of horse behavior and horseback riding with Horse&Rider’s Trivia Challenge, featured in The Ride newsletter.

Counter-canter drill to help with balance and cadence.

What to look for in a performance horse prospect.

Correct a horse that likes to charge in a rundown.