Improve Your Horsemanship and Stop Bugging Your Horse!
Learn nine key ways to improve your horsemanship by avoiding the blunders that sabotage training and make your horse unhappy.
Training Tips
Make ’em Last: Avila's Secrets to Keeping Older Performance Horses Sound
Maintain longevity in your older performance horses using these insights from Bob Avila.
Exercise: Straightness for Lead Changes
Use this exercise to improve your straightness for lead changes.
Get It Right, Keep It Right
Your horse has mastered techniques, but how do you keep him ready to compete without overtraining? Use these strategies for success.
Fix Showmanship Dullness
Leslie Lange offers advice on how to fix dullness and achieve light contact in showmanship patterns.
Work Through Competitive Anxiety
A reader’s horse experiences great nerves at events. Clinician Ty Brazeal discusses how to overcome the anxiety.
The Best Training Tip I Know
The secret to effective horse training is simple: You have to know when to quit.
The Rarely Ridden Horse
Use these five strategies from our experts to keep your seldom-ridden horse tuned-up and connected with you.
The Three Rein Positions
Do you know the difference between the direct, indirect, and supporting reins? Learn about them to isolate each of your horse’s four corners.
No More Bucking!
Horses buck for various reasons. Here are solutions to help fix the problem, whatever the cause.
Outsmart Anticipation
An equine behaviorist teaches you the why, and expert trainers teach you the how behind your horse’s anticipation—so you can nix it now.
