Winning Insights

There comes a time when you just need more horse. Use these tips to ensure that your upgrade will get you where you want to be.

Negativity in your riding will keep you from reaching your goals.

This often-overlooked concept can make or break your pattern work. Bonus: Use it to square-up your horse’s shoulders.

Bob Avila discusses the finer points of the finished rollback.

Teach your young horse solid rollback fundamentals for a foundation to build a stellar show horse.

Use this exercise to improve your straightness for lead changes.

Read about my MVBs—most valuable bits—and why I wouldn’t walk into a tack room that didn’t have these options.

Are you an all-in risk-taker? Or a more conservative speculator? It matters when shopping for young horses.

Save yourself trouble and heartache by learning from the eight horse-buying mistakes I see buyers make all too often.

I’ve been on both the production and the prospective-buyer ends of sale videos. Learn from my experience to make a better video—and watch a sale video critically.