When Speed is Sex

By Maddy Butcher After my recent bolting incident, this comment kept bubbling to the surface: “You need to get a horse to where you can open him up and go…A horse is pretty incomplete if you can’t just open him up and not have him […]

Reviews

  A Rider’s Reader is just the type of horse book I like to read. You can pick it up and thumb through the pages and start reading anywhere. The book has that unique blend of being both entertaining and educational. You learn while having […]

‘Bombproof’ or Shutdown?

  Editor’s Note: Amy Skinner rides English and Western, has studied at the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art in Spain, with Buck Brannaman, and several others. Visit her site here. By Amy Skinner “Bombproof” The word seems to be a favorite among horse owners. […]

Dump this practice! Part I

The practice of cross-tying and using halters in the pasture are two good ways to hurt a horse and two of my pet peeves. First, crossties: Steady, well-trained horses give to pressure. But it’s stressful for a horse to give to pressure only to run […]

Episode 13: State of Our Horse Worlds

Listen to Episode 13 We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 13 of Season 4 in which Jec and I have an On the Fence segment. We are returning […]

Episode 6: The Meeker Mustang Makeover with Kerry O’Brien

Listen to Episode 6 We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 6 of Season 4, and in it, Jec talks with Kerry O’Brien, a Colorado trainer who is competing […]

Three Great Reasons to attend Evidence-Based Horsemanship Seminar

Next month, Dr. Steve Peters and Martin Black will give students a treat with this year’s only Evidence-Based Horsemanship Seminar. The two-and-a-half day package will be in beautiful Mancos, Colorado on November 18-20. There, the cowboy-scientist team will conduct morning classroom sessions and afternoon work […]

Thresholds of Learning

Editor’s Note: Shelley Appleton is a new guest columnist for BestHorsePractices. Her articles are part of a body of work dedicated to horsemanship knowledge and self-improvement called: Learning to Connect. Appleton is a lecturer at the School of Pharmacy at Curtin University in Bentley, Australia, […]

Habits & Attitudes of Successful Horsemanship Learners

Editor’s Note: Shelley Appleton is a new guest columnist for BestHorsePractices. Her articles are part of a body of work dedicated to horsemanship knowledge and self-improvement called: Learning to Connect. Appleton is a lecturer at the School of Pharmacy at Curtin University in Bentley, Australia, […]

Emotion & Intellect in horsework

Editor’s Note: We welcome Shelley Appleton as a guest columnist for BestHorsePractices. Her articles are part of a body of work dedicated to horsemanship knowledge and self-improvement called: Learning to Connect. Appleton is a lecturer at the School of Pharmacy at Curtin University in Bentley, […]