Functional Horsemanship
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Question on Lateral Flexion and Reset

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Cathy sent in a question on lateral flexion. "Hello, I wonder if you could write about some tips for lateral flexion issues in my 4 ...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Equine Nutrition and Care Education

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I think most people would agree that the day a person stops learning or trying to learn is a day that should not come about. In fact, one...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Getting a Green Horse backing out of a Trailer

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I received a call from very nice lady named Loretta who asked about tips on getting a young horse to back out of a trailer. "Hello, ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Check your Bits for wear and damage

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I almost always wear gloves when handling horses. Mainly because my hands have been chewed up over the years, splitting from dryness, bei...
Friday, August 8, 2025

Thoughts on Obstacle training

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Sheridan wrote me to see if I have a list of obstacles that I train my horses on. "Hello, I like your website and check it often to ...
Saturday, July 26, 2025

National Day of the Cowboy 2025

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Today, 26 July 2025, is National Day of the Cowboy. So what are we celebrating? For one, I'm not celebrating the movie Cowboys. Few ...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Question on Using Flags to get a Horse to pick you up on the fence

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Margaret sent me a question on using flags, specifically on the article Restarting Monte, Part 3, when I was getting Monte to pick me up o...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Restarting Monte, Last Day and Postscript

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On the last day that Monte's new owner was here, I showed her how I went about loading Monte in the trailer. He had only been in a tr...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Restarting Monte, Part 5

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When we started with ground work on Monte, I introduced him to following a feel on the lead rope moving to be able to control a foot with ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Restarting Monte, Part 4

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Once in the saddle, beginning on Day Two of Monte's restart, I worked on lateral flexion and untracking his hind end using as minimal...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Restarting Monte, Part 3

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Although this is part 3 of Re-starting Monte, I began untracking him on the lead rope around his hind end on the first day of ground train...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Restarting Monte, Part 2

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Continuing with Monte, I worked with him to understand the slight differences in asking for a front foot to step out and being sent follow...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Restarting Monte, Part 1

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Monte is a registered Arabian from Polish Arab stock and was used an on the track racehorse before my late my wife bought him when he was ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Correcting my own mistakes

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I was riding a few weeks ago and realized that I was pretty much solely focused on the performance of my horse. At some level I was aware ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The Time, Place and Reasons for Lunging

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I received two questions these past couple weeks relating to lunging. Kathy wrote "Do you still make lunge lines? I have been using ...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Lateral Flexion in a Colt's first few rides

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I picked up a 2 year old sorrel gelding last year at a sale. I was really happy to have the winning bid on him, kind of surprised that he...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Getting on with Living

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After losing my wife to cancer 5 months ago, a terrible disease that came back on her with a vengeance that took us all by surprise, and th...
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Saturday, November 30, 2024

Giving Thanks

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I hope everyone had a good Thanksgivng and was able to spend with those people in your life that are important to you, be it family and/or ...
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