How to Avoid a Horse Mismatch

Round Table with Buck Brannaman, Alicia Landman, Missy Fladland, Mindy Bower and Kristin Jacob From Issue 116 Shopping for a new horse can be a stressful and emotional experience. We visited with horse professionals who have had much experience seeing good… and not so good horse and human matches. What follows are their suggestions that […]

The Importance of Mentorship – Round Table with Buck Brannaman, Lester Buckley and Tom Curtin

From Issue 115 Is having a horsemanship mentor critical to a student’s success? Here, several of horsemanship’s renowned teachers talk about their mentors and their views on mentorship to shed some light on the subject. Lester Buckley is a horseman and clinician with a broad range of experience, from training some of the world’s top […]

What stands in the way of your goals? Round Table with Alicia Landman, Jim Hicks and Mindy Bower

From Issue 114 What are some of the biggest obstacles that students of horsemanship face when working to achieve their horsemanship goals? Here we pose that question to three established teachers of horsemanship to discover what they see as being their students’ greatest challenges. Alicia Landman is based in Nashville, Tennessee, She teaches lessons, from brushing […]

Goal Setting That Makes a Difference by Scott DePaolo

From Issue 113 Last issue we learned about the power of why and how knowing your why can help you accomplish big things in life. This month we will learn about the second most important tool for getting things done: goal setting. They say a person without a goal is like a ship without a […]

The Art of Being Early by Tom Moates

From Issue 113 About the photo: Anna Bonnage putting one of the first rides on Sky during the colt starting clinic–this photo was taken as Harry Whitney shared the opening quote that prompted this essay. “Early and fast are different things.   If you are early, then you don’t have to be fast.” – Harry Whitney Horsemanship clinician […]

Work in Hand on the Long Lines

From Issue No.81 I was extremely fortunate to grow up with both saddle horses and big ‘ol draft horse teams. Sitting up behind the collar and hanging on to the hames as my brothers walked the draft horses back from helping to feed off the morning hay to the cows was always a great pleasure. […]

The Importance of a Safety Check

From issue No.111 It was an ordinary late summer day—dry and warm—the perfect moment to be on horseback. We had been riding daily since mid-June and had led almost one-thousand kids the ages of eight, nine, and ten out on trail rides; most of them were first-time riders and all incident free. The wrangler crew […]

Thoughts on Introducing Children and Horses – Getting it Right the First Time

This article originally ran in issue No. 106 Some people who know me know that I have three adult children who have become very successful in the horse business. Occasionally someone will ask me how that all got started. As I remember when they were pretty small we held them up to a horse’s face […]

A Back Up Plan with Joe Wolter

This article is from issue No.108 During a recent clinic a rider asked Joe how she could get her horse to back up better. Joe answered the question by having the rider first check out how her horse was moving forward. “It’s not about what you’re asking; it’s about what you mean to the horse.” […]

Six Tools for Vaporizing Anxiety

This article is from issue No.108 My grandfather gave me a toolbox years ago that says on the front “Scott DePaolo champ.” Inside are a few tools. The important thing about tools is learning how to use each one for its intended purpose. With a tape measure, for example, an inch is still part of […]

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