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20.01.2022 George Morris shares his wisdom: People get too wrapped up in a horse’s style. Royal Kaliber would never have been bought if we had been hung up on style. He t...wisted, he hung, but he had huge scope. Don’t try to alter a horse’s style, set up fences for the horses, and let them teach themselves. God made the horse and its style, let the horse cope with its style. Worry if they are honest, or if they have scope, but don’t mess with style. http://www.horsemagazine.com//george-morris-everything-ol/ See more

20.01.2022 A good article about the years of consistent training that goes into a good horse

10.01.2022 When a horse is being asked to accept leg contact into hand contact, even when done carefully, and in a negotiated rather than coerced fashion, it is not unusua...l for some horses to wiggle around like a fish on a line to avoid being connected, back to front, in what some call "a circle of energy." A moment of OK connection, then a curl behind, then head straight into the air, then another moment of sort of OK--- There's a saying that we don't try to get acceptance of the bit from the seat and leg to "get at" the mouth. We are trying to "get at" the hind limbs, so that they can begin the long process of becoming strong enough to step under the horse's mass, in order to begin to grope toward some tiny degree of self carriage. Weight lifting hurts. Try it yourself. Unless there is enough acceptance of a mouth connection, there is no stable place toward which to "push" the lifting energy. We can't create engagement unless we have something stable enough to engage toward, which is the acceptance of contact, not fear of contact. Plus, if the horse has been trained a different way previously---this mare had raced a lot---the horse doesn't understand what's being asked. It is little wonder that they resist. So be quietly ready to stay the course, gentle forward ask from leg and, sometimes, seat, coupled with asking for the jaw, poll, head to accept light but consistent connection with the bit. Try a little, maybe get a little, go do something else, like walk in the woods. Just because they say no now doesn't mean they will still be saying no 6 months from now, but we have to patiently ask, with softening at any glimmer of give, in order to get these new ideas across. Try to never get tough when they say no, but don't just give up on the worried ones, either. Look at a year or two, maybe. Check other things as well, saddle fit, teeth, ulcers, all the usual suspects, but more than anything, come to the process assuming that the horse doesn't get it, and that even asking for a little of this can cause worry, so no temper, no force, lots of calm persistance.