Training for Ease and Lightness
I train powerful horses for little ladies with big dreams. In the dressage world, most of our horses are over 16 hands, over 1,100...
The Power of First Impressions
As a result of having a number of family and friends with either brain injuries or developmental delays and disorders, I have become...
Sonny and Grande
If you have never had the pleasure of riding with Sonny Rice you have missed out. Stories of cutting horses, doctoring screwworms, bird...
Feet Alive
When preparing a young horse to be saddled many people go through a process that they call “sacking out.” I am not sure I like the term...
The Mustangs
If you enjoy western history and have never read J. Frank Dobie I hope this will tease you into reading one. I have enjoyed Dobie’s...
Side Drive
An important tool in my training arsenal is what I call side drive. Essentially, I define this as creating energy from only one side of...