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What is the goal of training?

October 12, 2018

If you hang around the classical Dressage crowd for any length of time, you will hear someone say something to this effect: “Horses already know how to do the movements, in the field; training only consists of teaching them to do them with a rider added.”  It might also be slightly modified to include “on … More What is the goal of training?

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Sculpting the Equine Body, Pt 2

September 30, 2018

In a recent post, I discussed the general notion of how you can change the horse’s body, for better or worse, based upon the nature of the work.  The inspiration for that post came from Coffee.  Recently, my mother had been commenting on how much more handsome Coffee is than when he came here.  I … More Sculpting the Equine Body, Pt 2

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Herman Melville

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