Posts under ‘Training Horses’

My neighbor, Tyler, and I ride horses for hours almost every afternoon when he gets home from school.  I take turns riding Ladd and my sister’s horse, Dolly.  We ride all over our ranch and even in surrounding pastures and woods with permission of course.
Last Saturday I was riding Dolly and Tyler was riding the [...]

Watching nature is very interesting.  The behavior of horses is one thing that I have been watching lately.
I told you about our horse, Commander.  Since he has been here on our ranch, he has been at the bottom of the totem pole with the other horses.  They kicked at him, bit at him, etc.
As far [...]

Of the nine horses we have on the ranch, two of these are colts.  You have to ride a colt differently than you ride a broke horse.  This is because the colts are not trained as well, especially to neck reining.
Neck reining is when you direct a horse by the feel of the reins on [...]

My PawPaw purchased another horse in the hopes of replacing Roxie, who has a seeded-toe.  She is recovering from it, but will be unable to participate in the Posse events this year.  Therefore, we own a new horse.
He is a tall, brown gelding.  He is only three years old.  After a few days of being [...]

Last Friday morning Steve Prewitt came to our ranch to work with our horses. Steve is a horse trainer in the Tomball area. We have bought horses from him and like the way he trains.
That morning we rode around our ranch trying to get the horses to respect us, used to going through creeks and [...]

I watched a very interesting program last night in the ABC Primetime series “Outsiders.”  It was about wild mustangs and how they are being used in different ways as therapy.  First, they showed how they round up the wild mustangs from the government’s land by helicopter.  I would love to help do this when I [...]