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The Move Most People Get Backwards With a Cow — and What It Teaches About Horse Training | Martin Black (Pt. 2)
Season 2 Episode 33
You think the cow is the hard part.
She isn't. You are.
You get ahead of her to turn her, and she beats you to the herd every time. You spur, you pul…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Why You Should Stop Patting Your Horse | Martin Black on Western Horse Training
Season 2 Episode 32
We pat our horses to tell them they did well.
Martin Black says the horse would rather we kept our hands to ourselves.
He has spent a life inside wes…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Monty Roberts, Alexandra Kurland, and the Future of Horse Training
Season 2 Episode 32
When I was eleven, my mom handed me The Man Who Listens to Horses.
Last week, the man who wrote it died.
Within days, the horse world also lost Alexa…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Your Saddle Fits a Horse That No Longer Exists — Letitia Glenn on Horse Care
Season 2 Episode 31
You measure with your hand while he stands there.
Then he takes a step, and the horse you measured is gone.
Saddle fit is horse care. I rode my whole…
3 months, 1 week ago
Horse Training and the Nervous System: What's Really Happening in Your Horse's Brain | Dr. Stephen Peters (Pt. 2)
Season 2 Episode 30
We say we want a willing horse.
Then we climb on, and we start cramming.
And when the horse gets tight, or slow, or stuck, we do the one thing that g…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Your Horse Isn't Being Bad — Dr. Stephen Peters on Horse Behavior, the Nervous System & Learned Helplessness Part 1 sponsored by Total Feeds
Season 2 Episode 29
Every rider has said it. He's being stubborn. She's testing me. He knows better.
Here's the harder, truer thing underneath: the horse isn't being any…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Joe Stockdale on Riding Confidence, Grief & the Show Jumping Career He Inherited
Season 2 Episode 28
Everybody wants the clear round. The win. The photo at the top of the podium.
Here's the part the sport keeps offstage — the doubt, the grief, the vo…
4 months ago
How to Read Horse Behavior — Elsa Sinclair on the 5 Types of Leadership
Season 2 Episode 27
There is a question almost every one of us carries to the barn and never says out loud.
Not how do I get him to do this.
But: does he actually trust …
4 months, 1 week ago
What If Your Horse Could Say No? Elsa Sinclair on Freedom Based Training Part 1
Season 2 Episode 26
Most of us learned to ride before we ever learned to ask.
We learned the halter, the rope, the pressure, the release. We learned how to make a horse …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Horse Health: The Virus Almost Every Horse Already Carries — What to Know Before the Next Outbreak with Dr. Bruno Karam
Season 2 Episode 25
Right now, somewhere in the horse world, a horse is shedding a virus it's carried since it was a foal. Its owner doesn't know. The horse looks fine.…
4 months, 3 weeks ago