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One of the horses that is in full time training hit a speed bump the other day.

 When a horse is bending properly, causing spine alignment, the horse will soften and yield his face. 

 In between clinics in Arizona,  I brought home a horse for a month of BLESS training.

When a horse lowers its head to the balance point, many things happen.

 I used to be in the Ski Patrol when my kids were growing up.

After your horse is going forward freely and is showing good rythym and relaxation, suppleness exercises can be added to your training regime.

  It snowed here at the ranch this week.

September and October are the most beautiful months of the year here in the four corners area.

Rhythm is the first step in the training pyramid

A horse may have all of the raw talent in the world, but without proper training, it will not succeed.

We just finished a clinic that was held here at Walking the Dog Ranch.

 Why does a horse that can't canter , seem to canter beautifully up a hill ?

  Here at the ranch, we are in the summer groove, irrigation of the hayfields, growing the garden, and training horses.

Isebell Werth , the great German dressage rider and trainer, kept asking her student ,” more neck , more neck”.

Why was she asking for more neck? What did she mean?

Here in the southwest, come July, we start to get a flow of moisture out of old Mexico.

John Lyons,one of the great natural horsemanship trainers, uses a tool he calls “ the calm down cue “ . This tool asks the horse to lower its head on cue.

It’s summer time in the mountains. It was snowing and cold just a few weeks ago and now it’s pushing 90 degrees everyday. Welcome to the Rocky Mountains.

The curling exercise is another tool to develope engagement of the hindquarters.

 I just got back from Edmonton, where we did a BLESS clinic for the Alberta Walking Horse Club.

When a horse bends its body in a circle, the inside hind leg has to step up under its belly.