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Related Letters

 

The following letters deal with training issues that are similar or related to the article you were reading "6 Easy Ways to Improve Your Training" and may offer additonal insight:
 

Communicate
Training a Stubborn Horse: "When I'm in the saddle, its a different story. Its like he can't hear me"

Training Blind Horses: "Training specific to blind horses"

How to Train a Horse: "Could you give more examples on thinking right"

Eye Problem with Horse: "How do you train blind horses?"

Cues Lesson Plans Goals
Horse Training Aids: "I want to know if she possibly did something wrong like gave him too many cues that were contradictory..."

Training Blind Horses: "Training specific to blind horses"

New Horse Owner: "I like to get the products you use to train your new horse."

Nervous Rider: "If I could ride a lot, for several days, I could get past most of my tenseness when I ride"

How to Train a Horse: "Could you give more examples on thinking right"

Horse Training Jobs: "I really want to become a trainer"

How to Start Horse: "Will you be having anything on starting a horse?"

Starting Horses: "She just stands there and won't go anywhere"

How to Teach a Horse to Lie Down: "I can get her to bow, but that's all"

Evaluating Training
Clinic Horse Training: "Do you do clinics at private barns?"

Saddle Breaking a Horse: "Do you break 2 year olds or know of someone who is good with this using the Lyons techniques?"

Bucking Horse Training: "When he started bucking he could look back and see his hind feet up above his head"

Retraining the Older Horse: "Is it too late to break her to ride?"

Becoming a Horse Trainer: "I would love the opportunity to come work for you"

Horse Training Clinic: "If we missed one of your clinics in our area..."

Problem Solving
Training Spooky Horses: "What is going on with my horse?"

Horse Kicking: "How do you keep a horse from kicking and how do you get them to come around you with out being afraid?"

How to Load a Stubborn Horse: "I have a very large 17 hand 1550 lb Holsteiner mare that DOES NOT load."

Starting Young Horses: "Is this normal for a gentle horse?"

Training a Spooky Horse: "How do I get my spooky horse to ride in the trailer by herself without going ballistic?"

Train a Horse to Trailer: "Perhaps you will have an article about trailer unloading?"

Training a Stubborn Horse: "When I'm in the saddle, its a different story. Its like he can't hear me"

How Do i Deal with a Bucking Horse: "She would do anything to get you off her back"

Horse Training Information: "I feel her issues were environment and ignorance on the part of her previous owner"

Horse Buck Stop: "The only bad thing about her is she will only let me ride her"

How to Train Mustang Horses: "Should I accept that this horse, because of breed and temperament, may not be the horse for me?"

Horse Rearing Up: "If you click and kick him hard and a lot he will buck you off"

Release - Pressure
Horse Riding Instruction: "The mare's attitude has changed from good to not good"

Speed Control
Horse Training Article: "I have read the "steer the tail" and the "hip-shoulder-shoulder" exercises. Could you please explain what the difference is?"

Barrel Horse Training: "The last few rodeos we’ve had to put her on a different horse because we couldn’t get him under control."

Tips on Training a Stubborn Horse: "My horse Lee Lou will not go for me."

How Do i Train a Bucking Horse: "Is there a way to truly break a horse from bucking?"

Endurance Horse Riding: "How do I establish reliable speed control in an endurance race, when every instinct the horse has says to run for your life?"

Cantering Horses: "I can NOT no matter what I have tried get this gelding to lope"

Horse Trail Training: "When we come to a steep bank or a hill he wants to run or buck up it"

Horse Leg Cues: "I've been having trouble with my horse being "dead sided""

Horse Speeds: "As soon as I ask for a trot, he thinks he really needs to get somewhere in a hurry."

How to Teach a Horse to Barrel Race: "Whenever my horse gets through the gate to race he prances and hops until you let him go"

Schooling Success: Training Young Horses: "When I got on she would not listen to me; she would pay more attention to the bit"

Thoroughbred Adoption: "Do you have any books or videos to help with retraining ex-racehorses?"

Bolting Horse: "He gets scared or something, bolts and there is NO STOPPING HIM"

Horse Speeds: "I have a 5 year-old mare that throws her head whenever I bump her with my legs"

Training Thoroughbreds: "I have a thoroughbred mare off the track that has some major fear issues"

Problems Horses: "My 4 year old BLM mare and I are having problems!"

Horse Snaffle Bits: "Do you think I should change the bar snaffle to a different bit?"

How Do You Teach a Horse to Stop: "What can I do to get her to stop throwing her head and when I say ho she will stop?"

Transitions
Teaching a Horse to Canter: "As soon as I lope off with him his head is low but his nose is stuck way out in Sweden and he loses all of his frame"


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