Why Horses Paw

Many people have horses who paw and they wonder why their horses do this. The answer is actually quite simple – YOU GIVE THEM ATTENTION FOR IT!  Yes, it’s true.  If your horse is pawing and you tell him to stop – you are actually reinforcing this bad behavior.  It’s like if you tell a [...]

Keeping Your Horse in Shape

As Fall is quickly coming upon us, Winter will be following quickly afterwards and it’s going to leave many horse owners in a position where their horses are not going to get as much exercise as they would like them to get simply due to the weather and poor riding conditions. This means that come [...]

Stages of Training Your Horse

A horse’s training begins the day that he is born. Every moment that you spend with a foal will influence how he behaves from that day forward. Because of this, you always want to consider every moment that you spend with a horse, regardless of age, as training. However, a horse’s true education is typically [...]

Seventeenflat.com Pop-Up Barrels

I was just flipping through Western Horseman and found an awesome training tool for barrel racers.  If you board a horse and you barrel race you probably hate having to drag your barrels in and out or around the arena everytime you train.  If you don’t have an arena dedicated to your barrel racing training [...]