Terrible Twos Tuesday Let your horse tell you when they are ready to move on to the next phase. Your horse will speak to you constantly, you just have to know how to listen to them. You need to listen with your eyes! Here is a short video showing two of my breakers. Bumble is totally not ready to move past this stage. Can you see the signs that he is unsure of what I am doing? He is lifting his head and looking around with wide eyes and turning his ears around to try and list

Collection When people start out wanting to collect their horses they focus on head set only. This results in a ‘false’ or ‘untrue’ collection where by the horse is overflexed at the poll causing an unnatural carriage. True collection is achieved by focusing on the horses body rather than the head placement. Once you get your horse working correctly through their body with impulsion, straightness, flexion, self carriage; only then can you get the horse to carry themselves in