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Train Your Own Horse with Stacy Westfall

Sep 25, 2019

It’s important to be able to stop safely when riding. Having your horse understand different cues for stop can make riding more safe and make the rider more confident. In this episode, I explain the three cues I use for stopping my horse and the magic that it creates when the horse understands all three.

The first...


Sep 18, 2019

One of the number one issues that I get questions about is improving a lope or canter and doing it safely. I use the four square model of the horse’s mind, the horse's body, rider’s mind, and rider’s body to illustrate some safety precautions for improving your lope and canter. To explain the issues people have...


Sep 11, 2019

Have you ever been trail riding and realized that your right leg was passing very close to a tree? Have you pulled the reins to the left, and the horses neck went to the left but your leg still hit the tree? This is because horses don’t always follow their necks. They follow their shoulders. 

Most of us have learned...


Sep 4, 2019

Hot horses are those high energy horses who want to run fast and don’t always do what you want. In this episode, I go back to my teeter totter example to explain the spectrum of hot horses. Picture a +10 on one side and a -10 on the other. A hot horse will run the spectrum on the plus side. I also talk about the...