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Bad Manners

Help for a horse owner whose gelding has less than desirable ground manners. http://americashorsedaily.com/bad-manners/#.VGaKf010xeu  
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Ground Manners To Prepare Your Horse For The Vet

Prepare your trail horse for the veterinarian with these lessons in ground manners from noted clinician Julie Goodnight http://www.equisearch.com/article/ground-manners-to-prepare-your-horse-for-the-vet  
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Jealous Colt

Hi Julie! My colt is now 11 hands and 275# and he’ll be 5 weeks old on Monday. He’s learning what ‘no’ means and understands he’s not supposed to bite, but he still is invading
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Self Inflicted Pain

Dear Julie, My 11-year-old horse recently started biting at his sides—digging deep and mutilating his skin and hair coat. Before I bought him last year, he was gelded and was away from other horses during
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No Biting Allowed

In the Horse Master episode, “Raising Her Right,” I worked with Elaine Shabazian, a longtime horsewoman and Friesian breeder with a farm on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. Elaine was recovering from knee surgery and wanted
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Burned Out

This Issue: Burned Out Recently I was a speaker at the PATH International therapeutic riding conference—the annual convention. The crowd was full of hundreds of physical therapists, mental health specialists, therapeutic instructors, horse handlers, side
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Issues From The Saddle: Horse Bites When Saddled, Wrong Canter Leads

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: I have a 9 yr. old gelding that I have had for 3 yrs, I have shown walk trot English/Western for 2 yrs. My husband and myself are
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Issues From The Saddle: Desensitizing Your Horse To The Girth Or Cinch

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Julie, I hope you can help me with my horse. He is a 15 y/o gelding, I ride him hunt seat. He gets very irritated when I girth
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Issues From The Ground: Biting In Showmanship Class

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: When I work with my horse on showmanship, she tries to bite me. What should I do? Should I hit her? Thank you. Answer: Biting is an aggressive
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Cantering Help: Horse Bites When Saddled, Wrong Canter Leads

Question: I have a 9 yr. old gelding that I have had for 3 yrs, I have shown walk trot English/Western for 2 yrs. My husband and myself are still novice to the show world,
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