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Riding Skills: Gears Of The Seat

Question Category: Riding Skills

Question: Hi Julie, I got to watch one of your clinics at the Midwest Horse Fair last weekend. (I had a booth there in the exhibit hall and so I only got a chance to see one of them.) I did get to

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Horse Behavior: Aggression At Feeding Time

Question:

Hi Julie,

First a “thank you” for all the help you have been to me in working on becoming a “natural Horseman”. My question is one regarding aggression at the feed bucket. I have just taken into foster care two mares, age 27 and 20.

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Issues From The Ground: Aggressive In The Round Pen

Question Category: Issues from the Ground

Question: Dear Julie,

My friend’s coming-4 yr old paint gelding has started a very unsavory habit. When asked to move out in a round pen at liberty he will do it for a moment, then pins his ears and violently attacks

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Issues from the Ground: Lead line leadership

Question Category: Issues from the Ground

Question: I know I need to teach my horse to respect me while I’m leading him at halter. He’s pushy and pulls me. How do I get started? How can I teach my horse the skills he needs to behave while I’m

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Leadership And Authority

Horses crave it and thrive on it; they worship the ground the herd leader walks on. Horses can recognize leadership traits in both horses and people and they cannot be fooled– either you act like a leader at all times, or you aren’t one.
As

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Horses in the Cold: We Blanket for Our Needs, Not Theirs

It was 6 below zero this morning. Relatively warm by some standards, when you compare it to 25 below, which our neighbors had. That’s why our valley is known as “the Banana Belt of Colorado.”

While we recorded a mere -6° this morning, the valleys to the

Episode 222 – Starting Over

Starting Over: Julie Goodnight uses round-pen training to teach an overbearing, bucking Warmblood to respect his leader

Episode 221 – Letting Go

Letting Go: Julie Goodnight teaches a nervous rider the importance of relaxing her rein hold, riding with draped reins