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Issues From The Saddle: How Much Does Conformation Have To Do With Movement

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Hi, I have a 5 year old QH gelding that is tall and not very muscular. He has a long back and legs and I wonder if that

Issues From The Saddle: How Do You Stop A Horse When He’s Running Backwards

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: How do you stop a horse when he’s running backwards? I was trail riding over the weekend, and my horse took a dislike to the horse behind him.

Issues From The Saddle: Horse Won’t Stand For Mounting

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: I ran across your website while searching for an answer for a behavior problem with my daughter’s 7 year old quarter horse mare. We have owned this mare

Issues From The Saddle: Horse Won’t Move Forward; When To Use Spurs

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Dear Julie, I’ve seen your show on RFD-TV about how to lower your horse’s head. In the episode you mentioned something about spurs, how to use the spurs

Issues From The Saddle: Horse Won’t Give His Head

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: I have a 2 year old that is not giving his head I can pull it around but he will not give the bit at all. He has

Issues From The Saddle: Horse With Head Shake

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Good morning Julie, I have two additional questions for you: First, I have written about an extremely sensitive five year old mare, who is still occasionally blowing up

Issues From The Saddle: Horse Pulls To Arena Gate

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Hello, I am have a Tennessee walker and she rides around the arena fine until she passes the gate. Then it happens, she starts to walk sideways in

Issues From The Saddle: Horse Eats Grass While Trail Riding

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Dear Julie, I have a young quarter mare that is constantly reaching for food on the trail. I have gotten after her for this and have never allowed

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

Issues From The Saddle: Hops Into Trot

Question: Every time I ride my pony and ask her to pick up a trot from a walk, the first stride is a canter stride. Then she slows down into a trot. She does have

Issues From The Saddle: Help A Green Horse Become Balanced And Collected?

Question: First – I attended your clinics at Equine Affaire in Mass. I have to say, at such events, I have seen many well-respected clinicians and trainers, but no one has ever come close to

Issues From The Saddle: Headset For Shows

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Julie I have a question for you…do you have any suggestions for helping me set my horses head? She’s not too bad and I really think its a

Issues From The Saddle: Good On Trail, Bad In The Arena

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Dear Julie, I recently purchased my second horse, a twelve-year-old gelding. He has impeccable ground manners and is a pleasure to ride on trails but as soon as

Issues From The Saddle: Gate Sour Horse And A Tom Thumb Bit

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Julie, You have a similar question presented to you being great on the trail but terrible in the arena that you have already answered. That statement is also

Issues From The Saddle: Gate Sour

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Hello, I am have a Tennessee walker and she rides around the arena fine until she passes the gate. Then it happens, she starts to walk sideways in

Issues From The Saddle: Foxtrotter Won’t Canter On The Beach

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Hi Julie, I have an 8 year old Fox Trotter; he works well in the Bridleless bit, is well trained in ground work and great on the trail,

Issues From The Saddle: Fear Of Riding And Inappropriate Horses

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Hi Julie, I first saw you in 2005 at the Louisville Equine Affaire. You were awesome, and you were so right about fear management, your seminars are packed

Issues From The Saddle: Do I Need Spurs?

Issues From The Saddle: Distracted Herd-Bound Horse

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Dear Julie, I was at your clinics last year at the Equine Affair Massachusetts. I tell you, you were the greatest trainer there! My horse, Rufus (an 8

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

Issues From The Saddle: Desensitizing To Speeding Vehicles/Cars

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Dear Julie, I thoroughly enjoy your newsletters and look forward to receiving them! I’m also really looking forward to seeing you in West Springfield, MA at the Equine

Issues From The Saddle: Cutting Horse Too Much For Me?

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Hi Julie, I just purchased an 8 year old Quarter Horse mare with a background in cutting. She is a really sweet horse and goes great at the

Issues From The Saddle: Cold Backed Horse

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Hello Julie: I was on the Internet searching for info on rearing and found your web site. I have a question I hope you can help with. I

Issues From The Saddle: Clarification: Weight Limits For Riders

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: I purchased a welsh pony 12.1 hh 18 y.o with loads of experience as parade, driving, riding western, English and the list goes on. He is not spooky

Issues From The Saddle: Bracey Hard Stop In Rope Horse

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Ms. Goodnight, I have a 16 y/o quarter horse gelding who is a finished heading horse. Here recently he has been trying to stop on his front end.

Issues From The Saddle: Barrels To English

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Hello Julie, I’d like your opinion. I have a 14-year-old quarter horse mare that was trained to run barrels. Since I’ve had her (almost 2 years now) I

Issues From The Saddle: Achieving Collection From A Young Horse

Question Category: Issues from the Saddle Question: Dear Julie, Firstly, let me tell you that I appreciate very much your website and information! Thank you! My question is: I have a 3 yr old gelding

Issues From The Ground: Won’t Stand For Farrier

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: I have a couple yearlings that are not standing very well for the farrier. My stud yearling, an appaloosa, just wouldn’t stand well at all. The farrier after

Issues From The Ground: Will Not Stand Still

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Hi Julie, I was at your clinic in Colorado Springs—I don’t know if you’ll remember me, but I had the 4 year old black BLM mustang, Ranger, with

Issues From The Ground: Why Won’t My Horse Listen To Me?

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Hi Julie, Training concern: Horse won’t stand still to be groomed. I have a 16 hand QH gelding that I have had since October. I am a new

Issues From The Ground: Trick Or Treat?

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Why shouldn’t I give my horse hand-fed treats? Answer: Training Tips: Trick or Treat? By Julie Goodnight Ground manners are critical in a horse of any age, for

Issues From The Ground: Teaching The Whoa Cue

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Dear Julie: I enjoy your presentations….and I have a question that I hope you can help me with my horse, Rocky. During ground work he does not respond

Issues From The Ground: Round Pen Revealed

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Why should I use round pen work with my horse? And why is round penning so synonymous with natural horsemanship? Answer: The round pen is one of the

Issues From The Ground: Rearing When Leading

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: My friend has a 9-month-old filly that is half quarter horse and half appaloosa. She is a good little horse but quite spunky. She has been leading quietly

Issues From The Ground: Rearing Fit When Saddled

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Hello Julie, I was on the Internet searching for info on rearing and found your web site. I have a question I hope you can help with. I

Issues From The Ground: Pulls Back When Tied

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Hello Julie, Your Incident article has prompted me to write. Thank you for stressing the dangers of pullers, and the comment of kissing a horse on the muzzle

Issues From The Ground: Pins Ears And Bites While Leading

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Dear Julie, I purchased your Lead Line Leadership DVD and have a question. I have a 9 year-old Arabian gelding who I received from a friend about 6

Issues From The Ground: Overwhelming Your Horse

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: I was hoping that I could pick your brain on something… I’ve been thinking a lot about this problem, since I didn’t find that our instructor found the

Issues From The Ground: Needle Shy

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: We have seen you a number of times at the Rocky Mountain Horse Expo and love the way you work with horses. We desperately need your advice. We

Issues From The Ground: My Horse Charges Me In The Round Pen

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Dear Julie, I saw your DVD Round Pen Reasoning this summer. This was the first time I had seen anything on round penning, but I decided to try

Issues From The Ground: Leading Through Gates

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Julie, I’m waiting until May 20th when I expect to find out if a job transfer is talking place before I commit to the young horse training on

Issues From The Ground: Leading A Bridled Horse

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Do you think it is safer to have the reins over the horse’s head and behind the saddle horn (western) or should the reins be completely off the

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

Issues From The Ground: Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Groundwork?

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Hi Julie! I’m not sure if you remember me, but I was in your Attica clinic in June. I had Speedy the little white paint horse. We have

Issues From The Ground: Horse Turns And Faces When I Ask Him To Longe

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Hi Julie – First, thank you for all of the helpful advice on your Web site. I also have a library of your DVDs about Lead Line Leadership

Issues From The Ground: Horse Flies Backwards Out Of Trailer

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Greetings! I need your help! When unloading my horse (ramp style), my horse backs out way too fast! What can I do to get her to slow down??

Issues From The Ground: Head Shy In Stall

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: I have been noodling this problem through for a long time but I don’t really know how to help my horse further. My big gray QH (“Saul”) and

Issues From The Ground: Hard To Catch In Stall

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Dear Julie, I recently purchased an 8 year old Shetland mare for my 5 year old daughter to ride, and she arrived at our barn a few days

Issues From The Ground: Hard To Catch Horse

Question Category: Issues from the Ground I would love some tips on the hard to catch horse. Spring fever has sprung and he is avoiding me. He figures if I can’t catch him I won’t

Issues From The Ground: Handwalking Injured Horse

Question Category: Issues from the Ground Question: Hi I have just started to care for a 5 year old Irish Draught x TB – he has a tendon/tendon sheath injury and was about to be