Are you a Good Match for Your Horse? 

Thank you for a sensible and well balanced view. I am working through some issues with my horse who started to get top side of me and my fear made things worse. I did consider parting company but have had a lot of help, tuition and extra work given to my horse from experienced riders. Gradually we are getting back to being a team. People like me need to take help and advice from people like you

Hi! Im definitly green when it comes to this topic of owning horses...I am in the learning groundwork phase right now of owning my own farm eventually hoping to do ministry as well as therapy!! Thank you for these videos!

Me and my share horse get on so well on the ground, but she is so powerful and strong and I feel like she does not respect me as a rider but on the ground is like a little puppy dog with me. It's so frustrating because I feel like I'm holding her back with her exercise etc but we have such a good bond

I was wondering if you could do a video on muscle building and exercises

Very good video. I have one colt I started from the ground up as an untouched weanling and he was amazing and we had very few problems. I then acquired his brother, stupidly thinking they would be even remotely similar in personality. Our personalities definitely did not mesh, I wasn't enjoying the process, was throwing a lot of time and money into working with him, and my anxiety was through the roof. One brother became my heart horse after I retired my old gelding, and the other just wasn't the right fit for me.

CRKtraining Could you do a video on teaching a horse leg cues? My horse, he's doing better now though, thinks when I apply leg pressure with one leg, I want him to trot when I actually want him to turn. Or a video on restarting a horse?

I ride a pony every week and he's a lovely little man, he's called Frosty ;). I don't know if I'm just being too soft-hearted but I always feel really bad when I kick him or have to tap him with the whip (because he's a bit slow and never canters over jumps). The reason I feel this is because he's quite skinny (it is NOT an illness, he's a perfectly healthy pony). When others ride him (he's not mine but I ride him often at my riding school) they always do so well on him. Do you think I'm a good match or not?

Can you teach us how to post? And do some things in the western saddle

Hiiii ur amazing

I'm looking into leasing a horse. I have never leased or owned a horse before. I am a beginner rider (have been riding for 4 months) and I feel confident while riding but have only ridden 2 horses. I am just wondering 1) if you think it's a bad idea for me to lease a horse for any reason and 2) what things I should keep in mind when trying to decide if a horse is right for me. Thanks

First view!

Yeah I don't agree anyone can fit with any horse. For example. I'm 14 and have a 4 year old mustang I'm breaking on my own. Just got him last week. He is my first horse.

Hi Callie, I respect your opinion but I beg to differ, Horses are not cars, there is no safe horse, there is no bad horse, there is no special horse. There is no Mini-Van horse with all the safety bells and whistles. I own a small heard, all different, but all essentially the same. They can kill me at any time, and some even try, but the answer isn't in getting rid of them, the answer is working with them. To me people are the problem not the horses. For example, any horse, at any training level, or at any age is going to do something stupid at some point (Of course very natural to them) and it’s just a matter of time. Anyone who has a slightest anxiety about horses or getting bucked off or kicked,… shouldn't be allowed to own them. To me it’s very simple, If you can’t ride the horse and ride it well, feed it, groom it, give it shots, change the shoes, castrate it, and if necessary put it down,… you shouldn’t have the right to own it. The biggest problem is that in this day and age, horses are kept in stalls, in million dollar barns and are reduced to pets and are not subjected to their surrounding naturally. A horse that lives his whole life in a fenced off backyards is going to do a lot more stupid things than a horse that pulls a cart through the city all day long. Now these are both extremes, but you get the point. The very same people who buy German Sheppards to keep in a one bedroom apartment will buy horses to keep in 4x8 stalls 50 miles away from their home. That’s an abomination to me. The question isn’t that if the horse matches the person, the question is that if the person should even be allowed to own the horse.

I'm a foal mom, get away from my foal and my boy