Our
Training Filosophy and Strategy We are proud to train horses of any breed, color, gender and age in different
stages of their development. It doesn't matter if you want your horse to only learn some ground work based on natural
horsemanship principles and techniques (mainly weanlings and yearlings), get him started under saddle (mainly 2 year
olds), let us teach your horse basic foundation (mainly 2-3 year olds), establish a solid foundation for any discipline,
or if you want us to specialize your horse for a certain discipline, such as reining, working cow horse or roping. - Ground work or play, establishes respectful and friendly partnership between a human and
a horse. We strongly believe that the relationship should develop first from the ground. In our training program, horses spend
at least one week learning how to move right, left, forwards, backwards, up and down. The content of each session depends
on where the horse is at and what he needs the most help with. We may use obstacles and patterns to help a horse learn
how we can communicate with each other and therefor develop a learning frame of mind in the horse and its confidence.
- Starting a horse under saddle naturally follows after the ground work sessions. The most
important aspects of starting a young horse, or re-naturalizing an older horse, are the horse's confidence and prior
and proper preparation being in place. We strongly emphasize the importance of that to our clients so they can understand
how important that is! Just like the first two weeks of a horse's life, the first few rides are the most important. Depending
on the horse, we may choose to first pony the horse with an experienced horse while carrying a saddle and/or use driving
reins to teach the horse how to understand our communication when being in a different position to him/her. In this stage
the horse learns how to carry a saddle, a rider and usually learns to accept a bit.
- Since
the first time we step into the stirrups we start building the basic foundation of a young horse. We expect our prospects
to learn how to walk, trot, canter, stop and turn on a loose rein. We teach them a lateral flexion, hind quarter yields, front
end yields, sideways yields and a back up. We are looking mainly for relaxation and respectful responses to
our cues, especially our seat. We expect each horse to learn how to match our body energy, so that we
do not have to rely on our reins for control. he or she will also learn how to follow our suggestions of circles, straight
lines and a clover leaf pattern.
- Once the horse understands and is o.k. with all
the above, he or she are ready to start establishing a solid foundation. In this stage of training, we start becoming more
particular about the horse's balance, relaxation, impulsion, flexion and collection. Fundamentals for a specific discipline
are being outlined here. This is a place where the horse's talent will make a difference in the ease of his or hers trainability.
Communication between the horse and the human is being refined here. At the end of this training segment, the horse should
know how to carry itself balanced and collected on circles and straight lines, through transitions, and while picking up correct
leads from the walk. Our cow horses start tracking, mirroring and turning their first cows.
- The
next step is to get our equine friend ready for performance. We isolate each part of the reining pattern for our
reining horses and teach them to combine those parts randomly, trying not to teach any assumptions. We recombine the
whole pattern at our first show. It's the same for our working cow horses.
- Maintaining
a performance/show horse in great physical, mental and emotional health is our main priority. Our great advantage is that
we don't specialize only in one discipline, so that we can give our horses other purposes to keep their minds sound and prevent
them from burning out.
Horse Sales and Helping
You Find the Right Horse for You!
This must
be one of David's greatest talent! He has established a net of southeastern connections over the last
35 years of being in this business, based on HONESTY!!! Because of that our clients feel confident to turn to us in helping
them find their next best safe horse for their children to ride or one that they can go win the World Championship
with. Our experience helps us to find you the perfect partner for your needs and dreams. If you happened to get a horse
that doesn't suit you, let us take him or her in for 30 days and evaluate where he is at in his or her development and
help you find the right home for him or her upon our recommendations. We are skilled and always up to date with the newest
technologies. We can make nice photos and videos of your horse and upload them on the internet for you. We can also create
an ad and post it on our website and on other equine advertising sites. Lessons more information
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