Miniature Horsemanship - Kendra Gale

07/02/2025

Spot the Unicorn in the Calgary Stampede Parade on Friday and enter to win a special prize pack and experience with the Miniature Horses during the 45th Anniversary Calgary Stampede Miniature Horse Show!

07/02/2025

Photos from yesterday's Canada Day parade! Watch for us in the Calgary Stampede Parade on Friday!

07/01/2025

Last chance to get early bird tickets to the BehavioUr Eh! conference!

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To celebrate Canada Day, we're keeping our Early Bird pricing in effect until MIDNIGHT Canada Day!

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06/27/2025

It's the last week to get early bird pricing for Behaviour Eh!

Get all the details and register at https://www.chasin-tails.ca/behavioureh

06/26/2025

I used to work so hard with my driving horses.

I would drive them every day, to practice for the shows, but really that meant driving random ovals, pretending I was in the show ring, and trying to pull their nose in while chasing them to go forward.

Because I had some very nice horses, I thought I knew what I was doing. 😉
Then I had a challenging horse.

I knew he had the potential to be great, but he was crooked and tense, with his neck upside down and his nose stuck not just out, but up in the air. I tried everything I knew and learned how little that actually was.

I had to get smarter.

I started learning about movement, and balance, and helping my horse build strength. I stopped worrying about where his nose was (eventually - that was a tough one to give up!) and started worrying about what his hind end was doing. I systematically built him up, from back to front, instead of trying to pull him together from front to back.

I turned him from a tense, upside down, sewing machine trot who I couldn't even steer in a straight line, to a beautiful, forward mover who won championships in the show ring and earned the best dressage scores and raced through the marathon obstacles with precision.

It took me a long time, but it doesn't have to take that long. I've taken everything I learned, from my challenging horse and all the many instructors and resources and research that helped me along the way, and put it into the Improving Your Miniature Driving Horse online course, so that you don't have to take the long way, like I did.

My 25% SWING coupon code officially expired yesterday, but I always give it an extra day to allow for different time zones, so if you hurry you might still be able to get the discount!

06/26/2025

Last chance for 25% on any of my online courses! Use coupon code SWING

https://classroom.miniaturehorsemanship.com/online-courses/

06/24/2025

Fun memories - Image's first show back after 6 years off to heal an SI injury that we'd thought was career ending. What a gift it was to both of us to be back in the show ring!

06/24/2025

25% off for one more day! On all Online Courses Available through the Classroom at MiniatureHorsemanship.com

🐎 Introduction To Positive Reinforcement
Understand the science behind using food rewards in training, and get started hands on teaching your horse treat manners, to touch a target, as well as basic skills of walking over a tarp, the first steps of sidepass and back, and liberty leading!

🐎 The Groundwork Masterclass
Whether you want to have a competitive obstacle, showmanship or agility horse, or simply want a horse who is a good citizen and easy to work with for daily handing or anything else you want to do with them, The Groundwork Masterclass is the course for you. Comprehensive and including unedited training videos of SIX horses going through the exercises in the course, you'll learn how best to train the horse have.

🐎 Training Your Miniature Horse to Drive
The step by step process I've used to start horses in harness for years, including the whys, and how to make sure your horse is truly ready to move on to the next step. With hands-on videos to help you see exactly what to expect.

🐎 Improving Your Miniature Driving Horse
Help your driving horse be the best they can be! Learn to refine your communication with your driving horse, and exercises to help them build the strength and balance to improve their performance, and maintain their soundness for a long, happy driving career.

Click here to learn more: https://classroom.miniaturehorsemanship.com/online-courses/

Use coupon code SWING to get 25% off!

06/22/2025

Never a dull moment, when your horses know tricks! 😂

Here's Newman smiling, and Vodka rearing, while waiting for their turn with the farrier the other day. Keeping us all amused while we waited!

Fun fact: I didn't actually teach either of these tricks, both these boys learned their very favourite trick by watching other horses I HAD trained! Smarties.

Want to join in the trick training fun? You can get my Getting Started Trick Training online course for 25% off until the 25th, with coupon code SWING

https://classroom.miniaturehorsemanship.com/register/get-started-trick-training/

06/20/2025

Look at the progress we've made in just a handful of drives!

Rocky hasn't been driven consistently in ... oh years, maybe 2021? Just because of life, not his fault! And then this spring the entire herd got sick, so when I usually would've started conditioning for show season he was recovering from the virus, and then had to be brought back into work cautiously, to make sure his lungs were well recovered.

If you've taken my Improving Your Miniature Driving Horse online course, then you've met Rocky. He's a permanent left banana horse, and we have to work together to help him be strong and supple and straight.

Using the exact same exercises we demonstrated in that course, look at the improvement in his frame and strength and balance already! The bottom photo is the best moment I managed to screenshot a week ago, and the top one is the best screenshot from yesterday.

And we're having so much fun together too! It's wonderful to be back into the swing of things!

This course can help you get back into the swing of things too, and right now I'm offering a 25% off coupon on my Improving Your Miniature Driving Horse online course, only until June 25th! Use code SWING at checkout to get the discount!

https://classroom.miniaturehorsemanship.com/register/improving-miniature-driving-horse/

(PS - That coupon code will also work on any of my other online courses, if you have your eye on a different one - 25% off until the 25th using code SWING)