Connie Colfox Young Horse Specialist. "How does your horse Really feel"

18/11/2025

18/11/2025

Really lucky to have Woodie ❤️ Eloise did a lovely job at Pontispool for a double clear in the arena eventing.

I sneaked a photo of Athena in there who gets overwhelmed easily, she was fabulous even grazing with Els sitting on her!

16/11/2025

Self care horse style

We don’t all have 1000 acre ranches for our horses to run free. We make do with what we’ve got to make our horses lives as fulfilling as possible. I’m lucky I rent a 40 acre hill where my young horses grow up and a family group

I like to think of it as their play ground, would you agree?

# Horsebehaviour

15/11/2025

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13/11/2025

After much request due to that dreaded time of year (clipping, pulling, avoiding muddy dreadlocks... we’re all in the same boat!) I brought in Ricky today to show you all how I approach a sometimes necessary, but not always enjoyable task for the horse.
We have to remember horses are individuals. There are only a few horses that I will pull their manes Some can tolerate mane pulling some can’t. How can we know for sure. Let them tell you through their behaviour. If we pull, we will ride them first so they aren’t cold and put clove oil on the root of the hairs to numb it 💕💕💕

10/11/2025

With the training we do on our yard we think about how to increase a horses confidence at every stage of their training.

Waiting for small behavioural changes shows we are listening and are aware of how our horse feels about things.

This increases the connection the horse has with you because he feels heard, making the relationship build into understanding and trusting each other more and more

08/11/2025

Athena is a horse who lacks confidence in her surroundings and can become super overwhelmed

If we pushed her through this she would probably show extreme behaviours and would become less and less confident

This is why I am prepared to take my time at every new venue building confidence before we add the rider

When the rider is on board we want her to really love what she’s doing so her life going forward gets less and less over whelming. We want out training to change the way a horse feels not just give us the behaviour

24/10/2025

Lovely to see this horse looking peaceful. When he came to me a in the spring he was far from this. The yard where he came from is now doing my online course so it’s lovely to see him so settled

11/10/2025

Going from a high arousal state to a low arousal state.

Horses can learn to go from high arousal to low arousal. This is useful when training and competing.

Be careful when using positive reinforcement that you haven’t always got your horse super motivated. Everything needs to be a balance.

Hope you enjoy the video. If you find it useful a comment or share goes a long way 💕🐎💕

11/10/2025

This for the keen beans

The more we look at the horses over all wellbeing the easier it is to make our, and our horses life easy

Calmness is massively important to me when training.

I deal with lots of traumatised horses and unstarted horses. The very first thing I want for my horse is for him to feel safe. It’s difficult to be truly calm without feeling safe

However there are positive emotions that can get in the way of learning.

Excited play is a great feeling but it leaves less room for horses to concentrate on what you are asking. It’s useful at times

If our horses can learn to go from highly charge emotions back to calm this can help them in situations where anxiety might be present too.

In this video this young horse is getting to grips with being allowed to play but also coming back down and learning he can come back to calm.