11/16/2025
Is It Behaviour or Soundness⁉️
A Practical Guide to Reading the Whole Horse📖
You know that moment when your horse spooks at a leaf, pins their ears at a saddle pad, snakes their head at you, or decides the mounting block is cursed and must be avoided at all costs?
Most people call it behaviour.
But sometimes it is actually your horse saying “I am struggling” in the only language they have.😕
Trouble is, horses do not come with subtitles.
And the horse world is full of confident people offering confident answers based on hope, habit, or the last guru video they watched while avoiding folding the laundry.
Meanwhile, the real clues are sitting quietly in front of you.
➡Etched in their muscles.
➡Hidden in how they move.
➡Shifted in their posture.
➡Expressed in their emotionality.
➡Revealed in changes of willingness.
➡Red flags masquerading as sass.
I used to miss these signs.
I was a training purist. Everything was behaviour until proven otherwise.
Then I learned the hard way that many behaviour problems are early warnings. And once you know how to read them, you cannot unsee them.
And here is an important truth.
Sometimes the answer is not more training.
Sometimes the most responsible thing an owner, coach, or trainer can do is recognise when a horse does not need a trainer at all. They need an equine vet or another expert professional. Early referral is not failure. It is how you protect horses and avoid bigger, more expensive problems later.
Which is why I created this workshop.
Because owners deserve better than guesswork.
And horses deserve better than being labelled difficult when they are trying to cope.
This is not a fluffy feelings class.
It is not a “learn your horse’s love language” afternoon.
It is a practical, evidence informed, eye sharpening session that will teach you how to actually read your horse so you can prevent problems, support them early, and stop spending money on the wrong solutions or waiting until symptoms become significant and management becomes unaffordable.
If you want clarity, confidence, and the ability to spot things long before they turn into big, expensive issues, you need to be in this room.
Seats are limited because I prefer quality learning environments.
Come along, to this non-horse event and sit down and learn without distraction, and finally learn how horses are trying to tell you what they need. This is real, tangible information and no spirit world communication required.
Is It Behaviour or Soundness?
A Practical Guide to Reading the Whole Horse
There are 4 workshops I am holding around Australia. The first is next Saturday 22 November 2025 near Canberra - see comments for link.
