CNY Horse Training

03/04/2025

10/29/2024

08/16/2024

How to pick up horses feet and help gain comfort for trims

08/09/2024

This is why your turn does not come from pulling on the rein. Note the riders hand and leg position and hip angle in each sketch. Note the development of the horses muscles in each sketch. Note the shape of the horse in each sketch. A truly supple, truly bent horse is working through their entire body. It is OUR job as the rider to guide the horse to become soft, supple, and through in all movements.

Rider one is pulling the nose around, and trying to push the haunches in, with a following outside rein offering the horse no balance, and a hardly supportive inside leg to wrap around. This has created a rigid, stiff horse that will surely be back sore, weak in the hind end, with front end bulk in all the wrong places. This horse has every opportunity, and will likely be so uncomfortable that it will try every time, to run out of his right shoulder.

Rider two is pushing the horse from his inside leg to his outside rein. The outside rein is providing a balance point for the horse, allowing him to be both comfortable and willing to carry himself. Because the riders rein is supportive and blocking the shoulder, the horse can not blow out the shoulder, and can only become truly bent along the entire length of the spine.

In order to build the athlete you want, and to allow your horse the opportunity to have a long, successful, and most importantly SOUND career, it is important to understand how we ride, even in seemingly simple tasks such as the walk or trotting circles, is effecting each muscle in your horses body. Not all muscle is good muscle!

- Ali Hamann / South Coast Sport Horses

07/07/2024

I am a huge fan of Sure Foot and excited to be adding Sure Foot sessions to our services!

05/19/2024

Devils Garden mustang Coco Mademoiselle was a Rockstar on her first hunter pace. She was calm at the trailer when her friends went for the first trip without her, no carrying on or calling out. Just enjoyed her grass and all the horses and trailers coming and going. When it was her turn, she tackled it all, hills, water, horses up front and behind, passing like no big shake, stayed totally calm and seemed to just really enjoy it. We took her over some of the smaller obstacles including the drop jump, did it with no hesitation. What a cool little horse! Very proud of her.

04/27/2024

Chris Irwin: When you post on the correct diagnol it's based on the direction your horse is actually bent, not where you are relative to the wall or fence 👀. Cannot have body bent to left and turn right through a corner with a braced backs, can cause hocks to break down. Need to turn through body, head follows, not turn the head first. 😬

03/02/2024

What would you say to a comprehensive course on understanding the hoof-horse connection?

*By Popular Demand!*

I have been asked more times then I can count to produce a course. So I have! With two options, an online theory only, or the same course with an added practical week covering the basics of functional shoeing, therapeutic farriery, modern materials and dissections.

The self paced online course with optional check ins will cover
Digit anatomy
Functional anatomy (understanding how the hoof functions)
Understanding hoof morphology (How and why the hoof changes shape)
Recognising the ideal digit and its implications
The effects of hoof balance on posture and biomechanics
Reading and shoeing to radiographs
Shoeing applications (practical application of everything)

The course includes unlimited access to over 100 hours of webinars to compliment the course lectures and access to a library of supporting research papers!

Those who complete will be invited to join a private Facebook group for continued discussion and mentorship and will be on our recommendation list for enquiries around the world!!

The practical week is to be held in South East England unless we can get a cohort of delegates if from abroad. Message for more details in that.

You can see photos from the pilot course on a previous post..

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/htKHUWXpDwCDPfJ9/?mibextid=WC7FNe

For the online only course follow this link..

https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/copy-of-advanced-evidence-based-farriery-course

For the course with practical week follow..

https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/TED-Advanced-Farriery