Katy Negranti Performance Horsemanship

11/04/2025

The Student says: “My horse is tense.”
The Master says: “His body remembers storms I have not yet learned to calm.”

The Student says: “He’s behind the leg.”
The Master says: “The forward lives in him, I’m just remembering where the key fits.”

The Student says: “Half halt.”
The Master says: “A whisper that asks time to wait for us.”

The Student says: “He isn’t understanding.”
The Master says: “I’ve asked a question in a language I haven’t learned to pronounce.”

The Student says: “I need more softness.”
The Master says: “I’m trying to melt the armor I didn’t know I was wearing.”

The Student says : “He’s resisting.”
The Master says: “He’s handing me a map of where he hurts.”

The Student says: “We’re working through some issues.”
The Master says: “We’re untangling the knots we tied on days I wasn't listening.”

The Student says: “I need to be more patient.”
The Master says: “Time only opens its hands when I unclench mine.”

10/26/2025

Some things that make me shake my head…

Let’s say you have some really talented and well bred horses…

If they’re broncy or hot or need drugs to be shown or lose the plot after being shown some… people easily blame the genetics. Or pain. Or whatever.

But… when you take the time the horse needs, making sure they aren’t feeling emotional to whatever degree that would trigger them to be “bad”, then the result is because you just put time into the horse. “Well yeah you were successful with one of those horses because you did your job preparing the horse”. But the horses that arent well schooled, they’re just bad minded because of their genetics.

Baffling 😂

It’s almost as if people expect the horse to already be trained just because genetics says the family is successful. And when corners are cut, horses are ill prepared, now it’s on the horses shoulders for not being great.

🤔

So why aren’t more people looking in the mirror when the first scenario happens?

Why is it the horse who has a problem?

Why are genetics blamed instead of considered?

Tendencies with genetics are very real. Sensitivity, intelligence, athleticism, etc will all give rise to possibilities. Both good and bad. If they do well, then it’s a good horse, good trainer. If they do not do so good, bad horse because hes just not good minded because oh his genes🤦‍♀️

Just interesting to me. I hear this over and over and over again! That mindset shift would keep sooooo many horses from being thrown out. We’d be creating better horseman again too 🧐

10/26/2025

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