NZN Horsemanship

NZN Horsemanship Honoring quality and versatility by offering opportunities to build your horsemanship through training, retreats and clinics.

Specializing in the fundamentals of horsemanship to build a foundation that will take you and your horse in any direction.

10/13/2025

Little how to video of the bowline knot… or at least my version of it!

Thanks Joey for being a great model, and miss Cathleen Peabody for being my impromptu videographer 😆

10/02/2025

🔗: whmag.co/accept-having-a-foot-held

The next time you see a horse standing still with a hind leg cocked, walk behind it and make note of how that leg hangs down under the hip. It’s straight down, not angled out from the body.

Idaho horseman and clinician Martin Black says that observation is key to helping a horse—especially when young or inexperienced—learn to accept holding up a foot while you work on it.

Stockmanship/ cattlework lessons are sold out for the rest of the 2025 season!It was great to have so many new faces joi...
09/26/2025

Stockmanship/ cattlework lessons are sold out for the rest of the 2025 season!

It was great to have so many new faces join me to work cattle and improve their horsemanship.

We buy our cattle in May, graze them for the season, and send them to be finished in October. It’s always bittersweet to see them go, but I look forward to next year’s crop.

Hope to see some of you back at it with me in 2026!

Sometimes training looks like this… for me it’s not always about being in the saddle.Sure foot pads are a really cool wa...
09/05/2025

Sometimes training looks like this… for me it’s not always about being in the saddle.

Sure foot pads are a really cool way to help a horse with their proprioception, especially if you find they struggle with balance. I enjoy seeing the subtle releases and changes when using these pads, and noticing how their movement changes.

Ty often struggles with physical and mental balance, he’s such a sweet guy! Lots of breathing changes, licking and chewing, head shakes… I think he likes it!

Look alive boys! It’s the last day of Ranch Days 😆The NZN boys, Charlie and Raven, are feeling pretty chill 😎
08/24/2025

Look alive boys! It’s the last day of Ranch Days 😆

The NZN boys, Charlie and Raven, are feeling pretty chill 😎

08/16/2025

What is it all for?

The horse comes, angry and hurting. I hear that- the world is dark. Evenings of fireflies, Nights of cool summer air,
The companionship of other horses, a place where the jigsaw piece fits

The skin softens. The eyes relax, and the breath comes

But they go home, as they must

The pasture absorbs their life, their hoof prints live by the creek still, watercress and mint growing from its muddy outline

I like to think their energy created lives on in the dirt, absorbed through the grass for the next horse in trouble, telling tales of air, of respite, of softening

What is it for? The horse goes on, the world is still dark. It takes not just a desire but a fortress, a backbone of steel to resist the tide and opinion of friends looking down their nose. It takes the courage of a warrior to move through a world deeply troubled, to protect the fragile beauty of the balance in life.

To change it, one must jump in head first without being pulled under by its tides. You have to look misery in the eye, to see true suffering, and to know that in the short term, it is out of your hands-

What is it for? In the cosmic sense, in another space and time, in the long term, it is done, and everything is fine.

Photo by Jasmine cope

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