Blown Up Barrel Horses

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our students! 🍗🍞🧈🥗🥫🥧🍷🍽️🧂🍠🥔🧅🌽🥒🥬🥦🦃🦃 Gobble till you wobble!

09/20/2024

06/23/2024

Congratulations to 2 of our students placing at the Josey School! Harlow and Berit we are so proud of you both. Harlow is getting a good feel for Oz and Berit is doing great training her young mare Mia.

05/03/2024

It won’t happen overnight. But if you qui, it won’t happen at all.

03/20/2024

“Some desire to make good runs. Others desire to make good horses”
-Anonymous

03/18/2024

02/21/2024

Where’s the lie? 🤣

02/14/2024

Happy Valentines Day !

02/03/2024

Riding ba****ck… is it good?
Well that depends! We have Paisley and other students ride ba****ck on occasion to encourage balance. BUT notice Paisley is NOT HANGING ON HER HORSES MOUTH. She does not use the reins for balance. She’s engaging her core. She’s also not constantly squeezing with her legs which would send mixed signals to the horse. She uses her legs when appropriate and only makes contact with the horses mouth when necessary. So if the rider can ride this correctly ba****ck, then it’s great! But if they get nervous and squeeze with their legs constantly, or hang on the reins constantly in order to stay centered, then I suggest they do not ride ba****ck. That would do more harm than good. And it can also transfer to how they ride under saddle. If a rider ever gets in the habit of using the reins to balance themselves, they have to make contact with the mouth in order to do that. Therefore, the horse will learn to ignore bit pressure and learn to push into the bit or grab a hold of it and not respect it. It’s a really bad habit and it is a very hard one to break. 

01/13/2024

“You can never trust a horse that has been educated by fear. There will always be some thing he fears more than you. But when he trusts you, he will ask you what to do when he is afraid.”

12/23/2023

Facts