Magen Warlick Horsemanship

09/28/2024

SOLD

Broodmare - Recip Available

I bred and raised this mare. She had 45 days early spring this year. When I brought her back into work she was off so I had her xrayed and she has a bone chip on her right hind sesamoid.
Vet said we could do surgery but I need to cut my losses.

She is gentle to handle, up to date on all vaccines and worming. I can haul her to Valley Equine and have a repro exam done if buyer is interested.

She is genetic tested 5 panel clean and color tested!

Get her bought soon so she can go under lights or wear an Equilume and be ready to breed early ‘25!

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Stephenville, TX

08/19/2024

Check out photos from the very first NCCA show in the USA!

07/10/2024

𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗖𝗖𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝘄𝗯𝗼𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝟭𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗧𝗫.

Brought to you by new Affiliate Magen Warlick Horsemanship in association with Tri-County Stock Horse . Part of their TCSH Surfin & Slidin Ranch Versatility Show.

Please see link to entry form below.

https://tricountystockhorse.com/forms

06/09/2024

Things your riding instructor wants you to know:
1. This sport is hard. You don't get to bypass the hard…..every good rider has gone through it. You make progress, then you don't, and then you make progress again. Your riding instructor can coach you through it, but they cannot make it easy.

2. You're going to ride horses you don't want to ride. If you're teachable, you will learn from every horse you ride. Each horse in the barn can teach you if you let them. IF YOU LET THEM. Which leads me to…

3. You MUST be teachable to succeed in this sport. You must be teachable to succeed at anything, but that is another conversation. Being teachable often means going back to basics time and time and time again. If you find basics boring, then your not looking at them as an opportunity to learn. Which brings me to…..

4. This sport is a COMMITMENT. Read that, then read it again. Every sport is a commitment, but in this sport your teammate weighs 1200 lbs and speaks a different language. Good riders don't get good by riding every once in awhile….they improve because they make riding a priority and give themsevles opportunity to practice.

5. EVERY RIDE IS AN OPPORTUNITY. Even the walk ones. Even the hard ones. Every. Single. Ride. Remember when you just wished someone would lead you around on a horse? Find the happiness in just being able to RIDE. If you make every ride about what your AREN'T doing, you take the fun out of the experience for yourself, your horse, and your instructor. Just enjoy the process. Which brings me to...

6. Riding should be fun. It is work. and work isn't always fun.....but if you (or your rider) are consistently choosing other activities or find yourself not looking forward to lessons, it's time to take a break. The horses already know you don't want to be here, and you set yourself up for failure if you are already dreading the lesson before you get here.

7. You'll learn more about horses from the ground than you ever will while riding. That's why ground lessons are important, too. If you're skipping ground lessons (or the part of your lesson that takes place on the ground), you're missing out on the most important parts of the lesson. You spend far more time on the ground with horses than you do in the saddle.

8. Ask questions and communicate. If you're wondering why your coach is having you ride a particular horse or do an exercise, ask them. Then listen to their answer and refer to #3 above.

9. We are human beings. We make decisions (some of them life and death ones) every day. We balance learning for students with workloads for horses and carry the bulk of this business on our shoulders. A little courtesy goes a long way.

Of all the sports your child will try through their school years, riding is one of 3 that they may continue regularly as adults (golf and skiing are the others). People who coach riding spend the better part of their free time and much of their disposable income trying to improve their own riding and caring for the horses who help teach your child. They love this sport and teaching others…..but they all have their limits. Not all good riders are good coaches, but all good coaches will tell you that the process to get good is not an easy one.

*thank you to whoever wrote this! Not my words, but certainly a shared sentiment!

05/04/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/8cKiPRivrGCL2cQF/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Do’s and Don’ts.

I don’t establish dominance
I do establish rapport

I don’t fast track horses
I do develop them persistently yet patiently

I don’t offer therapy
I do offer coaching

I don’t create high control environments
I do encourage you to think for yourself

I don’t tell you what to do
I do help you build skill and find answers you own

I don’t want you to copy me
I do want you to interpret the techniques through the filter of your character

I don’t want horses to be totally obedient
I do try to earn the privilege of very collaborative horses

I don’t fixate a horse into specific positions and punish them for the rest
I do help them get unstuck and healthy in mind and body

I don’t prioritize physical fitness as step 1
I do work very hard to get to physical training with the horses consent as soon as they are ready

I don’t believe in alpha theory
I do believe horses have complex and fluid social lives

I don’t believe 1950’s behaviorism is the panacea, silver bullet we’ve been waiting for.
I do believe we must understand it, use it as a framework, and integrate it into more sophisticated learning phenomena

I don’t care about human costuming around horses
I do care about tool and tack function, use, fit and form

I don’t care to be your guru
I do care about you

I don’t wish to see horse sport cancelled
I do wish I could watch horse sport without wincing

I don’t want to be a public person
I do understand that this is my role in the world for now, and I am lucky to have it

I don’t trust dishonest or manipulative training or people
I will step up to bat for my friends who are kind, honest, forgiving and smart

I don’t believe most horses who are currently ridden are properly prepared or appropriate for riding
I do believe horse riding can be a beautiful art form that horses enjoy and seek out in us

I don’t believe we are entitled to anything from a horse
I do believe that having, training and knowing horses is a privilege we can earn

I don’t believe all of us are ready to hear the truth our horses bodies hold, myself included
I do believe that the more we believe horses, the better training becomes

I don’t believe we have enough training options on the market that understand the horse-human co-strengths and similarities
I do believe horses are smarter than us in many respects, but we must be their advocates and gatekeepers

What are some of your do’s and don’t’s?

07/01/2023

What would you do if the entire premise of your work and practice was wrong? Would you have the courage to start over, even in public?

01/23/2023

Tony the Tiger loves going for rides. Such a cool cat and equally cool 3 yr old filly

01/11/2023

One day it just hits you.

You're tired of your habits, you're tired of performing the same routine, you're tired of feeling like your soul is not where it's meant to be.

You start to crave change the way flowers crave the sun.

You start to recognize the negative patterns you uncounciously embedded into your life and you're determined to change them.

You start to feel the energy of a newer you taking over and it feels like a weight is being lifted.

You start to feel the tight ropes of anxiety loosening around your mind, body and spirit as you recognize the ending of an old chapter and the beginning of a new one.

Embrace the person you're becoming.

You're a strong warrior who loves fiercely; letting go isn't meant to be easy for you, it's meant to be transformative.

Trust the Universe’s plan; all that space you've been creating is about to be filled wiht an abundance of magical blessings.

~ Moon Omens

12/31/2022

Shu-Ha-Ri & the Golden Mare - An Important Story

Shu-Ha-Ri is a Japanese concept related the stages you go through in order to learn to master in a technique, discipline or practice.

Shu-Ha-Ri identifies 3 stages:

1. (SHU) - Where you dedicate your practice to learning the basics from a single chosen master.

2. (HA) - When you start experimenting and learning from other masters and integrate what you have learnt into your basic foundation of skills and understanding.

3. (RI) - The creative stage where you learn to innovate yourself and adapt the learning to different situations.

Most people struggle getting good with horses because they miss out the first stage or the "master" they choose to follow is a flawed in some way. They end up dabbling here and there and never really allowing a skill set to fully develop. That then impacts the horse as the horse never fully gets to develop under a consistent approach.

Basically, what people do is skip the "Shu" and dive straight into "Ha" with a poor foundation on both themselves and their horse.

My life changed when I immersed myself in "Shu" and found a teacher and learnt to imitate their work and I got incredibly good at it.

Then I met this mare....

There is a saying:

"When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready...the teacher will disappear" (Tao Te Ching).

If you know me, you know I like to talk about the horse gods. Horse gods keep you humble, teach you lessons and send you gifts that you learn to respect and cherish.

So, when I was ready this magnificent golden mare come into my life. She took me on the journey into the second stage of "Ha". The skill set I had was not enough for her. She showed me I had more to learn. Therefore, I had to go and learn from other masters in order to understand her and grow the foundation of my knowledge and skill.

Since her, there have been many others. The horse gods have been generous to me with their gifts.

The practice of "Ha" is really never ending; however, from my learning and experiences I created my own process and have entered into the stage of "Ri".
A process that is continually refined by innovation, experimentation and new learnings.

If you compare my original master's approach and mine, it looks quite different even though I deeply respect it....and that is what happens as a result of Shu-Ha-Ri.

So, this mare is special. She was my gateway to "Ha" and the development of my skills in working with horses and beyond being an imitator of my original master. She is a key and significant horse to me. She facilitated that step in the mastery of my skills so that I now take the place of the teacher allowing the Shu-Ha-Ri journey to begin in the lives of others ❤