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We work with the horse to bring out their natural strengths and abilities. Our program is based on creating soft willing partners for years to come! While our primary riding discipline is western we do ride and train in English as well. We can help your horsemanship dreams come true. We offer a wide variety of services allowing you and your horse to get the most out of training. At Unbridled Train
ing we start at the basics. We first focus on building a solid foundation for both the rider and horse, and work our way up from there. Your horses trust and respect is often very hard to obtain, and likewise, very easy to loose. We work with all sizes, ages, and experience levels of horses & riders. We hope to hear from you to help you on your equestrian journey!
“Make your horse your friend, not your slave, and see what amazing things you can discover!”
How many of you would be interested in an online study group? Where we could go more in depth on problems you're having sharing knowledge and more! For now just a private Facebook group where we can all post pictures and videos but in the future can defiantly do more! Let me know what you think!
Please help us welcome the newest member of our herd! Coates Golden Ticket “Lancelot”
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Coates Golden Ticket is an imported Gypsy Vanner stallion.
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Don’t listen to the haters! 😜
"Horses cannot be expected to live in wholly unnatural conditions without suffering. Their extraordinary gifts, from which we can learn and benefit so much, do not flourish in conditions of deprivation. Many become depressed (which suits people who want to operate them like will-less automata), some become hysterical, others bad-tempered and yet others drug themselves through stereotypy. Unfortunately, many people have only seen them in these conditions and think that horses are by nature like that.
Studying horses in natural conditions makes clearer what their fundamental necessities are: contact with others, communication, physical comfort maintained by free movement, rolling and stretching, and always some to nibble at, preferably green." ✍️ Lucy Rees (Horses In Company)
This!!!!
You can prepare your horse the best you can for many situations, but at the end of the day they are allowed to be afraid.
They are prey animals and have every right to be afraid of certain things. Your horse is allowed to show emotion. Granted I don’t believe they are the same emotion that people show some types of emotion absolutely but that’s a whole different topic.
Let your horse be afraid then help them thru their fear.
Live was acting up! Here’s a video in lieu of our live. I’ll try to figure it out for our video next week!
Have a great weekend! 
Hey everyone! Thanks for being patient! I had some technical difficulties with the live! Here’s a video of what I wanted to chat about!
Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Sage advice Steve Kutie.
Good information to remember this summer!
Today's slogan.
Leather bits! Unbridled bit!
Our Friday talk will be held tomorrow around 12pm MST. Hope to see you then!
Have some exciting news coming up in the next few days!!! Can’t wait to offer this to everyone! Can anyone take a guess at what it might be?
*hint* It’s a local (Montana) based product that we will offer! Our Friday talk will be about this particular product!
HYPERMOBILITY
Do you have a hypermobile horse?
Hypermobility in horses is not well documented or discussed at all, but it exists and can be a significant problem for some horses. People and horses are on a natural spectrum of mobility, from globally 'stiffer' joints through to very flexible joints throughout the body. Hypermobility in humans is defined as 'a condition that features joints that easily move beyond the normal range expected for that particular joint', the same concept can be extrapolated to horses.
There are some horses (notably warmbloods for dressage) that's have been selectively bred for excessive joint motion, as this increases flexibility and potentially performance of dressage movements. Other horses are just a natural variation within their breed, the Connemara for example is actually a breed where I see it quite a lot.
The problem with having joints with excess motion is, that without installing correct functional stability throughout the body the joints are at risk of increased wear and tear. The body more easily loses (or never gain) correct posture, both locally at the joint as well as globally in the body - this leads to asymmetrical loading on joints and increased strain on the associated soft tissues.
Weak hypermobile horses tend to brace their backs to try and stabilise themselves and will typically rush in their work feeling more on the forehand as they find it hard to coordinate themselves at a slower pace. This lack of coordinated strength in the body not only puts the spine at risk of wear but also increased loading and strain on the vulnerable distal limb as the body doesn't help absorb impact force as its designed to.
The key for hypermobile horses (as for people) is to to have a suitable strengthening programme that instills functional strength and promotes correct posture throughout the body (maybe the norm for your dressage warmblood, but perhaps not for your Connie). Be mindful they may be slower to strengthen as their wobbly joints need time to learn to be controlled by their neuromuscular system. Encourage them to work slowly in self carriage with lots of transitions and varied slow paced exercises that challenge their coordination.
Being hypermobile doesn't mean you are free of pain and tension, often parts of the body (poll/ base of neck/ mid back) will often compensate and become rigid, so work with your manual therapist to ensure each joint in the spine is functioning optimally.
Correct foot posture is essential, poor balance from the foot up puts asymmetrical loading on joints and hypermobile distal limb joints easily fall out of posture effecting not only their own health but the kinematics of the whole limb above, going on to affect the rest of the body.
Think you might have a hypermobile horse? Get a professional equine manual therapist to assess your horse and if necessary make a plan on how to keep him safe (correct posture and balanced movement), strengthen him up and make any changes such as foot posture, to ensure a comfortable and injury free horse.
This is some of the inhand work I was talking about yesterday from the Spanish Riding School. Very cool to watch! Talk about true collection.
Yes! Yes! Yes! I couldn’t have said it better myself!
Ok, this one might upset a few people but that is ok if it helps some horses.
The “Indian war bridle” seems to be gaining a lot of interest lately.
Because of its popularity I have been doing more research and experiments with it.
Unfortunately there is no way to ride in one without off-centering the horses jaw and creating pain and tension in the TMJ. Unless of course your hose is fare enough along in the training that it never needs any lateral rein pressure, ever. But even then there are still problems with this tool.
And before someone tries to give me the “it is all in the riders hands” line, no it is not. Some tools are a problem simply because of the mechanics of how they work. Any tool that attaches solely to the lower jaw is going to off centering the jaw with even the lightest lateral rein pressure. And for it to even stay on the horse it requires either steady rein pressure from the rider or it has to be physically tight so that it does not fall off.
If you are trying to improve your horsemanship, improve your communication with your horse and if you want to avoid causing your horse unnecessary pain then avoid the Indian war bridle.
This ends your public service announcement for today.
Thank you to everyone that voted! I’d like to do something on Friday (starting the 21st) afternoons thinking about 2-3 MST. depending on when my little goes down for his afternoon nap.
Planning on making it pretty informal and talking about different things and answering questions along the way.
Comment on topics you’d like to discuss! Thinking about 30ish min. as long as I have interactions otherwise I’ll talk about a topic and sign off for everyone to watch later!
Hopefully this makes sense for everyone!
A very talented horseman and friend of mine posted this.
So much truth to this! So many riders constantly over bridle their horses.
It’s important to know and understand how horses move and where their balance is.
Keep on learning!!
Very interesting worth the read!
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