Equitation Science Training

11/07/2025

"G is doing so well, even the farrier has asked what's happened to her. He said he always used to expect her to kick him, but now she's calm and shows no sign of doing it. Thanks to you!"

The interesting thing is that we didn't do any work whatsoever on the horse's feet or shoeing behaviour.

This is due to what I call the 'decontamination effect' - when we retrain the Basic Responses in-hand many, many issues spontaneously resolve themselves.

A good example is separation anxiety, which almost always 'magically' disappears once training commences. 🎩 🪄

11/07/2025

10/07/2025

This is my route for my horse training road trip, starting from 9th July. I can come to your yard if you're fairly close by this route.

This is a rare and valuable chance to train with me, as I'm usually based in NZ. Click on the link below to see why training with me is so helpful to you and your horse:

http://www.equitationsciencetraining.net/equitation-sciencetrainingtestimonials

If you want your horse to relax, be more contented, easy to handle, a dream to ride, to take out and about with no drama, or if you want a youngster handling or backing, just PM me for details. No obligation to book.

Tomorrow at West Mersea. Then Southwold, Yarmouth, Norwich, Cromer, Fakenham, North Norfolk Coast over the next week or two.

Please share this on equestrian pages, and with your horsey mates, to help me to help more horses and students, and to afford the diesel! 😄 🚌

10/07/2025

I suspect that a big part of what makes a brave rider starts with the fact that they were already tough, fit athletes.

Wobbly, unfit riders are far more likely to bite the dust when things go sideways, and in any hard types of riding, things ALWAYS run amok.

Want to get gutsy? Start by getting strong.

Sounds too simple? Try it and find out---.

08/07/2025

05/07/2025

Feedback about how clear online coaching with me is:

"It’s so cool how you explain things … thank you.. so I can better understand why I’m doing what I’m doing. 😊"

It's great to read! I try really hard to be clear, and I spend a lot of time typing each day now I have a few online students! 🤣

04/07/2025

Summary of a typical second session:

Super-well done today - he's on his way to being a much calmer, more obedient horse.

Today:

Immediately deleted him randomly accelerating during leading.

Identified some separation anxiety when tied up by himself (there's no specific technique to delete SA, but it usually resolves spontaneously as training progresses).

Checked cue accuracy and deepened responses for stop, go, step back.

Trained head down from lead rope and then poll/rope pressure.

Deleted random grazing.

Deepened park in Trainer Postion 1 and 2 and trained it in TP3.

Had him in park, with no random grazing, and poll lowered, at the end of the lead rope, for 10 minutes while we nattered at the end of the session.

03/07/2025

Feedback from a student. Tense, bargy horse that had started to rear too.

4 sessions, in April....

"Horses all on great form, thank you very much. B has not even thought about rearing since your training, she and (her rider) are going brilliantly."

02/07/2025

No need to hold the horse, No struggle now. I'm free to carefully remove the eye-bogey. Job done!