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Bit-O-Wy Horses - Curlies, Morgans, Mustangs Rather than sell a horse, we throw in a horse when we sell information. If you know all the answers ... move on down the road. If you want to learn ..

If you want a cheap horse ... move on down the road. stick around and shop. If you understand the price is of small import ...give us a shout! We believe a horse is not a car, not a wrench, not a one size fits all entity but rather a horse is being with its own unique personality and inherent abilities. Matching these things with a human who is also a unique being with its own personality and inhe

rent abilities is what we specialize in. Many people who find us are looking for a "broke, bomb proof horse" not understanding that there is truly no such thing when dealing with a live being. The human's interaction will alter any past that horse has had be it for better or for worse. And because a horse is not an inanimate object that grizzly bear popping out of the woods might just be the "bomb" that proves to be too much. By selling a "broke, bomb proof horse" the seller is actually selling a false sense of security that often leads the human to be hurt or badly frightened and then the horse is blamed and "sold down the river". We aim to have enough conversation/interaction with potential new owners to assess their personalities, wants and desires. In this way we are then better able to assist them in selecting the horse with the best matching horsenality (to borrow a Parelli phrase). Putting a timid person with a pushy confident horse is a recipe for disaster just as putting a timid horse with a pushy confident human is the same. Often folks hear - green on green makes black and blue. We do not subscribe to this school of thought. Rather we believe that knowledge gives confidence and when green and green grow together the result is an unbeatable, unbreakable combination.

I like this message and yet feel it skims the point of the human growing along with the horse. Yes a green horse needs t...
15/07/2025

I like this message and yet feel it skims the point of the human growing along with the horse. Yes a green horse needs the support of the human but the beginning of this tale is that the horse backslid which indicates it was an "experienced" horse hampered by an 'ungrown' human.

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Thought for the day:
I still get asked regularly if I can take a young or green horse to further it’s training.
Often as not the request includes a story about how everything was going ok but then one day outside pressures caused it to act up.
The request is generally to enhance it’s knowledge or change their mindset so that they can handle all types of scenarios and be calmer and better behaved.
Often these requests are never attached to an aside like “can you teach me how I should handle and ride a green or inexperienced horse?”.
The onus is all on the horse to be able to carry (no pun intended) the rider through any situation that may arise and keep them safe.
That is too much responsibility for a young or green horse.
Your horse needs some support and help while it gains experience.
Regardless of your knowledge of horses or riding or a particular discipline you may find a green horse a challenge if you are inexperienced with them.
Many older horses can be much more forgiving of mistakes and have more experience of the world.
It takes more than a stint at a trainers to make an experienced horse.
Often there is a way through but it takes the help of people with the experience. Hands on help.
It also takes a little fortitude and the ability to not make your horse feel trapped with your hands or legs no matter what occurs.
Most of what is called acting up would not have occurred at all if the rider had acted the way the horse needed them to.
The first thing that it takes is the recognition that to ride young or green horses you may need to have yourself trained.

19/06/2025

✨You can fake calm with people.
✨You can smile through nerves. Say “I’m fine” when you’re not.
✨But your horse?
They know better.

✨Before your hands ever lift the reins,
before your legs give a cue,
they’ve already felt you.

The tension in your breath.
The doubt behind your focus.
The pressure you’re putting on yourself.
They feel it all — not as judgment, but as information.

✨That’s why the real work isn’t just in your hands or your seat.
✨It’s in your energy.
✨Your presence.
✨Your ability to breathe through the nerves and ride with clarity — not chaos.

🐎So if your horse is acting out,
pause before you correct.
💕Check in with your own state first.
Because what you bring to the saddle is what they ride with.

And the more honest you are with yourself,
the more your horse will trust you.

🐴💭

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22/10/2024

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A thought-provoking read.
By Jane Smiley

Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.

Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.

Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.

Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.

A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.

We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.

That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature. That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.

No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.

Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.

A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!

Take care of your horses and treasure them.

15/08/2024

As i finally watch the vid it is my opinion that while he talks a good tale in practice he is not as clear/good.
I would be interested in what others see in the human from the horses perspective

15/08/2024

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