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Trailer Loading Simulations: The Crash Mat
The first exercise in our trailer loading simulations is The Crash Mat exercise. This simulates the feeling of the unstable floor that a trailer ramp may have. The aim of this exercise for your horse is to be able to cross the mat from an ask from you, with all four feet stepping onto and over t...
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WORKING STALLIONS IN A TEAM
Watch Mia at home as she demonstrates how she goes about working a stallion in a team at liberty. Mia shares some tips on how to keep peace between the boys, and keep stallions focused on the work and not on other things! And although not everyone will be working teams with stallions in, you may ...
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HOW TO TEACH LAYDOWN
Watch three different horses have their first lesson on learning the lie down cue. Mia guides Serena and Sarah through the various techniques she uses to teach the lie down and helps them through some of the common issues that come up when learning this trick for the first time.
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AN INTRO TO POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
So you want to safely introduce food rewards into your horse training? In this series we cover how to go about introducing positive reinforcement in your training sessions. Positive reinforcement can be a power tool, so its important to learn how to safely and fairly use it in practise.
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WHERE DOES FOOD SIT IN YOUR HORSE'S PRIORITY LIST?
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HOW USING FOOD REWARDS CAN HELP HORSES WITH TRAUMA
Introducing our new horse Fanto and how we are using food rewards to help him open up in training after a traumatic past.
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HOW AND WHEN TO TREAT
It's really easy to accidentally train our horses to become crocodiles. As with everything, timing is everything!
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LOADING A MARKER WORD
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HOW TO TEACH THE CLOCKFACE
Here are the steps of teaching "The Clockface" to a young horse, or a horse that is new to the exercise.
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SUPPLING EXERCISES FOR BRIDLELESS RIDING
Using leg yield and half pass at liberty helps get some bend, relaxation and suppleness through the body before riding bridleless.
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SIDEWAYS DOWN THE FENCE
Sideways down the fence is an invaluable exercise for you and your horse. Not only can you use it to show your horse the boundary in a new space, but it's a great exercise for suppling the horse in motion through the ribs.
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SIDEPASS OVER A POLE
Once you have sideways down a fence, you can then teach sidepass over a pole.
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WARMING UP FOR COLLECTION
Learn how to warm up for bridleless collection in this full length video.
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WEAVE ON A CIRCLE
Here's a fun exercise If you're looking to build on your drive and draw on the ground or at liberty. There are so many ways to progress this pattern, and it's an exercise you can adapt to suit how your horse learns - you can use it to help your horse get connected to a pattern, or change things u...
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SADDLING FOR THE FIRST TIME PART 1
Bravo is an uncomplicated horse we've had in for starting, and in this video we show you how we introduce him to wearing the saddle for the first time.
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SADDLING FOR THE FIRST TIME PART 2
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TEACH YOUR HORSE TO SPIN
How to teach your horse to spin at liberty! Spin is a really fun exercise to start teaching your horse when your liberty is well established together as you'll need to have a really good draw and drive in order to get a super fast, connected spin.
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DEVELOPING A FRAME AT LIBERTY
Here's how engaging exercises can help your horse find a better posture and learn to frame themselves whilst at liberty. You can also begin teaching these exercises online first.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF WARMING UP
Before we start any work with our horses, it is important to ensure they are properly warmed up in walk first.
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MEET OUR NEW RESTART
Meet our new horse Lando who found his way to us after he ran into trouble being ridden. Here's how we go about helping a horse that has problems with being ridden, in particular with the saddle and rider.
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HERD INTEGRATION
Here is how we go about integrating new horses into the herd. We share our top tips for successful integration and look at some of the common horse behaviours demonstrated that are often on display when first introducing a new horse.
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"DRUNKEN COWBOY"
Here's how we go about helping anxious and reactive horses when we start backing them with a technique called "Drunken Cowboy", which is the art of being purposefully clumsy in order to build a horse's trust and confidence with us and our tools.
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INSIDE THE FEED ROOM
Here's what Mia feeds the team to ensure they all stay in top form for their work.
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HOW WE WORK THE TEAM OF 8 PT. 1
Mia and Callum show you how they train the liberty show team of eight that they put together this year, utilising the power of the herd.