The greatest gift you can give a horse is to teach it manners... How to be a well trained, valued, and loved horse. That way, if ever you have to give up your horse, it will be sold on to a forever home and stay there because it is a super horse. If you cannot be bothered to train it's to be a well-mannered horse....then it will go from home to home to home to home to home to home to home and become one of those evergreen horses on a permanent tour of Britain.....

One of the three main issues of horse riders is bolting. This episode deals with preventing bolting, what to do when the horse is bolting, and how to school the horse out of bolting...

Horses will have to come to terms with the fact that sometimes life throws up a few things that they will not approve of! First recorded on fireworks night, this podcast discusses how to teach the horse to learn how to learn  - that is, to learn that we will teach them all manner of  things that they may disapprove of....

My first ever Facebook live broadcast....and I am pleased to say that the subject matter is riding your horse with a goal in mind. If you have a high goal, a big purpose, a drive for some result, then mishaps and misadventures get robbed of their power. Goals and dreams have the power to pull you through.....

How we react is more a reflection of the company we are in rather than how we feel......

A two parter today!

There are two kinds of people... Those that think that horses are fundamentally safe and usable, and those that think that horses are fundamentally out to get you. If you belong to the first group, then it doesn't matter what your skill level, or your achievements, or your abilities - with small bite sizes and a clear goal it is inevitable that you will progress. If you belong to the second group however, well........

I got lost in the back streets of Marrakech. With a reliable guide you can go into many new and and and unsettling situations with Confidence. Without a guide the small all doubts can escalate into fear. This is what happens when your horse naps back to the stables or other horses......so make sure that you are that reliable guide that can reassure your horse ...

If you have had a good horse for 20 years, and then it retires or dies, and you buy a nice four-year-old to replace it..... don't forget that it has been 20 years since you last struggled with a 4 year old......