The hardest thing in training any animal, to change, or encourage a behaviour is the human bias of what we feel about the behaviour. But...

Horses show strong indicators of being predominant in forelimb directional influence - therefore, the forelegs tend to define the...

“It’s been doing xyz for xyz length of time, The horse should know better, they should be doing better by now. ” Well. They do. At that...

The more a particular stimulus leads to a predictable outcome, the more likely cognitive relaxation (reduced mental & physical load) will...

Agency is to have a physiological & cognitive sense of predictability & control over ones experience. This can be developed extrinsically...

The horse as a quadruped has a slightly different way of managing movement patterns to humans. This also pairs, with the horses very...

Licking, chewing, mouthing, yawning..... what does it mean? Is it what we must aim for? is that what we reward? is that when we remove...

We must be clear here. Horses don’t do anything to just simply be difficult. They do it because the stimulus they are experiencing, or...

As a Horse rider, horse driver or horse handler our role is well defined. We must know what we want & what the horse can achieve. Then we...

I’m sick of silence on this. I am so so so sick of seeing horses broken both physically, and mentally by breakers/starters/trainers, then...

Does your horse have a 'tell'? A 'tell' is often referred to in human behaviour, as an unconscious signal that a person many give when...

Research based evidence leads us to understand that riders, coaches, judges and most humans involved in training or using horses for...