Excerpt from Chapter 9 of Monty’s textbook, From My Hands to Yours To obtain your own copy of Monty’s textbook, please CLICK HERE. In 1992, I designed a piece of equipment to help the horse by protecting his vulnerable areas. It is a double-carpeted blanket that fits behind the saddle and drapes over the hips [...]
Excerpt from Chapter 9 of Monty’s textbook, From My Hands to Yours To obtain your own copy of Monty’s textbook, please CLICK HERE. Traditionally, in the extrinsic method of training, a horse is put into a starting gate with a few others he is going to compete against. Next, a button is pushed which causes [...]
Excerpt from Chapter 9 of Monty’s textbook, From My Hands to Yours. To obtain your own copy of Monty’s textbook, please CLICK HERE. Even if you have no connection with racing, you can still benefit greatly from this section on the behavior of horses when we ask them to habituate to the starting gates, because [...]
The decision as to when to begin training with the young horse, including that aspect of training that would involve riding is, in fact, relatively subjective. Until science becomes a good deal more advanced in this area there are only a few benchmarks available to us which are based on objective, proven science. One aspect [...]
