Horsemanship From Ginny

This episode is my opinion on ex racehorses. While I really do like the ex racers, and they're always very interesting horses to work with, and I understand that there are plenty of ex racers that go onto live fantastic lives outside of racing, many of them just don't unfortunately. Many of them end up in homes that are ill equiped to handling them, not educated enough to understand how deep roote...

In this episode I'm talking about the word "should" Now it might seem a bit much to talk for nearly 17 minutes about 1 word. But language and how we use it is really important. So today I'm talking about why the word "should" is osmething you should avoid. It helps no one, not you. not your horse, and certainly not clients.

In this episode I'm talking about the time I worked with a Paralympic rider. The thing I learnt while working with her, the diffiuclties I had working with her, dissapointments I felt, thing I really enjoyed while working with her and the experience I got working with the horses she gave me the opportunity to work with and learn from. Regardless of anything I'll always be grateful to Bert and the...

In this episode I'm talking about the difference between hot horses and stressed horses. So do hot horses exists? Or are people just passing off high levels of stress and excusing it with "it's just a hot horse"? I talk about how these horses are created, from breeding to ridden work. I talk about the horses we lose to stress and poor practices that are normal in the horse world when they shouldn'...

Horses that retire are often in their late teens early 20's and sometimes late 20's. Why should be lose all that learned knowledge to a retirement field or retirement livery? More horses that retire should end up raising young horses. Rather than purchasing a weanling to pair with the filly/colt you're weaning, you should be putting that youngster in with an older horse. We don't leave toddlers to...

I know this might be a strange title from someone who works using natural horsemanship methods. I've come to this conclusion from working with many different horses and creating these problems in my own horse in the past. In this podcast I talk about the issues that natural horsemanship can cause, and how to prevent them. Natural horsemanship is largely a training methods designed to train effecti...

In this episode I am talking about Ginny and why I named my business after her. I talked about her a lot in the "My Journey" Episode but I didn't go into much detail when I talked about some of the things she put up with from me, the guilt I feel surrounding her, where she is now, what my logo means, and how I came to the decision to name the business Horsemanship from Ginny, often creating confus...

In this Episode I'm talking about Fernley. A beautiful bay Gelding who really struggled with a lot in his life. From loading, to general handling, which would bleed into his ridden work. He has some health issues in his life which made life harder for him, and quite sadly lead to his death. Thank you to Beth who gave me permission to tell Fernley's story, while I could talk for hours and hours abo...

While watching videos of many of the trainers that are out there, you might've heard the phrase "Make the wrong thing hard and the right thing easy". But what does that actually mean? Well that's what I talk about in this episode, giving several examples, reasons why it works, ways it can be done wrong, and why it doesn't mean simply beating on a horse, kicking or pulling them about. Why it's not...

In this episode I talk about associative learning. I talk about what associative learning is, how it works and why it's important to understand when working with horses. I talk about the power of associative learning, the speed of it, and how it creates strong emotional memories. The pros and cons to associative learning and a few examples of how you can create poor associations without even meani...

In this episode, I talk about the Four Quadrants of Training. While to actually train a horse you know need to know these terms perfectly, and training animals isn't as simple as knowing them and following them to a tee, understanding the difference between them is really important. Their uses, what they do, and personally, I don't think it's something talked about enough in horse training. It get...

In this episode I'm going to be talking about using treats during training with horses. A strangely contrivesial topic in the horse world, and somethig I used to be very strongly against. I'm going to be talking about Positive reinforcement, the issues that can arrise with it, which are largely why horse people are still so stead fast against using treats for training. I talk about how to prevent...

So buckle in if you're into long podcasts, because they're what I plan to do! This podcast is just an explaination of where I come from. What I've done through my life, and how I've got to where I am now. Through my time with Ginny, how I came to use natural horsemanship as my main way of working with horses. The ups and downs I've had working on different yards, life situations that impacted how...

This is just a little introduction into who I am, what I do and a general idea for what this podcast will be. These podcasts will largely be a place for me to put all my thoughts about training, issue that are curently going on in the hore world, my opinions on them, and I eventually plan to get guests onto the podcast from profressionals in the industries, to complete novices asking the silly que...