By: Andy Curry
Mistake #7 – Assuming You Can Get On Any Horse And Simply Ride Not all horses are the same. Some you can get on and easily ride with a western saddle. Some are so green that you could be easily injured if you have little or no riding experience. The ones easy to ride are typically older horses. They have been ridden the most and will be the most forgiving of a beginning rider’s mistakes. The younger horses will be the hardest to ride unless they have been thoroughly broke to ride with Western Saddles. Mistake #6 – Assuming A Horse Trainer’s Technique Is The Only Way To Train A Horse When novice horse owners begin to experience problems with their horse, they go looking for answers. The first place they look is in books. When the author of the book explains a training technique, the reader assumes that’s how it’s done by everyone. But when they can’t train their horse with that technique, they assume a dumb or untrainable horse. What novice horse owners need to know is that there are typically lots of ways to train a horse to do one thing. If you try something and it doesn’t work, try something else. mistake #5 – Not Riding A Horse EnoughLEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Probably no one would have blamed Laine Ashker if she had walked away from riding after a fall last spring nearly took her life, and did take that of her horse. Well, not only is she back up on horses, she'd like to get back to ...
Read moreLEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Probably no one would have blamed Laine Ashker if she had walked away from riding after a fall last spring nearly took her life, and did take that of her horse. Well, not only is she back up on horses, she'd like to get back to ...
Read moreThe "crack" mountain cattlemen from classic Aussie film The Man From Snowy River are back in the saddle and ready to reminisce almost 30 years later. THE idea began around a campfire, beer cans in hand. Charlie Lovick, a fifth-generation cattleman ...
Read moreLEXINGTON, Ky. -- Probably no one would have blamed Laine Ashker if she had walked away from riding after a fall last spring nearly took her life. Thoroughbred gelding Frodo Baggins was euthanized after the fall. Now Ashker is riding again and would ...
Read moreLEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Probably no one would have blamed Laine Ashker if she had walked away from riding after a fall last spring nearly took her life, and did take that of her horse. Well, not only is she back up on horses, she’d like to get back ...
Read moreWith a New Year comes a fresh start. And that's exactly what the Hinrichs family looked forward to today. Just last month, a fire on their farm in rural Ellsworth, Minnesota claimed their barn and everything inside. But today, hundreds of people came ...
Read moreOn Friday in this space, The Pilot will editorially offer a set of resolutions for 2008. First, a look back at how we did on last year's list. Moore County: "The county will have its hands full, what with urgent building needs, and deciding how to ...
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Read moreThis is the tale of a boy and his tractor. The setting is rural Wisconsin in the year 1959. Ten-year-old Ronnie Ballard makes the daily trek over field and dale to his grandpa’s farm, adjacent to his own dad’s farm near Waukesha. “My dad was ...
Read moreHappy new year to all and sundry. It feels good to be back in the saddle (no thanks to the British rail system) after a relaxing couple of weeks off. While Macro Man had every intention of scribbling down a few thoughts while he was off, his break ...
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