Carols training goals: The ultimate goal in training horses and rehab horses are to produce a quality, safe, quiet, well mannered, respectful, soft, supple, flexible, well balanced, sound horses. Evaluating and treating every horse as an individual, while paying close attention to detail, focus, energy awareness, feel, timing, rhythm, pressure & release, consistency, praise, and giving the horse what he needs is an obsession. To many viewing this video, well lets just say that they dont see much, no big deal, its just ground work. To those that are truly passionate about their horsemanship, they are able to pick out the small details, that allow Carol & Hank to have this extraordinary connection. What Carol strives to produce in her training horses is an emotionally, mentally, and physically balanced horse using the whole horse concept. Relaxed, soft, supple, flexible horses with refinement, requires a lot of extra effort on the trainers part. It requires a step by step progression, which includes a lot of ground work that transfers to under saddle, which in return makes the under saddle refinement process much easier. Some of the things that Carol does well is producing a horse with an amazing head down & back up, flexing head & neck, yielding the hind, fore, half pass, side passing, spins, and circle work. Relaxed walk, slow trot, as well as developing multi gaits in the gaited breeds without using harsh bits, tie downs, martingales, and etc.., its all done naturally without these tools. Being able to control all the body parts is of great importance in her ground skills, as well as under saddle. Some of the details that you can pick out with Carol & Hank is that Hank is being lunged for respect, not your basic lunging, loose line, rounded relaxed body, focused, respectful, changing direction, backing using several methods, consistency is being used, light energy, light soft cues, as well as consistently praising Hank. No high headiness, nervousness, or uncontrollable behavior. But the most important detail is that Hank always easily squares up, due to the rehab, conditioning, and training, he has reprogrammed his emotions, mentality, and physical abilities. Hank also proves how well mannered and respectful he had become and never offered to even try to eat the grass!!
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 02:17:26 +0000