All natural horse care in the west of Ireland

Fun training day today with Rhianne and her owners. This was only her third session and today she was introduced to big scary gym ball, a cracking whip noise beside her and was lightly backed! As previous sessions she was so receptive to learning new things and appears to really enjoy solving the puzzles! Good luck at the show in Thomastown next Saturday!!

Had a lovely lonnnngggg day today!! Training with Rhianne from 11 - 2.30pm, Quick cuppa, Farrier came to Baby at 3.20pm, 4.00pm a bit of ground work with Harley, followed by a little work under saddle and then a hack out with Harley and Magpie. When we got back we then went out on a nice hack with Magpie and Polly at about 5.15pm. Back home about 6.30pm!! Phhheeewwww!!! Great day and gorgeous weather!!

I was near to tears this morning - tears of happiness that is!! Those of you who have been following Baby's story will understand

Single rein riding is the step that riders and horses should learn before being ridden on two reins. It is not a replacement for riding on two reins, it is just an intermediate step that most people tend to skip.

If you already ride on two reins, then you just need to go back and see what single rein riding can give you that you might be missing.

You will learn what it feels like to ride on a release and to ride a horse that is relaxed and soft.I think that once you have ridden on a single rein, you will never ride on two reins quite the same way again. And this is a good thing.

There is a difference in how you connect to your horse that you cant get if you never take that step of going to one rein for a while.