Horse Training: Breaking vs. Newer Philosophies

Monday, July 26th, 2010

We’ve all seen the western-themed movies where the cowboys are faced with the challenge of “breaking” a wild horse. Technically, the term breaking refers to the conditioning of a horse to accept a human as the dominant side of a relationship.
The word actually derives from the idea of breaking the animal’s spirit, and most evolved [...]

Horse Breaking Explained

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

By Benjamin Wise
Anyone wanting to know the basic method of horse breaking applied in the past can rent a western movie. Watching is about all the method is useful for as today there are far kinder ways in which to break in a horse.
I really do not like to use the term breaking simply as [...]

Horse Breaking

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

horse breaking has many different variations and after some research I have found a variety of ways to accomplish this. Here are a few resources I have found.
Horses and Horse Farm Breaking Warmbloods
So in other words, skip the shortcuts and teach your horse how to move first. Feel free to visit our other suggested links [...]