Date: May 12th (Saturday) 2012 Location: Colbert, WA Participants: Limited to 15 participants. Click here to register Cost: $60 ($75 after May 1st) Auditing: $5 Click here for tickets Registration required: Click here to register. Take Your Horsemanship to the Next Level This clinic, given by JediHorsemanship, will give you the tools you need to train your own horse and builds on the existing relationship that you have with your horse. Understand how to better communicate with your...

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There is a fairly new sport that you must try. An equine sport that mixes treasure hunting, puzzle solving and competition all into one. They call it the "Thinking Horse Sport", and it's fair to call it that. It requires you to use your brain to solve a puzzle and find an objective (treasure). It's called Competitive Mounted Orienteering, or CMO. I recently competed in my first CMO ride last weekend with some friends, and we were ecstatic to come away with the Blue Ribbon! That's a pretty good first...

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Do you ever run into the problem of not having enough time to spend with your horse? It's something that can plague all of us. We wish we had more time to go out and spend time with the horses. Perhaps the weather has kept us inside, or late working hours brings us home too late to spend much time with the horses. It's a very common complaint I hear from a lot of folks. When this happens, does it seem like your horse becomes resentful of you? When you approach him, he'll turn and walk away or pin his ears...

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I began competing in endurance riding for the first time late last year. Both my brothers and I continue to train for endurance and plan on beginning our endurance season with Home on the Range in March. During the ride at the Elbe Hills Challenge last August, we were encouraged to attend the PNER conference, I was told it would be a great learning experience, and it proved to be an incredibly enjoyable and enlightening experience. I could use a few more of those conferences! I can't say enough great...

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I’ve recently heard it said that Natural Horsemanship is a fad, or others who follow certain Natural Horsemanship trainers despise other successful Natural Horsemanship trainers. Many seem to treat it like a religion! But is this viewpoint really wrong? The answer might surprise you... "[Clinician X] is just a showman or a TV entertainer, he’s not a ‘real’ horseman." Have you heard this line before? It’s surprisingly common in the horse world from critics of Natural Horsemanship....

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