Love for horses?!

Love for horses?!

  “But I bought the horse to do competition /to do shows”. “He is supposed to be a riding horse, not one for only ground work or lungeing.”   Frankly, I hear sentences like this every now and then. This is when I normally get very quiet and, to...
Connection

Connection

It’s this one thing we all desire and we talk so much about. When are we really well connected? What does it mean? And how do we actually achieve a better connection?  Let’s start with this example. I once bought the most beautiful but reserved stallion I had...
Spring Fever

Spring Fever

“I can’t keep a stallion in Germany.” We hear this sentence from our students again and again. It appears that it is very difficult to accommodate a male, uncastrated animal in an appropriate way – at least if you require a boarding stable and...
Work in Hand as the key to the soul

Work in Hand as the key to the soul

Touching a horse deep inside and getting an insight into its personality and its character is not that easy. Because a young horse living freely in the pasture within its herd doesn’t need us humans at all: it has managed perfectly well on its own –...