Yield To Horses

10/01/2026

09/28/2026

Great reminder

❗️BRACING ISN'T ALWAYS RESISTANCE ❗️
When we feel our horse brace, we tend to think: "He's resisting me."

Have you ever thought your horse may be trying to create stability, and bracing is a familiar strategy? Or if your horse doesn't feel secure enough, for whatever reason, to let go and relax?

To clarify, this doesn't mean every brace is emotional, and it doesn't mean every brace is physical.

What it means to me is we can't put horses into neat little boxes!

Mind. Gut. Body. Environment. Training. Experience.

We cannot separate these; they're all part of the same animal. The common thread in this conversation once again.
IT'S ALL CONNECTED

🐴 The mind remembers.
🐴 The gut remembers.
🐴 The body remembers.

Next week... the piece that ties all of those together.
🐴 The Horse Remembers.

09/25/2026

A beautiful alliance - for all horse lovers and enthusiasts

09/25/2026

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Where collaboration comes before competition.

09/06/2026

⬇️ THE BODY REMEMBERS.
We often look at a horse standing in front of us and see what is happening in the present moment.
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Forgetting the body has a history: years of repetitive movement, old injuries, uneven loading, compensation, bracing, and postural habits.
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An OTTB will carry patterns developed by hundreds of miles of repetitive work. But this isn't just an OTTB conversation.
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A barrel horse, reining horse, dressage horse, eventing horse, and any other competitive sport horse will develop patterns based on repetitive work.
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Any horse can develop patterns that become so familiar they eventually look "normal."
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I've learned over the years that one of the most valuable things we can do is learn to notice before we try to change.
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How does your horse stand when you aren't asking anything of them?
Which foot do they rest?
Do they consistently carry their head or neck one way?
Do they always feel different in one direction?
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Sometimes the first step isn't fixing. It's noticing.
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What have you noticed about your horse that makes you wonder, "Why does he/she always do that?"

07/12/2026

If we change our focus from "How much do I need to feed my horse for them to 'look' good?"

And instead, start asking, "Does this diet support a healthy gut and a regulated nervous system?"

❗️Those are two very different conversations❗

The gut and nervous system recover together. They're often not separate problems, just different pieces of the same puzzle.

07/09/2026

Great advice!

Your horse's behavior may be telling you more than you think. Tension. Spooking. Difficulty standing quietly. Constant movement.

Sometimes these aren't training problems but rather signs that the body isn't comfortable.

The gut and nervous system recover together.
It's ALL CONNECTED!

07/06/2026

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05/29/2026

Great reminder to OTTB owners

There’s a stage with OTTBs that almost nobody talks about.
The in-between...Not the track anymore, and not settled into their new life yet either.

We are excited and want to know the "plan" and the answers.

“What supplements should I add?”
“What training program should I start?”
“How fast can we get going?”

I beg you...Please don't rush this stage, this is where trust is built.
Where curiosity matters more than control and where observation matters more than assumptions. Keep it simple in the first days, weeks, and months.

The horses who transition the best are often the ones given space to decompress, express themselves, and slowly show us who they are underneath survival mode.

Sometimes the most important work isn’t training at all. It’s learning how to listen in the middle of the unknown.

05/19/2026

Michelle Scarzone - a great reminder!

There’s a phase in OTTBs that most people miss. It’s not the arrival. It’s not the “problem phase.” It’s the in-between.
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Where they are quiet, but not settled, compliant, but not confident, present, but not expressive.
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This is where they’re deciding, “Is this a place where I can be myself?”
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How we handle this phase determines everything that comes next.
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If you push too soon, you build tension. Misread the quiet, you miss the signs.
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If you give them space to process? That’s where curiosity starts to come back.
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This phase is foundational, as uneventful as it might be.
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Have you noticed this stage in your own horses?