Dena Kirkpatrick is a professional horse trainer, world-renowned clinician, and wife to calf-roping horse trainer, Cliff Kirkpatrick. She is the mother of 2 girls, Sarah &...
Winter has set in hard here in the Midwest. Brutal cold along with ice and snow makes traveling to the barn difficult for many. Once we...
By applying techniques from my past training articles, you have learned how to teach your horse to soften his face and stop and back up on...
I train horses and conduct horsemanship clinics for a living. My job requires that I ride numerous horses on any given day. By this...
A couple years ago we returned from the Snaffle Bit Futurity in Reno, Nevada. In conjunction with the annual horse show there was also a...
For a lot of horsemen, winter weather means being left with no place to ride, which means a lot of us end up not working with...
If you ride reining horses or cow horses you know that rollbacks and spins are important exercises to teach. But if you are a trail...
I train horses in southern California. That means I have more riding days available to me than probably anywhere else in the United States. ...
Have you ever been anxious about how an event might turn out? I have. Have you ever been aggravated about something someone said, or something that...
Have you ever had a buddy sour horse before”¦ a horse that won’t leave its buddy or the barn? When you to try to walk away...