Occupation: Horse Trainer Birth: January 29, 1962
Like Tom Dorrance said, ‘It boiled down to one thing: observe, remember, and compare.’ Do something, observe what you did, remember what you did, com….
Timing is everything..
Everything you do with a horse is a dance..
I often tell people that I truly want the horse to be my feet and legs. I want to be an extension of the horse and him to be an extension of me. That….
That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is.
I started to realize that things would come much easier for me once I learned why a horse does what he does. This method works well for me because of….
Think of the horse as your partner.and it's all one great dance. That's not to say it's always going to be easy or you won't have to work through is….
You can accomplish amazing things with this if you have a passion and you work hard - I just think it’s a cop out to say 'I wasn’t born with this, so….
You can't think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you'd better prepare em for it in other ways..
Most people don't realize how little it takes to get a horse to move..
That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're dark or if you're light, or if yo….
Don't get on a horse that's moving..
Horses are consistent and logical. The horse will do what is easiest for him. If you make it easy for him to buck you off, kick you, and run away, th….
I’m just trying to get people to understand horses. You have to be consistent and logical, use your brain, and not be emotional and not lose your tem….
You try to do as little as you can, but you need to do as much as is necessary to get a result. When you get a result, you do less..
Some guys make their careers off one horse; kind of a trick horse, a wonder horse. I'm not knocking that, but for me I'm trying to get better and stu….
A horse that has made a positive change in his behavior needs an opportunity to 'soak', to concentrate on & digest what he has learned. He needs his ….
If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'bu….
I don't believe in waiting for a horse to do the wrong thing and then punishing him after the fact. You can't just say no to a horse. You have to red….
Doing something right once in a while will far surpass anything done wrong more often..
Your Horse is a mirror to your soul..