Download: Break Your Colt

Hi! You'll be receiving your next issue of my horse-training newsletter in the next week or so - but I wanted to give you a heads up: My downloadable book, "How to Start a Horse: Bridling to First Ride" is now available! This is a step-by-step guide to breaking colts, from 1st-time bridling through the critical 1st ride. Written by John Lyons Trainer Keith Hosman, (that's me) you can print this course from home and be training 10 minutes from now! "How to Start Your Horse: Bridling to First Ride" is broken down into five "Days" or sessions: - Day 1: First-time bridling - Day 2: Bridle work from the ground - Day 3: Sacking out and first saddling - Day 4: Pre-mount work up - Day 5: First Ride - Bonus Chapter: "Reins: 5 Tips... " free print out As an added freebie bonus... I've included a free print out of "Reins: 5 Tips to Improve Your Use." Learn to handle your reins for quicker, easier results. A good 90 percent of the issues I see at a typical riding clinic could have been prevented if the rider knew a few simple rules about how to hold (and release!) those reins. (See article sample below.) Download "How to Start Horses" now for $6.99. It's broken into five "days" or segments - so that price works out to just over a buck day! But, wait there's more, as they say! + An extra extra bonus... Purchase a copy of "Start Your Horse" through the links in this email - and I'll throw in a free print out of a very popular article called "Cinchy Horses." It's "what to do" when your horse goes bonkers at the sight of a cinch. (You can print most of my articles for free - but I do normally charge for a handful of them, including the particular selections listed above.)   - - -   Other courses include: - "Your Foal" ($5.99) - "Trailer Training" ($4.99) - "Stop Bucking" ($4.99) - "Rein In Your Horse's Speed" (just $3.99) - "Round Penning: First Steps" ($5.99) Tip: Scroll down to see how to get several of these books for free!   - - -   - Tell a friend - Purchase this (or another) course

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Reins: Tips for Better Riding

Here's a sample from the article "Reins: 5 Tips for Better Training." (A free print out is included with the downloadable book "How to Start Horses.") "We clinicians teach "handling of the reins" in a particular order and emphasize certain aspects because we repeatedly see a pattern of "universal truths" from one rider to the next. We see this and we see opportunities to make marked improvements fast. Students don't realize how much pressure they're applying, that they never release, that they're actually rewarding poor behavior, etc. They're mad, the horse is mad – and they pay me to put on a black and white striped shirt and blow a whistle. "Stop fighting; go to your respective corners." This stuff is simple – but there's a pattern to it, a flow and rhythm. If you're having issues with your horse – or just want to improve as a rider, give this material a whirl. You'll find five tips – each with "your handling of the reins" as their focal point – each guaranteed to make your friends at the barn wonder if you haven't inked a deal with the devil. This is the material I cover most often, the stuff I hit the hardest, the concepts I believe to be the most important, the undercurrent running through the rest of our training. While I won't specifically deal with the mechanics of handling your reins, ("Hold them like so") the material covered will change the way you think and so will ultimately effect the way you do hold, release, etc. Bottom line: You'll improve much faster if you first understand the "why" behind the "what, when and how." Read the entire article by following the link or by visiting Horsemanship101.com/Articles. Print this article for $1.99 - or for free when you purchase "How to Start Your Colt" for $6.99. Our articles are online and available 24/7.   - - -   Thanks for reading! Keith Hosman, John Lyons Certified Trainer Horsemanship101.com