Articles from Author Richard Winters

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Richard Winters clinic with cattle
July 13, 2010
Are You Ready For A Horsemanship Clinic?
Richard Winters

Over the last twenty years, Horsemanship Clinics have become very popular with horse enthusiasts. You would be hard pressed to find one of your horse loving friends who haven’t been to some type of clinic in hopes of improving their horsemanship skills. Clinics are a great...

horse and rider learning, horsemanship, horsemanship clinics, richard winters
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1. Being at the gate is a lot of work.
April 16, 2010
From Sour to Sweet - Fixing the Barn, Gate, or Buddy Sour Horse
Richard Winters

Have you ever found yourself in one of the following real life scenarios? You and your husband have paid good money to ride in a clinic and both horses get frantic every time you attempt to ride in opposite directions. You’re riding in an arena and every time you start back...

Performance Horsemanship, richard winters
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Richard Winters
November 18, 2009
Rein and Leg Management
Richard Winters

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controlling horse's front end, controlling horse's hindquarters, leg management, rein and leg management, rein management
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Leg Yielding
October 14, 2009
Leg Yielding to Side-Passing with Richard Winters
Richard Winters

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leg yielding, richard winters, side-passing
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Richard Winters
August 10, 2009
Richard Winters - Little Things that Make the Big Difference
Richard Winters

I define horseback riding and horsemanship as two separate categories. If you are simply a horseback rider, you’ve acquired a few basic skills that keep your mind in the middle and a leg on either side. Horseback riding is simply the act of not falling off. Almost anyone can...

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Richard Winters
July 13, 2009
Richard Winters - So You Want to Be a Horse Trainer?
Richard Winters

This summer I’ve had three young people come and ride with me in an apprenticeship program. These are great students and I enjoy working with them. On our first day together I gave them my “aspiring trainer” speech. I thought I’d share the condensed version with you.

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Richard Winters
June 10, 2009
Richard Winters Riding in the Real World
Richard Winters

Many of you show and compete with your horse on a regular basis. Your training regimen, no doubt, consists of mastering and refining those maneuvers you’ll be asked to execute in the show pen. Pleasure horse riders spend hours jogging and loping quietly on the rail. A cutter...

richard winters, trail riding
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May 4, 2009
Richard Winters - Whoa, Part 1
Richard Winters

Whether you are a weekend trail rider or a high-level performance horse trainer, stopping, and stopping correctly, is an absolute necessity. Let’s look at some basic elements to this maneuver. There are three cues that we can use to ask for the stop. I generally use all three...

richard winters, the whoa
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April 1, 2009
Richard Winters - Road to the Horse 2009!
Richard Winters

A few years ago, Steve and Tootie Bland came up with the idea of having a competition where horsemanship clinicians would showcase their colt starting skills. Working with young unbroken horses, in a specified time frame and under strict training guidelines, three clinicians...

colt starting, richard winters, road to the horse
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April 1, 2009
Richard Winters - The Counter-Canter
Richard Winters

“What’s going on? I thought that person was a good rider. Don’t they know that they are on the wrong lead?” That’s typically what the novice rider thinks or says while observing a trainer counter-cantering a horse.

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