A new series for Horses For LIFE! This visual series will assist you in training your eye to discern correct and incorrect movements and training methods. In this article, we will be looking at bending as opposed to leaning.

Dreaming of fantasy equitation - what is the real purpose of the high equitation? Together let us dream of perfection and find out where Beudant says it can be found.

Many of the problems humans have with horses are due to the simple fact that horses are prey animals, and humans think and act like predators. See how often you trigger the fight or flight instinct in your horse!

The BHS comes under fire for an article written in their Jan / Feb edition entitled "Sanitising". A paid up member of the BHS tries to find answers to the question, "Why is the BHS, who have been concentrating lately on the welfare of the horse, now promoting a method which has become highly contentious?"

The Purple Pony shares his monthly exercises on how to have educated hands...hands that know what they're doing...hands that realize exactly what their effect is on the horse. Because otherwise ... Ouch!!

Our readers' opinons are always of great value to us here at Horses for LIFE. Give us your thoughts.

Horses For LIFE assists one of our dedicated readers with her easily spooked horse.

“In my paper I stated that, from a behaviorist point of view, there was no such thing as teaching, only learning. I stated that knowledge needed to be voluntarily pulled into the brain by the student and that it was very difficult to push knowledge into an unwilling brain." Monty Roberts