What goes into the cost of a driving lesson?
Driving lessons are expensive!! More expensive than riding lessons, and most trainers do not keep lesson horses for students to use in...
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jess3152
- Mar 18
- 1 min
Rein Safety (written by Carolyn Aarup, Dakota Winds Farm)
Bight of rein safety By Carolyn Aarup, Dakota Winds Farm The “bight” of your reins refers to the excess/loop of your reins between your...
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jess3152
- Mar 15
- 3 min
Sweeney Shoulder
Sweeney Shoulder -What is it? If you’re lucky you’ve never heard of a shoulder sweeney in horses.Sweeney shoulder is caused by damage to...
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jess3152
- Feb 4
- 2 min
Brief Guide to Starting a Driving Horse (From The Ground)
Every time you interact with your horse you are training him. That means that even if you don't think you are a trainer, you are! You can...
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jess3152
- Feb 9, 2023
- 1 min
Driving Saddle Placement
Driving saddles generally have trees just like riding saddles. It's very important that the saddle not be placed too far forward. It will...
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jess3152
- Jul 1, 2022
- 4 min
Long Lines / Double Lungeing 101
Longlining (aka double lungeing) is a training method that has been used for centuries to help teach the horses new skills without the...
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jess3152
- Jun 14, 2022
- 3 min
Can a Spooky or Flighty Horse be Trained/Retrained to Drive?
I get asked this question a LOT. Recently, my friend in Canada, Carolyn Aarup, summed up this answer perfectly on her Facebook page...
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jess3152
- Jun 7, 2022
- 1 min
Training and Lesson Help
If you’re looking for training to get started driving or to fine tune your skills, I’m available and ready to help. I have opening for 1...
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jess3152
- Apr 26, 2022
- 1 min
Harness Parts 101
I’ve had quite a few requests for harness parts videos. Today I got around to making a video on the parts of a single Hungarian style...
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jess3152
- Mar 30, 2022
- 1 min
A Video Lesson on Achenbach Reinhandling with Adam Canaday
Let me start off by introducing my very good friend, Adam Canaday. Adam, a Journeyman Coach Driver at Colonial Williamsburg, is a very...
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jess3152
- Mar 22, 2022
- 2 min
How Should My Horses Be Placed in Position to The Pole?
The distance between your horses in relation to the pole is determined by the placement of the swingletrees (aka whiffletrees -not sure I...
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jess3152
- Mar 17, 2022
- 3 min
Bits, bits, and more bits!
Here’s some bits from my collection of bits with some brief explanations. This isn’t an all inclusive bit post, as that would take a huge...
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jess3152
- Mar 3, 2022
- 2 min
Driving a Carriage Downhill
Recently I googled "Driving a Carriage Downhill" and found out there are a lot of "how to"s on RIDING downhill, but nothing much on...
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jess3152
- Mar 2, 2022
- 2 min
Putting-To a Pair
Here is a little how-to on putting a pair to a carriage. Planning to drive a pair? First thing I want you to do is find this book and buy...
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jess3152
- Feb 26, 2022
- 5 min
Carriage Driving in The Age of Social Media "Experts"
We all started somewhere. No one was born knowing how to put harness on or knowing the order of operations for putting a horse to a...
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jess3152
- Feb 19, 2022
- 4 min
How To Set Goals and Achieve Them
This quote has become one of my new favorites: “Bees don’t waste their time explaining to flies why honey is better than sh!t. Remember...
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jess3152
- Feb 15, 2022
- 2 min
Full collar, Euro collar, Breast collar… Which one?!
It’s a question I see asked a lot lately… Is it better to use a full collar, euro collar, or breast collar? I think the answer is both...
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jess3152
- Feb 10, 2022
- 1 min
Open Minded Horse Training: Carriage Driving
Today’s TED talk from Jess: Open minds. As trainers of horses, we all have something in common: the best outcome for our horses. Doesn’t...
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jess3152
- Feb 8, 2022
- 2 min
Training Aids to Longline the Driving Horse
If you rode horses in the 90s and early 2000s, you heard of and saw the “Pessoa System” series of ropes and bungees that were the hot new...
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