Driving lessons are expensive!! More expensive than riding lessons, and most trainers do not keep lesson horses for students to use in...

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...

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...

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...

Driving saddles generally have trees just like riding saddles. It's very important that the saddle not be placed too far forward. It will...

Longlining (aka double lungeing) is a training method that has been used for centuries to help teach the horses new skills without the...

I get asked this question a LOT. Recently, my friend in Canada, Carolyn Aarup, summed up this answer perfectly on her Facebook page...

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...

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...

My mother told me I asked for a pony about 5 minutes after I was born. So I’d say “equine obsessed” is a pretty accurate and simple...

Let me start off by introducing my very good friend, Adam Canaday. Adam, a Journeyman Coach Driver at Colonial Williamsburg, is a very...

The distance between your horses in relation to the pole is determined by the placement of the swingletrees (aka whiffletrees -not sure I...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...