Editor’s Note: Best Horse Practices Summit presenter Katrin Silva grew up riding dressage in Germany before moving to the United States at age 19 to learn to ride Western. She’s been riding both disciplines for the last 20 years and is a regular guest columnist […]
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Amy Skinner Review
Debbie Hight, a Best Horse Practices Summit board member, longtime Mainer, and frequent NickerNews guest columnist, reports from a recent Amy Skinner horsemanship weekend in Norridgewock, Maine. Photos generously provided by Julie Kenney. By Debbie Hight Amy Skinner has written: If what the horse truly […]
Read moreSilva’s Three Sacred Cows of Horsemanship
Katrin Silva grew up riding dressage in Germany before moving to the United States at age 19 to learn to ride Western. She’s been riding both disciplines for the last twenty years. Silva has competed successfully through fourth level dressage on quarter horses, Morgans, Arabians, Hanoverians, and […]
Read moreSpoiler Alert: Amy Skinner on pitfalls for horse enablers
The horses we get in training at Bar T Horsemanship undergo considerable changes in their lives while they’re with us. They leave their normal routine to stay in a strange place with new horses and people. Not only is their environment different, but their treatment […]
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