Before I will continue with the foals, I want to blog about a topic which is close to my heart. I want to talk about fear in the saddle, about the anxiety, a lot of riders experience when they ride their own horse or sit in the saddle of a new horse. Fear is an…
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Return to Work after the Summer
Like every year, I spent the summer holidays with my family in my native home, Germany. During those weeks, the horses were out on the farm, enjoying their time off, Rajmani included. I felt, six weeks of leisure to mull over what he has learnt so far, would do him good. Time for him to…
Rajmani: Development of a Young Horse
Today Rajmani has been with us for three months, time for another update! I did some long rein work with him this afternoon and just asked myself, where is the jittery, mouthy horse gone and when did Rajmani become so calm and easy to work with. It just happened over the last few weeks, bit…
Ponying Horses
Today I want to write a bit more general about one of the training methods I strongly believe in: Ponying along horses. Ponying a horse means leading a horse alongside the horse you are riding. The horse which is ponied along is also called pony horse (in racing the term is used for the horse…
Trotzkopf – When a Young Horse gets frustrated
Everyone who has raised children, knows temper tantrums. Some children have them occasionally while others have them regularly. It depends on the individual child and its character -there is not much you can do about that- and also a bit on how good you are at parenting. With horses it is very similar. Some horses…
Knowing When to Stop
Rajmani is well again and I have been working with him since Tuesday. As expected, the injury was minor and despite a little mark, nothing is left. Today I decided to teach him the command for canter on the lunging rein as I have up till now only done walk and trot with him on…
Hello world!
Welcome to the Marwari Horsemanship Blog! I am happy you found your way to my site. I created this space to document my journey with horses. More concrete, I will mostly write about training the 3 year old Marwari gelding Rajmani, a horse which came to our farm last week for training. My task is…