Collection of posts from the past and today
focusing on
Listening to Your Horse
Your “Horsiness”, Wear Your ‘Genes’ Tightly
Have you ever wondered where your so-called "Horsiness" comes from? Well, I am here to tell you that most times it is from our mothers. I have witnessed this with many of my acquaintances in the horse world and through my own experience. Our mothers may not be...
Time To Update Your Relationship With Your Horse?
There are times when your personal life, or the matters that come first in your life, come before your partner, your partner that you have spent so much time developing what you think is a perfect relationship. Well, I have a driving job that takes me away from my...
Part Two, Teaching a Foal to Deal with Restraint
Part Two: Teaching a foal to deal with the ever-present restraint that will be present in their lives. In Part One of this series, I had discussed dealing with around 40 foals in the mare barn who were exposed to a deadly disease. These foals needed to have their...
Part One, Educating foals from the time of conception?
Educating foals from the time of conception? Can we do that? In my opinion, YES! The education of a horse begins from the time of conception and starts way before that with the education of the dam and the choosing of the sire. Why do I come up with such crazy things...
Memories, Why I chose the Spanish-Egyptian Bloodlines
"*El Shaklan". The Immortal classic example of the Golden Cross, Spanish-Egyptian Bloodlines How and why I came to choose the "Golden Cross" as exemplified in El Shaklan One day in 1985 I was busy at my Birkenstock shoe store in Beaverton Oregon. My friend Walter...
Fighting Our Nature
Fighting Our Nature We may think that we are real Horsemen. But are we? Personally, I had learned the most important, basic principle of dealing with horses, not before I embarked on my journey with them, but after making many mistakes. My purpose in life now is to...
Excerpts from the Horse Listener
Excerpts from "The Horse Listener", the first book in the Horse Listener trilogy by Internationally published best selling author Mark M. Hanna "What better way to explain it than from the heart of the ones who experienced it." Mike would often explain to me...
