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✨Welcome to the family Murphy✨ • • Murphy is 16.1h and thick! The second pic is for size reference, I am 5’10 He is very broke and a total teddy bear! He will be Joe’s new main mount. This does mean we are selling Lou We love him and he definitely filled his purpose, but seeing that Mav now has a far bigger butt+muscle definition kind of opened our eyes to Lou’s size. He is a big boy, but I think we thought he was bigger than he was because we were comparing him to our lean+teenage 3yr olds when we bought him. As Mav and Kota have filled out we started realizing how average sized he was and we noticed he has a hard time hauling Joe up steep hills. We are a firm believer in the 20% rule for horses (rider+tack=no more than 20% of the horses weight) and we feel like we were pushing it with Lou. Joe is a big guy and we just got our living quarters horse trailer because we have some awesome+long trips planned in our future! So we decided we needed to follow our guts and get a horse more fit to haul Joe on the long rides, even though it breaks our heart to sell Lou. He will make someone an amazing horse and he definitely did his job for us. As sad as we are to sell Lou, we are equally excited for the journeys to come with this big guy! Hope you guys won’t mind seeing a lot more of Murphy

Millie Training✨ Had a good session with Millie today! Got her haltered and refreshed desensitizing, which she handled amazingly Then I worked on yielding the hindquarters and sending exercises! She definitely struggled with the sending drill at first, she had no idea what I was asking. She is super smart and very sensitive tho, so once she knew what I wanted she did great Going to keep fine tuning it and working her on my lunch breaks AND after work so I can get her super used to haltering before the end of next week Tired of only being able to catch her in a round-pen haha #millietraining

A word to the rider who feels the process to winning in the show pen is too slow: “Every horse, and every rider, needs schooling shows - shows during which you regroup and fix mistakes and internalize feels and thoughts, in order to keep advancing. And it’s no different in any sport: hockey, soccer, football, you name it. At the end of certain games, you don’t feel as good about parts of your performance as you did at the conclusion of other games. And if you have a development plan, and goals, you can measure your advancement and be in control of your emotions. This is even more true when it comes to horses and riders, and the process of learning to ride, and show a horse competitively. And the only way you won’t have to go through all that is if you quit. But then, you will have to go through it anyway because this basic concept is true no matter what you’ll do. So, if you love horses and horse sports, you might as well stick to it and learn to enjoy the process of perfecting each drill during each ride, as opposed to focusing so much on horse show results.“ Photo by @taramckenziefotos . . . . #westernhorsemanship #specialneedsriding #therapeutichorsemanship #donttellmeicantdoit #westernriding #westernridingclinics #reining #reiningclinics #reininglessons #reiningcompetitionsi #coltstarting #startingcolts #barrelracing #barrelracingclinic #barrelracingtips #barrelracinglessons #barrelracinglessons #barrelhorsetraining #aqha #nrha #westernlife #horseshowlife #westernhorses #slidingstop #americanquarterhorse #younghorses

Did this again He was perfect, like always! • • • #hank #hankthepalomino #nrha #orha #reining #twoyearold #horsetraining #coltstarting #montanapreset #palomino #ranchhorse #ranchy #quarterhorse #horsesofinstagram #roping #western #cowhorse

One of our favorite things about our California headstall is that it looks fabulous with ALL our reins! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you have our California headstall, what color reins did you pair with it?

The more you increase your horses speed the more adrenaline you also increase. This will bring a horses anxiety up the faster his feet move. If you get your horse comfortable at a walk does not mean it is comfortable at a trot and if your horses is comfortable at a trot does not mean it will be at a canter. As soon as a horse is comfortable at a walk we work on the trot and then we move to the canter as long as the trot is good. The longer you wait to trot and canter the worse it will get. We want our horse to be comfortable at each gate but don’t stay at one gait or speed to long. Make sure you can move your horse at all gaits and then work on different speeds at different gates. The entire time on working on this we need to also work on relaxing after moving at different speeds. Get your horse moving out and bring him back to a place to relax. Soon you will have a horse confident at all gaits. If you get this accomplished on the ground getting it under saddle is easy. Make sure your horse can move at all gates without getting worried on the ground.

The more things your horse can learn to overcome the more brave they will be. The important key though with working with obstacles is that it’s not about getting them through something it’s how they get through it. To properly build the confidence of the horse we need to make it their idea to go through the obstacle. We do this by making less pressure at the obstacle and more pressure away. By making the thing we want to do involve less work the horse will find it as a place to relax. I will consider the horse good at an obstacle when I can just ask and they do it willingly and relaxed. If a horse completes an obstacle and is nervous about what it just did I will give them time to stand and relax. After they let down I work on the obstacle again. Give them some time to process and realize nothing bad happened before going back through.

Cheesin’ cause I know God has a perfect plan ☺️ Did y’all know that you were made with so much more capacity than you can currently imagine or comprehend? Just take a look at your physiology. In every one of your 37.2 trillion cells, there is a 6.5 foot strand of DNA. If all your DNA could be bunched up, it would fit inside of a single ice cube. But if we stretched them end to end, it would extend from the earth to the sun and back 70 times! Isn’t that insane And your cardiovascular system would be 60,000 miles, or 96,500 kilometers long if everything was stretched into a single line? That is two and a half times around the earth! You were literally made with the capacity to change the world. Act on it. ❤️✨

It’s that colt starting time of year! #coltstarting #meyercompanyranchhorses . . . . . #cowboy #cowboylifestyle #cowhorse #cowboysofinstagram #ranchlife #ranch #cowboyway #ranchy #ranchphotography #ranching #horsephotography #horse #horses #equine #horsesofinstagram #horsephotography #aqha #aqhaproud #quarterhorse #quarterhorsesofinstagram #horselove #horselife #horsetraining #horseylicious #ranchhorse