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Ideas and training tips to help you catch a horse when it is hard to catch or hides behind another horse; when separation anxiety causes an overload; when boots cause tension; and the best way to stop a young horse from chewing on ropes

Training tips to prepare a horse to be ridden; advice for a horse that does a small pig-root; girthiness; pinned ears - and when long reining leads to a low head carriage - is this okay?

How best to prepare a horse for a show and is there an age you would not expose them to a show? How to show a horse that a small mob of goats is okay; and how to prepare for a Mark Langley horsemanship clinic.

Tips for the horses are that brought back into work: recommended training; an OTTB who has a slight head toss; how to begin riding a horse who was really shut down; and handling advice for a horse that gets repetitive ulcers

Techniques to help with a horse's thoughts who bounce around continuously; a horse who doesn't respond to the flag; and a highly trained horse - how to diagnose if their response is due to sensitivity or evasion. Also - what Mark looks for in a saddle.

Is imprinting worthwhile? Discussed and explained in this special episode.

How I took Zorena and Whiskey on their first steps with me on them.

An inside look into the preparation of getting Zorena ready to be ridden. This lesson covers the first time I sit on her.

This lesson started as a lesson to improve awareness on a sensitive mare. Techniques to teach using the belly rope and leading. Offering an alternative to a horse who can be quite distracted when something bothers her. It progressed into using the flag to interrupt her thoughts and improve her centredness.

Using the belly rope to help prepare a sensitive horse for legs and a rider.

Using the long reins in a horse that is very quiet, dull and reserved. Insights into why I am cautious around these reserved horses. How I use the long reins to get him to search and become more aware in some tight spaces.

After some time off, Stacey is bringing her horse back into work. Some ideas on how to improve ground work with circling and body control.

A training tip that will help you on trail to keep your horse's thoughts present with you. This can avoid tunnel vision and trail rides that forget to have a conversation.

Being aware of where your horse's thoughts might be and how to work with this. Understanding why tacking works. I find that it helps for them to come back into centre with me without using technique (like pushing) that makes them want to be further from you.

How to undo hyper-focus into direction towards their thoughts. This is a short exercise to do but it is a great one to do with any horse.

Short training details that make all the difference - this is how and why I use the one rein start