The Gallop
Snowed In? Here’s a Free Jump Course Design for Small Indoor Spaces
Setting courses in indoor arenas can present challenges in terms of space. TSB author Susan Tinder does not use wing standards in her indoor arena (pictured here), and she only...
With Horses, the Eyes Have It
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter,” wrote Charlotte Brontë in Jane Eyre. “Often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter—in the eye.” We get “lost in” them; we can just as easily...
The Importance of Letting Go When Connecting with Your Horse
We’ve all heard and by now probably rolled our eyes at the popular maxim, “If you love something, set it free.” Certainly, when it comes to horses, there is...
With This Ring Finger, I Thee Ride Better
Closing the ring finger on the reins is like completing an electrical circuit. In her book 40 5-MINUTE JUMPING FIXES, expert riding instructor Wendy Murdoch explains the “Ring Finger Connection” when...
A Filly Named “Patriot” Takes on the Colts–Our Local Star in the Making
Huntington Farm of South Strafford, Vermont, is just over two hills and across a river from the TSB offices. We’ve ridden there, competed there, worked there, filmed DVDs and photographed books there....
Winter Horse Training Secrets: Try This 3-Minute Lesson When Time Is Short (or Your Hands and Feet Are Cold!)
Good horsemanship is as easy as 1-2-3! “It’s simple, really,” explains educator, horse trainer, and author of 3-MINUTE HORSEMANSHIP Vanessa Bee. “When the teaching session is short and ends on a positive...
Rider+Horse=1: Demystifying Flexion
When you ride, whatever your discipline, you are forever asking the horse to flex this way, or that way, or a little less, or a little more. This is NOT the kind...
Yielding to Resistance–A Lesson from the Masterson Method for Horses
With the Masterson Method of bodywork that relaxes the horse and relieves his body—including muscles and connective tissue—of deep stress and pain, you listen to what the horse’s body has...
TSB’s 2014 Horse Books & DVDs: A Quick Glimpse Back Before We Ride Forward
The winter sun rises over the TSB warehouse in Vermont. As we wrap another year in the Trafalgar Square Books offices here in Vermont, it feels good to pause and...
Happy Holidays! Watch the TSB Horses Enjoy Their First Snow in Our Video Short Story
Few out there would deny delighting in the season’s first snowfall. Horses, too, find it an excuse to be young again and enjoy a roll, a buck, a frolic. We...
When You Add to Your “Pool of Knowledge,” Being with and Training Horses Is All the More Rewarding
The year winding to its close in a flurry of parties and family and (at least here in Vermont) snow often inspires nostalgic glances back while perhaps ambitious resolutions are cast forward....
“Santa, Please Bring Me a Pony”—6 Ponies-for-Presents Videos from TSB
Who among us doesn’t remember the ache of wanting, wishing, hoping, even believing that THIS year would be the year that Santa persuaded a pony to wait quietly and patiently under...