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Too often with dressage training and horse training in general, methods are forced upon the animals without attention being paid to what the animal is thinking. Horses will often submit to pressures but never fully understand what they are supposed …
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Save the date — Saturday, June 1, 2013 – to participate in a local hike, cycling event, horseback ride, trail maintenance project, paddle trip, health fair, geocaching activity, photo safari, birdwatching expedition, and more. Whatever you like to do outdoors, there is bound to be an event that will match your interests. If you don’t find …
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Connecting equine enthusiasts with Central Oregon’s equestrian activities and horse-related businesses.
In 2008, I purchased my first horse and started training him for the exciting sport of equestrian trail course competitions. However I had trouble finding the events in time to register and plan my schedule. I quickly realized there wasn’t one …
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CentralOregonTrailHorse.com is looking for its February ‘Featured Business of the Month’.
Every month, CentralOregonTrailHorse.com highlights a Central Oregon business on our website’s home page, Facebook page and thru local media outreach. It helps promote local businesses and meanwhile provides our readers with valuable Central Oregon information. As a Featured Business advertorial, an article about your …
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It’s time to stop watering the weeds and start watering the flowers! You might have snow on the ground or freezing temperatures where you are right now and think I’m crazy… http://spicie.com/health/stop-watering-the-weeds-and-start-watering-the-flowers/
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Check out Central Oregon Trail Horse’s online directory of equine transports and shippers serving Central Oregon. http://centraloregontrailhorse.com/business-directory/transportation/
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Avoid heartbreak; before taking possession of your next horse, make sure the person selling him has the authority to do so… ask questions! http://www.netposse.com/newsviewer.asp?id=825
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Planning an event for 2013? Central Oregon Trail Horse provides free event listings in our Community Events Calendar for ANY horse-related activity! There is no charge to add your event, this is part of our service to the community. To add your event, go to http://centraloregontrailhorse.com/submit-an-event/ (if you know of …
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Horses are classified as herbivores, or roughage eaters. They are grazing animals with digestive systems designed for constant consumption of plant food.
With its small, simple stomach and large fiber-digesting hindgut, the horse is designed to eat small portions in a continuous fashion…
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Hey, fellow equestrians! Would you like to meet people to ride with? Or find out about new trails to ride? Then come join Oregon Equestrian Trails!!
We have fun group trail rides and campouts, we have interesting speakers on horse and trail riding topics at our monthly meetings, and we work closely …
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by Jeffrey Rolo (reprinted with permission)
Every year horse owners experience serious injuries or even tragic deaths while riding their cherished equine companions. One of the more significant causes of rider injury is a rider being tossed from a rearing horse… or worse, caught underneath a horse that reared so fiercely that it flipped over …
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By Shari Maguire
If you haven’t read “Making a Pleasure Horse – Part 1 & 2”, than I suggest you do so now; the exercises mentioned in those articles should be applied to all horse training before you begin any schooling program. The bending/flexing, flexing approach of this training program quiets, relaxes and …
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by Shari Maguire
Now that you have developed the comfortable cadence and rhythm from the day to day repetitive exercises of bending around your inside leg, flexing the head and neck, suppling the five body parts we talked about earlier, the head, poll, neck, withers and shoulders, it’s time to move on to the trot.
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by Shari Maguire
The training sessions are easier and more successful if you start with a horse that has the conformation suitable for this particular discipline.
Ideally, the Western or English pleasure horse should be long across the topline of the neck and short on the bottom line. This makes it easier and more natural for the horse to carry its neck in the right spot. Not too high or too low, just about level from the poll to the withers, the nose no more than 3-5 inches in front of the vertical not behind the vertical or “behind the bit”.
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