Posts Tagged ‘patience’


Patience Pole

April 21, 2018
Savanna Simmons

I saw a post that Ashley Mershon shared to Facebook of a gelding who tied well, but didn’t have the best patience when he was alone—no horses or humans around. Ashley’s way of working on this was to tie him to her patience pole and allow him to pull on himself until he was ready […]


Waiting For The Feet

August 31, 2016
Jolyn Young

Most colt-starting theories and clinicians urge people to get their horse’s feet moving freely at all three gaits as soon as possible. If you’re not trotting and loping in the round pen on the first ride, you better be movin’ by the second. It’s a great theory that works on all horses except for the […]