Using the Belmont Park training track to prepare for a grade 1 stakes on the grass at Gulfstream Park is not the conventional approach, admits trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. This approach, however, seems to ...

TO QUOTE THE Glen Campbell song, “You Got to Try a Little Kindness” when training an unbroken or wild horse to willingly accept human touch and then respond to asked tasks. “The first step in all ...

[Music] what would you advise regarding time breaks from training for green started and more mature horses how much time off would you give a horse from being ridden at different stages of his ...

On a balmy morning in mid-July under a tent in the middle of a field in Litchfield, the flies taunting his horses, Jason Spieth is crossing his fingers that rain would stay away so he can teach his ...

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Whether you are watching a master Liberty trainer like Ben Atkinson at work at Your Horse Live or you are trying it at home with your own horse, there is something very special about liberty horse ...