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Ross Jacobs
July 1, 2025
Training

A HORSE'S TRY AND WAITING FOR ITS TRY

Ross Jacobs
July 1, 2025
Training

Waiting has always been a challenge for me. I think those early years of learning to be effective also taught me that horses were meant to be on my schedule, not me on theirs.

Tagged: waiting, try, Fjord

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Ross Jacobs
June 27, 2025
Training

WHAT IS HORSE TRAINING?

Ross Jacobs
June 27, 2025
Training

Wikipedia states, “Horse training refers to a variety of practices that teach horses to perform certain behaviors when asked to do so by humans.”

Tagged: thoughts, training, feel

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Ross Jacobs
June 24, 2025
Pressure

PRESSURE THAT TEACHES AND PRESSURE THAT DIRECTS

Ross Jacobs
June 24, 2025
Pressure

Driving is a pressure used for teaching how to respond to directing pressure. Driving pressure teaches and directing pressure guides.

Tagged: driving, directing

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Ross Jacobs
June 20, 2025

WHAT IS THE HARDEST CAREER FOR A HORSE?

Ross Jacobs
June 20, 2025

I was thinking about what would be the hardest career for a horse. We all have horses to fulfill our agenda. We obtain a horse with a career in mind.

Tagged: movie horses

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Ross Jacobs
June 19, 2025
Horsemanship

THINKING

Ross Jacobs
June 19, 2025
Horsemanship

“We have the aspiration of creators and the propensity of quadrupeds” – W. Winwood Read.

Tagged: thinking, tom dorrance, Harry Whitney, science

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Ross Jacobs
June 17, 2025
Training

A PRINCIPLE OF TRAINING TO CONSIDER

Ross Jacobs
June 17, 2025
Training

Many people believe that if you address what the body is doing you fix how a horse feels and what it is thinking. This is blatantly not true.

Tagged: mental, emotional, biomechanics, posture, movement

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