Here are videos that show some of my training with Ranger, a Morab Gelding whose recognized daddy is Windmere Royal Topaz. In this photo he’s being ridden by my recognized daddy, trainer Wes Licht. Three years ago I trained Ranger to ...
Read more →Hi, this is a note to tell you about the upcoming clinic I’ll be giving at the end of August. Please write in the comments box or call me with questions at (608)215-5200 – Sara Licht
What: A Clinic where you can bring your specific training questions or behavioral issues and get practical solutions. I will be working with a few horses at the clinic and explaining it as I work. ...
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Rainy and I have both been working on our individual art styles and methods. Below are some of her paintings and a video clip of her at work. I used the clicker training method to encourage her to free up her artistic inclinations.
This is a video clip taken while Rainy ………..and I were ...
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When I met Stacey Westfall last year at the Midwest Horse Fair, she told me that her most valuable exercise was the clover-leaf cones pattern, and she explained it to me.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RptQ0SlCvoY[/youtube] I began using it and have found it valuable on many levels. I use the repetition of the same directional turns to teach green horses to move away ...
Read more →[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ux-2BESjE[/youtube]This video is a short explanation of one way I teach a horse to stand still for mounting and mounting preparation. I will climb up on the roundpen fence and can support myself there while waving one leg over the horse’s back, and even giving him some weight on his back, without risking my well-being. If he gets upset, I’m still supporting myself with the fence. Then just go back to a place where he was getting some success and ...
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These 5 videos below will show some of the timing and methods I used to help this horse learn some beginning groundwork:
This young Quarter Horse was tamed in a few days by my friend and dressage trainer Meghan Kavanah, who brought him from having no interest in people whatsoever, to haltering, beginning leading, and developing a good curiosity for human interaction. I only had one session with him as I was ...
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I returned from a busy winter of training Trakehners in Florida a few days ago, and am getting things lined up for this coming season of horse training and art in Wisconsin. Updates coming, and more educational clips to help with specific training questions as well.
If you have questions about my methods for training a horse to drive, safe methods to train a horse to ride, trick training, ground manners, ...
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I brought Rainy to Pat’s barn, and she helped me to feel what “pushing the horse up into your hands” feels like, and then she worked with Rainy while I watched. Rainy and I have both been building our abdominal muscles since this lesson! See the video clips below of Pat teaching me about this.
Previously I had been struggling ...
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Diesel is an adorable pony mule that I have in for training to ride and drive. Here he is about 3 1/2 weeks in, and he’s looking more fit and less furry.
This video is from day 9 of our training together. ...