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The bias of us, trainers.
The hardest thing in training any animal, to change, or encourage a behaviour is the human bias of what we feel about the behaviour. But...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Mar 17, 20231 min read


Questions over the years. Topic: DM Exercises.
“But I didn’t do that exercise? Why didn’t you tell me to do that??” Your horse, under the expectations you place on it, doesn’t need...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Mar 16, 20233 min read


Directional predominance - forelimbs.
Horses show strong indicators of being predominant in forelimb directional influence - therefore, the forelegs tend to define the...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Sep 26, 20221 min read


Stopping the flight response: or teaching the flight response.
Commonly misunderstood ’trained expressions of flight’ used in the corrective approach to overwhelming, or overshadowing fear responses...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Sep 23, 20221 min read
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