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Michael Peace - Think Equus

Michael Peace is a specialist Horse Trainer working with young and problem horses at all levels
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Michael Peace has worked professionally in the equestrian industry for nearly four decades and every year has the privilege of working with more than 500 horses and their owners across the UK and beyond. Known predominantly for his success with young and problem horses, he is also an accomplished rider and instructor renowned for improving partnership and performance in both horse and rider alike.

His understanding and knowledge of horses along with his phenomenal talent, dedication and professional reputation make him the only choice for people looking for the best positive outcomes for their horse. "seeing Michael in action was a revelation"

"his calm and quiet nature was perfect"

"the transformation in my horse has been beyond expectation"

"a true professional who knows his job"

10/08/2025

Think of this not just as a riding lesson but as a 'Michael Peace horse training session'.
This young horse didn't understand how to free himself up and go forward with a rider in the school and when pushed, bucked his rider off.
"it was like riding with the handbrake on"

"Getting them listening to you and responding to your inputs is what will get you both out of trouble.
......but he won't know that until you demonstrate that what you have to say is of value to him - listening to us is the biggest thing we can teach!"
Michael Peace

Michael Peace is in Oxfordshire for local visits on Fridays next week he is in Essex and Suffolk, Surrey/Sussex then Gloucestershire on home training sessions. So if you feel like your training is not progressing and your local person is out of their depth why not to make the leap and do the best by Your Horse and book a kind, ethical and true Horseman with an excellent reputation plus 40 years professional hands on experience with over 100 reviews. For ridden training and groundwork issues like loading, leading and shoeing, please send a messenger with your postcode and a bit of horse history and I will get straight back to you. The cost is £360.00 + travel & VAT.

31/07/2025

‘Have you done a Join Up? … No I have made myself someone the horse wants to be with!’ Michael Peace is in Oxfordshire for local visits on Fridays next week he is in Essex, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire on home training visits. So if you feel like your training is not progressing and your local person is out of their depth why not to make the leap and do the best by Your Horse and book a kind, ethical and true Horseman with an excellent reputation plus 40 years professional hands on experience with over 100 reviews. For ridden and groundwork issues like loading, leading and shoeing, please send a messenger with your postcode and a bit of horse history and I will get straight back to you. The cost is £360.00 + travel & VAT."The best horsemanship ever is a 50/50 partnership and this is what we should strive for every second we are working around our horses. In a partnership each party does his or her bit for the benefit of the whole. You help each other out whenever necessary because you recognise the value of each other's input. In a genuine partnership, each party gives 100% and there is no resentment or exploitation between the two players. It's a relationship founded on respect and responsibility and each party must work to make the adjustments necessary to keep the partnership balance. As long as both parties are happy with the deal they get overall, the partnership will be productive and develop. Horses have evolved to live in groups, and find it impossible to survive outside on their own. They are very sociable animals and put a large amount of emphasis on creating effective interactions with members of their group. It's important to them. They know the position of others. Anything that upsets the balance is addressed instantly by all members.The big advantage of this is that horses therefore understand the concept of co-operation perfectly before even begin work with them. It isn't something they need to learn from us, rather something we need to understand and learn for ourselves. We have to learn how to live and work with horses the way other horses would." Think Like Your Horse by Michael Peace

08/07/2025

Lovely having this lot back as neighbours for the summer ❤️

07/07/2025

Michael Peace is traveling back from Nottingham to Oxford tomorrow and has availability after 11.30am for a home training session.
Please send me a messenger with some Horse history and a postcode and I’ll get straight back to you.

30/06/2025

Loading Issues? Pressure and Release???? …… In the Middle is "Feel" this is where Horsemanship begins with Michael Peace.
Loading normally has three parts which can cause trouble.
1. Loading off and on.
2. Standing on.
3. Shutting in.
4. Traveling (which is rare).
Each part needs to be consolidated before moving on. This year the shutting in is becoming an increasing issue. With so many different approaches to loading the horse must have a genuine understanding and be comfortable with each stage before moving on.
If you feel like your training isn't progressing and your local person is out of their depth, why not make the leap, and do the best by your horse by booking a kind and true horseman with an excellent reputation plus 40 years of professional hands on experience. For ridden and ground work issues like loading, leading & shoeing. Michael Peace is in Oxfordshire for local visits Fridays next week he is in Essex, Hertfordshire and Gloucestershire with discount travel. Please send a messenger with your postcode a bit of horse history and I will get straight back to you.
The Middle Ground Theory
I firmly believes that there is not a bad horse born. There may be bad horses about but they certainly didn’t start like that. Some are easier to get on with than others but all have some softness in them that can be developed if we know how to do it. The ‘middle ground theory’ helps people understand how to work with horses a little better.
‘All horses have an area of tolerance in which you can work with a certain amount of inconsistency and get away with it without causing problems to you or to him. Provided you work within this area of tolerance (or ‘middle ground’ as I like to call it), you can be too hard sometimes and the horse won’t resent you and too soft at other times and the horse won’t exploit you. In other words, the relationship can go slightly out of balance without you doing any permanent damage.
If however you work outside the limits of the middle ground and for example are really too hard sometimes or really too easy at others, you will begin to damage the relationship. The ‘middle ground’ will erode and cause the horse to become less and less generous. In this case the middle ground will eventually become a fine line at which point the horse will give you very little room for manoeuvre in future encounters. This is when a horse is considered a problem horse and requires skilled, delicate and precise handling/riding to restore the middle ground'.
Michael has not met a horse that he could not help by widening the fine line to give the owner or rider room to work again.
Michael Peace © 1999
Think Like Your Horse. Michael Peace helping horses all over the U.K. on home training sessions.

19/06/2025

Day out of the office too hot for working horses.

29/05/2025

Horses Nap (ie refuse to go forward) for many different reasons. Most commonly it's due to fear of something or something they associate with a previous bad experience. If a horse is afraid we must help him out.
Michael Peace is travelling around on home training sessions he is normally in Berkshire and Oxfordshire for local visits on Fridays. Next week he is in Leicestershire on Monday then going down to Devon and back to Somerset & Gloucestershire. Then up to Staffordshire and Shropshire the week after. So if you feel like your training is not progressing and your local person is out of their depth why not to make the leap and do the best by Your Horse and book a kind and true Horseman with an excellent reputation plus 40 years professional hands on experience do look at over 100 reviews.
For ridden and groundwork issues like loading, leading and shoeing, please send a messenger with your postcode and a bit of horse history and I will get straight back to you. The cost is £360.00 +travel & VAT.

The Middle Ground Theory
I firmly believes that there is not a bad horse born. There may be bad horses about but they certainly didn’t start like that. Some are easier to get on with than others but all have some softness in them that can be developed if we know how to do it. The ‘middle ground theory’ helps people understand how to work with horses a little better.
‘All horses have an area of tolerance in which you can work with a certain amount of inconsistency and get away with it without causing problems to you or to him. Provided you work within this area of tolerance (or ‘middle ground’ as i like to call it), you can be too hard sometimes and the horse won’t resent you and too soft at other times and the horse won’t exploit you. In other words, the relationship can go slightly out of balance without you doing any permanent damage.
If however you work outside the limits of the middle ground and for example are really too hard sometimes or really too easy at others, you will begin to damage the relationship. The ‘middle ground’ will erode and cause the horse to become less and less generous. In this case the middle ground will eventually become a fine line at which point the horse will give you very little room for manoeuvre in future encounters. This is when a horse is considered a problem horse and requires skilled, delicate and precise handling/riding to restore the middle ground'.
Michael has not met a horse that he could not help by widening the fine line to give the owner or rider room to work again.
Michael Peace © 1999
Think Like Your Horse. Michael Peace helping horses all over the U.K. on home training sessions.
So if you feel like your training isn't progressing and your local person is out of their depth, why not make the leap, and do the best by your horse by booking a kind and true horseman.

11/04/2025

Is your horse running rings around you? Michael Peace will help on a home training session.
Michael Peace is in Oxfordshire for local visits on Fridays next week he is in Gloucestershire on Monday then Essex going up to York on home training visits. So if you feel like your training is not progressing and your local person is out of their depth why not to make the leap and do the best by Your Horse and book a kind and true Horseman with an excellent reputation plus 40 years professional hands on experience with over 100 reviews. For ridden and groundwork issues like loading, leading and shoeing, please send a messenger with your postcode and a bit of horse history and I will get straight back to you. The cost is £360.00 + travel & VAT.
"The best horsemanship ever is a 50/50 partnership and this is what we should strive for every second we are working around our horses. In a partnership each party does his or her bit for the benefit of the whole. You help each other out whenever necessary because you recognise the value of each other's input. In a genuine partnership, each party gives 100% and there is no resentment or exploitation between the two players. It's a relationship founded on respect and responsibility and each party must work to make the adjustments necessary to keep the partnership balance. As long as both parties are happy with the deal they get overall, the partnership will be productive and develop.
Horses have evolved to live in groups, and find it impossible to survive outside on their own. They are very sociable animals and put a large amount of emphasis on creating effective interactions with members of their group. It's important to them. They know the position of others. Anything that upsets the balance is addressed instantly by all members.
The big advantage of this is that horses therefore understand the concept of co-operation perfectly before even begin work with them. It isn't something they need to learn from us, rather something we need to understand and learn for ourselves. We have to learn how to live and work with horses the way other horses would." Think Like Your Horse by Michael Peace

06/04/2025

Update now out competing at 3* Eventing, before he would rear rather than rein back.
Michael Peace is in Oxfordshire for local visits Fridays, next week he is in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Leicestershire.
Then the following week Essex going up to York on home training visits. So if you feel like your training is not progressing and your local person is out of their depth why not to make the leap and do the best by Your Horse and book a kind and true Horseman with an excellent reputation plus 40 years professional hands on experience. For ridden and groundwork issues like loading, leading and shoeing, please send a messenger with your postcode and a bit of horse history and I will get straight back to you. The cost is £360.00 +travel & VAT.
"The best horsemanship ever is a 50/50 partnership and this is what we should strive for every second we are working around our horses. In a partnership each party does his or her bit for the benefit of the whole. You help each other out whenever necessary because you recognise the value of each other's input. In a genuine partnership, each party gives 100% and there is no resentment or exploitation between the two players. It's a relationship founded on respect and responsibility and each party must work to make the adjustments necessary to keep the partnership balance. As long as both parties are happy with the deal they get overall, the partnership will be productive and develop.
Horses have evolved to live in groups, and find it impossible to survive outside on their own. They are very sociable animals and put a large amount of emphasis on creating effective interactions with members of their group. It's important to them. They know the position of others. Anything that upsets the balance is addressed instantly by all members.
The big advantage of this is that horses therefore understand the concept of co-operation perfectly before even begin work with them. It isn't something they need to learn from us, rather something we need to understand and learn for ourselves. We have to learn how to live and work with horses the way other horses would." Think Like Your Horse by Michael Peace

26/03/2025

"Terrified & defensive with her lunging at you with her teeth not just playfully nipping" K post on FB "Looking for recommendations for a positive reinforcement trainer for a Feral 2 year old that's showing aggression with fear of being handled. She has bitten me quite badly twice now which I understand why but obviously it's making it unsafe to try and handle her. The breeder couldn't get near her so she still needs a passport and microchip". K
The Middle Ground Theory
I firmly believes that there is not a bad horse born. There may be bad horses about but they certainly didn’t start like that. Some are easier to get on with than others but all have some softness in them that can be developed if we know how to do it. The ‘middle ground theory’ helps people understand how to work with horses a little better.
‘All horses have an area of tolerance in which you can work with a certain amount of inconsistency and get away with it without causing problems to you or to him. Provided you work within this area of tolerance (or ‘middle ground’ as i like to call it), you can be too hard sometimes and the horse won’t resent you and too soft at other times and the horse won’t exploit you. In other words, the relationship can go slightly out of balance without you doing any permanent damage.
If however you work outside the limits of the middle ground and for example are really too hard sometimes or really too easy at others, you will begin to damage the relationship. The ‘middle ground’ will erode and cause the horse to become less and less generous. In this case the middle ground will eventually become a fine line at which point the horse will give you very little room for manoeuvre in future encounters. This is when a horse is considered a problem horse and requires skilled, delicate and precise handling/riding to restore the middle ground'.
Michael has not met a horse that he could not help by widening the fine line to give the owner or rider room to work again.
Michael Peace © 1999
Think Like Your Horse. Michael Peace helping horses all over the U.K. on home training sessions.

12/03/2025

This is the little horse with the big heart that Michael Peace has been working with, after being banned from racing and sent home after six weeks by the man that fixes stalls problems as ‘the worst horse he’s ever seen’.
Michael’s unique approach to get genuine understanding and acceptance with no pressure halters, blindfolds or food at its best.
"He reared over backwards out of pure fear and broke out of the stalls with no one on him before I asked Michael Peace - Think Equus to work with him. I am sat on him knowing if I get injured I am out of business, I am happy and trusting the situation. I would sit on him all day in the stalls.
No one should ever knock someone who promotes and has great success with a non violent approach with horses, horses are massively misunderstood and still give all they can to us." SE
The Middle Ground Theory
I firmly believes that there is not a bad horse born. There may be bad horses about but they certainly didn’t start like that. Some are easier to get on with than others but all have some softness in them that can be developed if we know how to do it. The ‘middle ground theory’ helps people understand how to work with horses a little better.
‘All horses have an area of tolerance in which you can work with a certain amount of inconsistency and get away with it without causing problems to you or to him. Provided you work within this area of tolerance (or ‘middle ground’ as i like to call it), you can be too hard sometimes and the horse won’t resent you and too soft at other times and the horse won’t exploit you. In other words, the relationship can go slightly out of balance without you doing any permanent damage.
If however you work outside the limits of the middle ground and for example are really too hard sometimes or really too easy at others, you will begin to damage the relationship. The ‘middle ground’ will erode and cause the horse to become less and less generous. In this case the middle ground will eventually become a fine line at which point the horse will give you very little room for manoeuvre in future encounters. This is when a horse is considered a problem horse and requires skilled, delicate and precise handling/riding to restore the middle ground'.
Michael has not met a horse that he could not help by widening the fine line to give the owner or rider room to work again.
Michael Peace © 1999
Think Like Your Horse. Michael Peace helping horses all over the U.K. on home training sessions.

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