CBR Horse Training

08/24/2025

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎 Lev Manning, Bailey Lundberg

Drop a comment to welcome them to our community,

08/16/2025

CBR Horse Training
🌾 Expert Horse Training & Riding Lessons – Over 30 Years of Experience 🌾
Looking to build a solid foundation with your horse? Want to improve your riding skills with guidance you can trust? With over three decades of hands-on experience, I offer professional horse training and riding lessons rooted in patience, understanding, and results.
🐎 Training Services Include:
• Starting young horses the right way
• Problem-solving and behavioral correction
• Tune-ups and finishing for seasoned horses
• Groundwork, softening, and responsiveness
• Trail and arena training
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• Beginners to advanced riders
• Western & English disciplines
• Horsemanship fundamentals
• Confidence building for nervous riders
• One-on-one or small group sessions
Whether you’re just starting out, want to reconnect with horses, or need your horse brought along by a steady hand—you're in the right place.
✅ Calm, respectful methods
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08/09/2025

Eye tension in the horse.

The horse’s eyes tell us a lot about their emotional state.

Eye tension is a pretty clear indicator of stress if you know what to look for.

In the top photo, this mare was worried and holding a lot of tension.

Even without seeing the rest of her face, this is very apparently in the eye.

The eye lid is pulled up into a triangulated “peak” and her eye is widened, exposing some of the sclera, also known as a “whale eye.”

In contrast, in the bottom photo of the same horse, you can see that her upper eye lid is soft and rounded and her eye is not widened.

Eye lid tension is one of the first indicators you will see of horse’s having an increase of stress.

It can vary in intensity, with low grade stress resulting in slight tension of the lid and a less extreme “peak.”

But if you start to take notice of the subtle changes in your horse’s face throughout different moments, it can help clue you in to when they’re becoming stressed BEFORE they have a big reaction.

It allows you to help your horse regulate sooner, before the stress spirals to a point where it’s much harder to relax from.

Eye lid tension can be present for fleeting moments when horses see stressors that cause anxiety, for example, looking at a new object they haven’t seen before, seeing something in the distance they’re unsure of, hearing a scary noise etc…

But it can also be present due to chronic pain, anxiety or discomfort and in that case it’ll be seen far more often.

It can also be telling if you notice your horse repeatedly becoming tense in the eye following certain stimuli, such as seeing you approach with their saddle or when standing at the mounting block.

All of this is valuable information that can help you to decipher how your horse might be feeling so that you can start to help them relax more.

Stress is a part of life but humans have a major role in ensuring that horses are not living in a state of sustained chronic stress or being put into unnecessarily high levels of stress during training.

We have a responsibility to train kindly and be conscious of our horse’s emotional state. Doing so will also keep us safer by noticing stress before it explodes.

Understanding the subtle signs of equine stress will keep humans safer when working with horses and will also improve horse welfare.

08/09/2025

First week of CBR Horse Training Horse Camp went fantastic. Lots of learning and fun!!

08/08/2025

A hoof for all seasons

Top: Pre trim in dry season
Bottom: Pre trim in wet season

A fully live well developed hoof has everything it needs to regulate moisture in and out whether it’s in a wet or dry environment. There are challenges in both wet and dry climates but a fully live hoof capsule that’s evenly grown around the coffin bone and then fully conditioned can thrive in any climate. All the horse needs is miles of actual wear, simulated miles of wear, or a combination of the two.

Pictured: Rusty, 12yo brumby, 1-4 week trim cycle for 6 years. Full album in Hoof Builders.

Trimmer (& owner): Mollie Cardigan

08/04/2025

I’m sure you have all seen the cuddling couple exposed on the Coldplay cuddle cam?

Well now I’m exposing a tendon cuddle.

Do you know which tendons they are?

Hint- if you feel behind the back of your horses leg, just above the fetlock you will feel a very taught rope like structure.