I. About Our Raising Program
Your young horse will grow up with lots of space to exercise at will, and with the emotional benefit of being raised by the herd. We introduce training principles at a pace each horse is comfortable with, until your horse is ready to select its career. The fundamentals of our approach are based upon first building a relationship with your horse, then teaching exercises that build upon one another and are never repetitive or boring for the horse. In time, the horse will choose its discipline, and we ask clients to be open to this process.
How do we let the horse decide? We spend a lot of time building the horse-human relationship, so that we can observe and intuitively sense, as horses do, when the horse is comfortable with the work as directed, or when the horse does not like the work. Our workshops teach this approach. For example, regardless of breeding, some horses love to jump, some don't. Some are gifted in the classical art of dressage, and love to "dance" - some"dressage horses" would rather jump, and are quite good at it. Some are "speed" horses, and enjoy the challenges of eventing. Some naturally move in a rhythmic gait characteristic of a hunter or equitation horse. If you watch carefully the horse's reactions to what is asked of it in a training session, you will know and you will sense what is best.
We have developed our raising program around the principles taught at Epona Equestrian Services, LLC. Authenticity, Relationship, using Emotion as Information. We apply these principles in our work with horses - sensing and feeling while acting/interacting with our horses.
Our breeding stock is versatile athletically and of high quality, representing some of the finest bloodlines in the Hanoverian and Holsteiner worlds. Most of our mares can produce horses for any discipline, such as jumping, eventing, hunters or dressage. We believe that if the horse is allowed to "choose" its discipline, that this ability to choose is fundamentally the best way to give the horse its best chance to perform athletically to its fullest potential.
We are also happy to raise your young horse, or help you with a "problem horse". We strongly encourage adopting horses when you have the means to do so, and will help you evaluate a prospective horse to help you make a good choice.
Please contact Toni at 970-846-8591 or Kim at 970-846-6588.
II. Rehabilitation -
Minor Sports Injuries, Performance and Behavior Optimization
Through the innovative field of Equine Touch founded by and T-Touch Therapy, founded by Linda Tellington-Jones, we offer clients another means to improve the lives of their Equine Partners through Balance, Integration of Mind, Body, and Spirit, and improvement of Physical Comfort - all benefits of ET and TTouch.
We currently refer clients to practitioner Raian Kaiser near Loveland, CO, for this service. Raian willingly travels to conduct clinics, (miniumum of 4 participants, up to 12) and travels locally to clients own barns to teach horse owners how to use ET for their own horses.? She teaches all levels of TTouch and TTeam training.
Contact Raian at 970-203-0725 for more information.
III. Colt Starting and Working with "Difficult" Horses
For Colt Starting, we refer our clients to Kim Johnson, founder of Natural Collection Horsemanship. Kim does a lot of the groundwork with our foals and young horses, and has basic training in the Epona approach. "Kim has recently completed an intership with Jason Patrick, blending her own methods and intuitive skills, with many of Jason's proven techniques for success." She is patient and kind, and has a true love for the horses.
Kim Johnson
(970) 846-6588