So welcome 2012. Please be filled with mild weather and absent of bad luck. This time next year, I want to be writing about everything we did. [More]

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Figuring out these details and more are part of what makes showing yearlings all the more interesting. No two are alike and the sooner you mold your program to fit your yearling instead of the other way around, the sooner happiness and success in your relationship and showing is going to come. [More]

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Participate in the Longe Line Poll [More]

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Most clubs and facilities have easy access to a bridge, which will make it a common portion of the In Hand Trail pattern at weekend shows. [More]

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My focus at home is to practice body control and the parts of a trail pattern, but it's still nice to study the flow of the whole thing every now and then. [More]

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While some of us may wish that our longe liners (or longeliners) would lounge around on the end of their longeline as opposed to lunging forward at breakneck speed, it is absolutely not correct to call them loungeliners or lungeliners (except in jest). [More]

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Longeing is an essential skill for a well rounded horse to have and should be added to his training whether he is showing in the Yearling Longe Line/In Hand Trail or not. [More]

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The importance of proper leading skills can't be overemphasized for yearling in hand trail. As entries in this new class continue to rise, the patterns will continue to become more complex. To be really ready and really competitive for the larger shows in the fall, such as the APHA Fall Championship World Show, I would really like to have my yearling leading as nicely as a well started showmanship horse. [More]

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Every maneuver or obstacle in yearling in hand trail or yearling longeline can be drilled down to one simplicity: body control. [More]

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