Slater Horse Training, LLC

Training Tips
Teaching Correct Lead Departures

Tricking your horse into the correct lead
I like to let my horse's natural body work for me as much as possible. And here I will use his natural inclination to want to get back to the other horses.
Only very well trained horses won't lean towards the gate (the exit point of the arena, or the point where the other horses are tied). And when my horse is on the farthest point away from it, his own body and mindset will make him pick up the correct lead. All I have to do is ask for the lope a few steps before that point, and get out of his way. More...

Online Clinic

Lay the correct foundations and build on them.
Go from walk, trot, lope/canter to collection, precision and obedience.
Communication... Learn what's normal and what's not, teach your horse w/ knowledge and understanding.
Members of the Online Clinic will receive a weekly lesson by email, guiding you thru the long patient process of building a well trained horse. Train things like Transitions (all the way to sliding stops), Laterals, Spins, Collection. More...

3 Day Personal Clinic

Spend a long weekend taking the fundamentals of Natural Horsemanship to the saddle

Due to Julia's varied background training horses, she has been able to assist each individual student with their specific needs, and to work with the learning they are pursuing at home. The main focus of the clinic is not to teach Julia's specific methods, but to use those methods to help the student get a better understanding of horse psychology and how it ties into all riding methods.

Ride our horses, bring your own... but prepare to ride for three days straight. More...

Cowboy Stories

My kids, Nick and Hannah, and I showed up at Dan and Virginia's ranch a little late, like usual. We were coming to help bring the cows to the mountain pasture for the summer. Everybody else was already there, so we went to the house to see what the plan for the day is.
As you walk inside the house you enter directly into the big ranch kitchen. It was packed w/ people. Dan and his son Josh were sitting at the table, a high school buddy of Josh's, Deb and two of her kids, Evan and Katie, Lee, an older cowboy who regularly hired out to different ranchers for the day, were there, drinking coffee and helping themselves to Virginia's delicious sweet rolls. Nate and MaeCile had also come to help, w/ a kid, Jered, from Harvard College, who had come to learn to be a cowboy for the summer, and a couple of other guests who were there for the week. More...

Horse Training and Lessons

Training
Your horse will be used in the feedyard for 30 days. The riding schedule is every other day. Take advantage of my experience training show horses applied to a Using Horse environment.

Lessons
Those who want to learn more advanced riding will find that I first and foremost teach Natural Horsemanship as it applies to the saddle. I will teach you to communicate with your horse. That means listening as well as telling him something. We all want to become ONE with our horses, and communication is the key to that.
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This site is #1 in the search engines for Free Horse Training Tips. There are over 30 pages of miscelleanous things that are commonly asked on various bulletin boards. How to teach your horse to lunge, how to train better lope departures, what to do about a dropped shoulder. I get lots of positive comments about my section on Riding Skills for Working Moms. Check them out and see if there is something that will help you.
But if you want to train your horse thru all the correct foundations to a fine tuned all around horse, sign up for the Online Clinic.
If you need some hands-on knowledge, come to one of my 3-Day-Clinics.
Maybe your horse needs some hands-on knowledge. Check out my training page.
Juiia

Julia Slater

Contact Info

Location: PoBox 302. Dighton, Ks, USA
Phone: 620.295.0241
Email: Julia@Slaterhorsetraining.com

A little History

1964-1980 I grew up in Germany, taking dressage and jumping lessons from age 5 on.
1980-1983 Moved to CT, went to boarding school in MD.
1983-1986 Worked in WY, primarily for outfitters, dude ranches and hunting camps.
1986-1997 Married and had two kids, worked for cattle ranches in WY, OR, NV, ID, and MT.
Began starting colts for the public in 1990.
1997-2000 Divorced, then moved to NY to take a computer related job. But I ended up starting and trouble shooting warmbloods for several barns in the southern NY area.
2000-2002 My son had a hard time in New England, so I moved my family back to a rural area... Dighton, KS. I took a job riding pens (cowboying) at a large feedyard, still starting colts and training horses for the public while riding at the yard.
2002-2006 Quit my job to concentrate on training horses, till personal tragedy hit in 2006.
2006-200? Went back to riding in the yard (still training outside horses... LOL, story of my life).

After 17 yrs of starting colts for the public, I finally burnt out on it last year. The first 30 days in a colts training shouldn't be 9-5 work for the person doing the teaching. So, at this time I don't take unbroke colts anymore. But I still take horses that have been started for further training. The feedyard is the optimal place to give any horse the kind of experience he can use for the rest of his life.
To find a training log for several horses I took to the yard, click on these HorseCity.com posts...
Palomino 5yr old Mare
Sorrel 3 yr old Mare
Sorrel 6 yr old Gelding