The horse needs to respect you, but sometimes people confuse respect & fear. And they're not the same at all.

You can't think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you'd better prepare em for it in other ways.

The comforting thing to the horse is, is as you become more and more accurate, he knows you’re aware of him, and pretty soon because of that he’s aware of you more and more of the time.

Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena.

Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it

A lot of times, rather than helping people with horse problems, I'm helping horses with people problems.

I often tell people in the clinics, the human possesses the one thing that means more to the horse than anything in the world, and that is peace and comfort.