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Big Ten Tournament Wrap-Up: Thursday Night
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We don’t normally cover the Buckeye baseball team, but with the Big Ten Baseball Tournament held at brand-spanking-new Huntington Park , home of the , we decided to stop by for some yardwork. The double-elimination tournament started Wednesday night, but #1 seeded Ohio State did not play until tonight, as they received a first round bye. The Buckeye Bombers took on the #4 seeded Illinois squad, who had defeated Michigan State yesterday and they threw their first game hopes on the arm of sop
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| (Published: Thu, 21 May 2009 20:26:35 -0700) |
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Carolyn Resnick Horsemanship Blog: Horse Training from the ground up � Training a horse at Liberty
Training a horse at Liberty
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In this day and age it’s great to take advantage of the ability we have to share with each other YouTube videos. It is a wonderful tool I can use to guide you in how the connection looks, how to lead a horse through the Waterhole Rituals and what the result looks like. It is also very nice to have the support of my students sharing their perfect connection with their horses.
As this new way of sharing information unfolds, I want to call attention to the dangers of working a horse at liberty. The reason I what to do this is some people can make the mistake of doing things that are not safe. Some think that sharing a heart connection and being on a spiritual journey buys them some form of protection and magic and that they can therefore forget the dangers of working around and with a horse at liberty.
Horses at liberty can be more dangerous than they are with tack because of their natural self-expression (sudden movements, biting, kicking etc.) and their understanding that they are free to express themselves. A horse interacting with you as he would another horse could result in an accident. Horses are aggressive around food with each other, they commonly run into and through one another. Horses can be aggressive or fearful, which can bring a defensive response or they can lose focus. All these conditions are not a good thing if you don’t know how to choose the approach… Read more
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| (Published: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:00:55 +0000) |
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