Do you have trouble backing your horse up (rein back)? Does he raise his head and hollow his back? Does he refuse to move? Do you try to pull your horse back with the reins? Here’s a quick tip to ease your back up woes. Next time you ride, stop and back your horse up […]
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SURE FOOT Equine Stability Program Nominated for Innovation award
Winner will be announced March 16 at EQUITANA in Essen, Germany WASHINGTON, Va., Feb. 19, 2015 – Wendy Murdoch’s SURE FOOT Equine Stability Program has been nominated for EQUITANA’s Innovation Award, one of the most prestigious product awards in the European equestrian sports marketplace. The award is given to innovations in six categories: stable, hall […]
SURE FOOT sessions work magic for “unsound” dressage-turned-trail mount
“The SURE FOOT® Equine Stability program has made an amazing change in our 17 hand DWB mare, Tamara. We were given her two years ago to be my son’s trail horse. She was deemed too unsound to be a dressage horse anymore. She was supposed to be kept on joint supplements and pain killers all the time […]
Murdoch Minute No. 117 Close The Lower Front Door
Do you have difficulty opening your hips in rising trot? Hollow your back? Sit on the front part of your seat bones? Is your horse on the forehand? Many riders hollow their back when riding but this tips the pelvis forward and down, sticks the seat bones out behind, closes the hip angle and puts […]
Horses change themselves with the SURE FOOT Equine Stability Program
Mugsy Dehere is a 6 year old OTTB and a SURE FOOT junkie. As a racehorse Mugsy was very, very girthy and had to be tacked up while walking. He reared whenever someone attempted to saddle him while he was tied or standing still. When Cathy Gulick started using Mugsy as a horse for her […]