General Articles of InterestAbout Gaits
- Site Map
- Is it a Pony?
- Weight-Carrying Ability
- Breeding Icelandic Horses
- Conditioning For Gait, by Liz Graves
- Definition of the Tolt
- Parelli 7 Games
- Preparing Your Horse for the Future
- Making The Change
- Ground Driving by Robyn Hood (TTEAM)
- NeckLine Driving by Robyn Hood (TTEAM)
- Mat Exercise and Benefits
- Neck Stretches
- Working With the Platform
- Impromptu Tarp Exercise
- Prevention of Hock Problems
- Working Cows With Icelandic Horses
- "What Gait" Series
- Saddle and Rider Position
- GA Maggie, Saddle Position
- Saddle Comparisons
- Starting a Young Horse With Groundwork Thru Natural Horsemanship
- Starting Your Horse with a Rider
- Important Report About Equine Dentistry
- Bit Mechanics
- Wonder / Gag Bits
- Pilates Helps Your Seat, and Therapy Ball Exercises by Maggie Parker
- Benefits of Single Rein Riding
- Vinur's Adventures 5
- Liz Graves' Gaited Horse Video, Gathering of Gaits
- Soring of Gaited Horses
- Featured Horses For Sale
- Does the Breyer Model Horse Adequately Reflect the Icelandic Horse?
Resources There are so many pages on this site; here they will be listed in alphabetical order. To contact us, please go to the Contact Page. If you have any pictures to share of your horses, or just questions, in general, please feel free to email us. .
Icelandic Horse Mousepad / Calendar
- Lee Ziegler, Easy-Gaited Horses (the gaited horse "bible") NEW!
- An Icelandic Horse Natural Horsemanship Play Weekend NEW!
- An Icelandic Horse Demo's and Exhibitions NEW!
- Carina and Stebbi with PNH NEW!
- Carina and Stebbi, Page 2 NEW!
- Gaited Horse Structure Video
- Liz Graves Clinic
- Liz Graves Clinic Report, June '04
- Liz Graves Clinic Report, Sept '03
- Marketing the Icelandic Horse in America NEW!
- Minna and Dagfari of Finland NEW!
- Parelli Natural Horsemanship, 7 Games
- Wanted: Icelandic Horses Trained With Natural Horsemanship NEW!
- Janet Fram of Vermont Training Lokkadis with PNH and Rising to Level 3!
- Training A Young Colt with Natural Horsemanship and Clicker Training
- An Young Gelding's First Impromptu Ride With Us
- Confidence Building In Training Young Horses
- Platform Work with Sunny
- A Fun New Obstacle!
- Hlynur in the New Obstacle!
- Our New Friend, Hnisa
- Practicing with a BIG Platform!
- Lateral Movement of a Foal
- Introduction to The Halter
- Mounting a Young Horse for the First Time
- Standing at the Mounting Block for Mounting
- Re-training Problem Icelandic Horses
- Groundwork for Young Horses or Horses Needing Re-training
- Asking Your Horse to Change Sides (Or Change Eyes) NEW!
- The Circle Game
- Putting Your Horse's Feet Where YOU Want Them NEW!
- Sending (Driving) Your Horse Thru Gaits and Around Obstacles NEW!
- Serpentine Thru Obstacles
- The IceRyder Icelandic Horse SidePull
- Riding With The String NEW!
- Tina and Natural Horsemanship NEW!
- Training Tign with Natural Horsemanship
- Training Tyra, an Older Icelandic Horse Mare
- A Spring Training Session
- A Young Girl Learns to Train her Icelandic Horse Mare
- The "Unwind" Exercise
- More Photos of The "Unwind" Exercise
- Practicing Some of the Seven Games NEW!
- Working with Poles (Cavaletti)
- Passenger Lessons
- Whoa, Riding To A Stop
- Re-training a Rehab / Rescue, and Riding in the Neckrope
- A Saddle Option for Starting or Re-training Horses, Cashel Soft Saddle
- Icelandic Horses Jumping At Liberty
- Keilir, an Icelandic Horse Stallion
- Aids or Cues?
- Accepting The Bit
- Alexandra Kurland Clinic Report
- Amazon Store
Quick Click Amazon Store American Gaited Horse Trainers A Day in the Life of Annie K Ansur Saddle Pictures Wanted: Apple Mouth Bit David Lee Archer, Trainer Email Discussion List Archives Arena Patterns by Val Asa Ro's First Outing ASCII Keyboard Functions (How to Make Those "Funny" Characters" Backing Up Exercises 1 Backing Up Exercises 2 Backing Up Exercises 3 Backing Up At Liberty Riding Bareback and Bridleless Baucher Barefoot Horses, Benefits of Barefoot Barefoot Saddle Pictures Fire and Foremost: Basic Training Before Gait Training Targeting: Benefits of The Beach Ball Beet Pulp as a Supplement for Over Weight, Prone to Founder / Laminitis, or Insulin Resistant Horses NEW! Frustrated With Bill's Comments Page Life-Changing Clicker Times with Bilbo NEW! Equine Biomechanics Bit Mechanics Bits as Communication Bit Study, Dr. Hilary Clayton Some Examples of Icelandic Horse Bloodwork BLUP, What Does It Mean? Is It a Valid Prediction Method? Problems With Bolting Schedule of Bone Fusion, Dr. Deb Bennett Books, Helpful, Education, Informative Training / Showing with Weighted Boots Teaching Your Horse to Bow Development of the Neck Muscles Breeding Icelandic Horses Choosing Breeding Stock / Choosing A Stallion NEW! Does the Breyer Model Horse Adequately Reflect the Icelandic Horse? Riding Bridleless Britta and Skolli, Parelli Natural Horsemanship in Germany NEW! Hints and Suggestions in Preparation for Buying an Icelandic Horse Working on the Canter with Icelandic and Other Gaited Horses NEW! Cashel Saddle Pictures Laminated Cards as Training Reminders Celebrity of the Month Centered Riding Making a Change 1 Making a Change 2 Making a Change 3 Making a Change 4 Making a Change 5 Change Maker Clean Trainers Clicker Clinic Reports Clicker Study Liz Graves' Icelandic Horse Clinic CD The Cloverleaf Pattern for Getting Better Turns Collection and the Gaited Horse Colors of the Icelandic Horse How to Catch Your Horse The Passing of Common Sense Conditioning For Gait Western States Icelandic Horse Conference Do Your Own Conformation Analysis NEW! Regaining Confidence After A Riding Injury by Bob Jeffreys, Partnership Training Gaited Horse, Conformation Analysis How to Evaluate Conformation Connected Riding Working Cows With Icelandic Horses Icelandic Horse Crosses (cross-breeds, cross-breds) NEW! Icelandic Horse Breeding and Culling NEW! Diagonal Advanced Placement in the Trot NEW! My Horsemanship Journey Definition of "Tolt" Importance of Equine Dentistry Desensitizing Your Horse to the Needle / Injections (or Vet) Leslie Desmond Clinic Report Discrimination, Brain, IQ Practicing Dismounts Marking The Points of the Horse Dream Catcher Dream Team Dressage Ground Driving Young Horses Balanced Draft - Breast Collars - Neck Collars (Book about Driving Your Horse) Edith and Thor of Austria NEW! EPSM NEW! Helene and Frenja of Austria NEW! Eir's Training Eitill, A Natural Horse Email Discussion Lists The End The Equine Healing Technique Called Energy Work Engagement of the Hindquarters No Engagement of the Hindquarters in Tolt Parelli Natural Horsemanship With Icelandic Horses in Europe NEW! Icelandic Horse Evaluations Hazards of Fescue and Pregnant Mares See Through Your Horse?s Eyes! by Bob Jeffreys Featured Icelandic Horses for Sale Training Your Horse with Feel My Horse is Fine; Why Does He Kick (Buck, Bolt)? American Flag The Flipping Up of the Front Foot; Landing Hard, Heel First The Foaling (Birth) of an Icelandic Horse What To Do Now That The Foal Is Here, Halter Training NEW! Foal Birth Weight NEW! The Support Phases of the Tolt (Rack) The Support Phases of the Tolt (Rack) 2 Tolt, A Gait On the Forehand Forging: What Is It and How to Make It Go Away! As Ponies, Are Icelandic Horses More Susceptible to Founder? Icelandic Horses and the Fox Trot NEW! Naming Your Icelandic Horse and Use of "Fra", "From", "Von", etc. NEW! Foot Flicking, High Front End Action Schedule of Bone Fusion Preparing Your Horse for the Future Improving Gaits Through Clicker Training The Gait Chart for Easy (Smooth) Gaited HorsesNEW! Gaited Dressage Test 1 Gaited Dressage Test 2 Gaited Dressage Test 3 The Gaited Horse Magazine Saddle and Rider Position Games Icelandic Horses Like to Play The "Driving Game" Gelding A Young Stallion Gelding A Young Stallion, Page 2 American and German Riding Getting GaitNEW! Schedule of Bone Fusion Golden Gaits Clinic What is Good Horsemanship? Grooming and Clipping Ground Driving by Robyn Hood Ground Driving by Robyn Hood 2 Ground Driving by Robyn Hood 3 Ground Driving by Robyn Hood 4 Icelandic Horse Stomachs and Intestines Riding in a Halter Bitless, Halter, SidePull Removing the Rope Halter from Under the Bridle Mr. Hand (Sheath Cleaning) Head Down Exercise Considerations for the Heavier Rider? Heel Caulks Determining a Foal's Potential Height Helmet Brims Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Dancing With Horses Natural Horsemanship for Icelandic Horses Taking Hold in Europe NEW! Effects of a High Head Hand-Walking Hlynur for Grazing Hock and Stifles - A Gaited Horse Issue Holar, Horse Training School in Iceland What is a Horseman vs. a Horse Owner From The Horse's Mouth (Book) How to Determine Your Horse's Weight Hlynur and Some Offspring NEW! HTML, Editing and Trimming List Messages Collection in Tolt, An Outsider's Perspective Mechanics and Action of the Icelandic Bit NEW! Negative Aspects of Tolting on Ice, IceTolt Competitions Identification, Protecting Your Icelandic Horse The Image of the Icelandic Horse for Marketing PurposesNEW! Index, Main Site Page Ineke (from The Netherlands) and PNH Insulin Resistance, Equine Omental Cushings Horse Insurance Things To Avoid for Insulin Resistant, Cushings, or Founder Horses Icelandic Horse Novelty Items, Mugs, Calendars, MousePads, Bronze Hooks, Plaques, Drawer Pulls Herd Reduction, Icelandic Horses for Sale, Central California Experiences Along The Way, by Joe Andrews Horse Health Spring Update, Laminitis, by Nancy S. Loving, DVM Lateral Work with Icelandic Horses in Tolt Interesting "Laws" NEW! A Young Girl Teaches Her Horse to Lay Down NEW! Leaning From Side To Side (Lumbering) NEW! Leaning Back, Sitting Back (or Sitting on the Loins To Get Gait) NEW! Lee Ziegler, Easy-Gaited Horses (the gaited horse "bible") NEW! Horse Lease Agreements The Leveller Noseband NEW! Lice NEW! Email List FAQs Listeriosis in Icelandic Horses NEW! Email List Guidlelines Liz Graves Clinic Reports Liz Graves Clinic Report Page 2 Liz Graves Clinic Report Page 3 Liz Graves Clinic Report Page 4 A Gathering of Gaits, A Gaited Horse Video Mandy, Tennessee Walker Mat Exercises and Benefits Developing Balance: Exercises Developing Balance: Using Your Horse's Feedback Mastering "Natural" Horsemanship Pattern Building Miniature Horse Stolen Minna and Dagfari of Finland NEW! Gaited Horse Clinic in Minnesota Misperceptions: Why Are Some of Us Impressed By People We Don't Really Understand? Multi-Gaited HorsesNEW! The Naturally Gaited Horse Natural Horsemanship Free Downloads (on-line videos and free book)NEW! Neckline Driving Neck Stretches for Gaited Horses Equine Newborns The Noseband NEW! One-Rein Stop NEW! Pacific Gaited Show Case, Oregon The Origin and Ancestors of the Icelandic Horse Cure That Pace Parelli Natural Horsemanship and Icelandic Horses Partial Lease, Icelandic Mare, Southern California NEW! Patti's Horses, Trained with PNH Gaited Horses, Gait Phases Pilates and Riding, Therapy Ball Exercises Pilates Clinic with Maggie Parker NEW! Platform Exercise and Benefits Platform Exercise and Benefits 2 Playground of Higher Learning, Use of Obstacles, by Robyn Hood An Icelandic Horse Natural Horsemanship Play Weekend NEW! Pleasure or Show Horse PNH, Parelli Natural Horsemanship Links Alois Podhajsky Icelandic Horse Population in the United States (and North America) Is It A Pony? Icelandic Pony and Founder; Don't Let This Happen To Your Horse! NEW! Promoters, Horse Traders, Breeders, Sellers NEW! Rick Lamb's Horse Radio Show, Natural Horsemanship, Training, and More Rainbow Bridge / Tributes NEW! J S Rarey, Horse-Taming by a New Method Mark Rashid Clinic How To Rate Speed in Gaits NEW! Hindquarters and Engagement Icelandic Horse Rescue and Rehabs Words From Rena, A Trainer NEW! RFD-TV and Horse Training Shows Ring of Muscles NEW! Road Founder (aka Concussive Founder) NEW! Roman Riding Understanding the Running Walk by Anita Howe NEW! Ryder Draw (Drawing a Horse to You) Saddles, Saddle Fitting The "Saddle" Gait of the Icelandic Horse Saddle Comparisons Saddle Position, Rider Position Saddleseat Riding Do Icelandic Horses Scare Other Breeds? Sweet Itch, Summer Exema / Excema / Eczema Gaited Horse Clinic, Diane Sept Sheath Cleaning Sheath Cleaning With Harley Icelandic Horse Horseshoes Show and Pleasure Horse Differences NEW! Single Rein Riding and Benefits Site Map Icelandic Horse Slaughter NEW! Teach Your Horse To Smile! Adjusting The Snaffle Bit NEW! Soring of Gaited Horses Spavin in Icelandic Horses Starting Your Horse (With a Rider) The Stepping Pace (Piggy Pace) NEW! Stolen Horses Stress in Icelandic Horses Tack Size Tailing Your Horse Up Hills Cueing Your Horse from the Tail The "Tail-Lift" Button Impromptu Tarp Training Thanks Starting a Young Horse With Groundwork Thru Natural Horsemanship Tina and Natural Horsemanship NEW! Toeing Out (Toe Out) NEW! Trail or Competition Horse Icelandic Horses and Trail Etiquette Problems with Tripping or Stumbling Ulcers in Icelandic Horses Vaulting with an Icelandic Horse Ventroflexion NEW! More on Ventroflexion NEW! Vertebrae of the Spine NEW! Liz Graves Icelandic Horse Gathering Video Vinur's Adventures 5 How Much Weight Can an Icelandic Horse Carry? "What Gait" Series 1 "What Gait" Series 2 Wonder Bit Tips for Worming NEW! X-Ray Before Buying Zimba, Icelandic Horse Stallion
Better Way, Leslie Pavlich Blue Skies Ranch Bruno, Dressage Mustage Circle 2 Gaited Horse Training Stand For Mounting Barefoot Trimming, Dani Judy Ebner's "The Perceptive Detective" Endurance Articles, Kristene Smuts FalconRidge Ranch Heart to Heart Ranch, Equine Holistic Therapy Bob Jeffreys, Partnership Training, Articles Kaktus Icelandics Horse Emergency Evacuation Team, CA Lee Ziegler Articles Liz Graves Articles Levi, Dressage Mustage Equine Bill of Rights J & P Ranch, Horseboarding, California The Magic Center / The NW Equine Clicker Training Center, Debra Olson Daniels Meredith Manor Articles by Ron and Faith Meredith Better Way, Leslie Pavlich Short n Sweet Ranch, Debby McCamman Cleaning Your Horse's Sheath Touch of Spirit, Intuitive Healing Icelandic Horse Training Cherie Mascis, Valkyrie Icelandics Vulcan Mesa Ranch Horse Quotes about Abuse
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One of the most frequent questions asked is
"Can Icelandics wear western saddles?"
Answer: "Yes! Be sure that the saddle properly fits the horse."
"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
"...Those who say things can't be done
should stand out of the way of those who are busy doing them."
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ~~Marilyn vos Savant
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning."--Albert Einstein
We all see 'correct' in some context of what we are used to.~~Elaine Elmer
If you listen to your horse with more than your ears,
you will hear him talking to you. ~~Judy Ryder Duffy
I'm a firm believer that horse owners should be in a perpetual state of learning.
We can never learn it all, and we should never think we know "enough."
"I may have different advice five years from now as I continue to learn..." ~~Liz Graves
Maya Angelou: "You did what you knew how to do,
and when you knew better, you did better."
The goal of our training is to bring the horse to the most important place:
where he wants to be with you more than he wants to be anywhere else.
"Those who devote themselves to practice without science are
like sailors who are put to sea without a rudder or compass
and who can never be certain where they are going.
Practice must always be founded on sound theory."
Leonardo da Vinci
Harry Whitney is quoted as saying: "So they're started, so they go."
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