Stress-free travelling

Take the stress out of travelling your horse. This step-by-step program will change your life. No more worrying if he will load or not. No more anxious nights before an event wondering if you will get there, or get home again!

  • A step-by-step guide to teaching your horse to self load

  • Travelling tips and advice

  • Over 7 hours of teaching material

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

    • A message from us

    • Why we self-load

    • The approach we will follow

    • How to use the material

    • Before you start - share your goals with us?
  • 2

    Some essential ground work

    • Overview

    • Checking Apollo out

    • The basic yields

    • Understanding steady pressure

    • Following a feel - Leading day 1

    • Following a feel - leading day 2

    • Confidence with a feel behind

    • Send on a circle

    • Send past

    • Checklist
  • 3

    Creative use of obstacles

    • Overview

    • Send between barrels

    • Send over a bridge

    • Send over barrels

    • The tarp - session 1

    • The Tarp - session 1 cont

    • The Tarp - session 2

    • The Tarp - session 3

    • Checklist
  • 4

    The trailer - session 1

    • Overview

    • Introducing the trailer

    • Preparing the position - session 1

    • Sending the nose - session 1

    • Thinking forwards - session 1

    • Checklist
  • 5

    The trailer - session 2

    • Overview

    • Confidence with the trailer - session 2

    • Confidence in the position - session 2

    • Checklist
  • 6

    The trailer - session 3

    • Overview

    • Just another obstacle - session 3

    • Moving the sweetspot - session 3

    • Confidence in the new sweetspot - session 3

    • Checklist
  • 7

    The trailer - Session 4

    • Overview

    • Reinforcing the new sweetspot - session 4

    • Find the gap - session 4

    • Creating incentive to stay in - session 4

    • Getting busy - session 4

    • Getting busier - session 4

    • Checklist
  • 8

    The trailer - session 5

    • Overview

    • Find the spot - session 5

    • Creating the contrast - session 5

    • Ending with less - session 5

    • Checklist
  • 9

    Changing location - generalising the behaviour

    • Overview

    • Changing locations - sessions 6,7 & 8

    • Jack - changing position example

    • Checklist
  • 10

    Preparing for the bar

    • Overview

    • Preparing for the bar

    • Setting up the string

    • Simulation with the string

    • Securing the bar

    • Checklist
  • 11

    Preparing for the ramp

    • Overview

    • Preparing for the ramp

    • Preparing for the ramp pt 2

    • closing the ramp

    • Next steps for Apollo

    • Checklist
  • 12

    Denis's story - the unconfident loader

    • Overview

    • Denis's story

    • Denis's story pt 2

    • Denis's solo journey

    • Denis's solo journey pt 2

    • Denis wrap up
  • 13

    Tying

    • Preparation for tying up

    • The John Wayne/Bankrobbers knot

    • Tying "dos" and "don'ts"
  • 14

    Loading & travelling two horses

    • Loading two horses

    • Unloading two horses
  • 15

    Angle-loaders and trucks

    • Loading onto angle-loaders and trucks

    • Tying in the angle-loader/truck
  • 16

    Bonus - Q&A

    • Trailer Tips

    • Q&A -how do I know when to close the bar?

    • Q&A - My horse loads ok but is worried about travelling

    • Q&A - what do you do about horses pawing ?

    • Q&A - how do you prepare for long trips?

    • Q&A - what do you do on long trips?

    • Q&A - what about sideloaders?

    • Q&A - what are the pre-requisites for travelling two horses?

    • Q&A - what would you do with a horse that scrambles?
  • 17

    Next steps

    • Wrap up

    • More resources for you

    • Before you go...

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Your Instructor

About Russell Higgins

Russell is a New Zealand-based clinician and horseman who is internationally known and respected for both his teaching and his horse development skills. He has been a frequent demonstrator at Equidays and Equitana Auckland and wows the crowds in the night shows with his spectacular liberty performances with his "boys". After training in the US over 20 years ago he has now taught in 18 different countries and started young horses on four continents. He recently featured in the iconic New Zealand television series "Country Calender" and has written for New Zealand Horse and Pony Magazine. He is based at Brumby Farm Horsemanship Centre, his purpose-built facility that he owns and runs with his partner Ruth Carlyle. They both trained in natural horsemanship and continue to learn with respected horsemen and women from all disciplines.

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