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"Active VS. Passive" Leadership!

In the equine world, leadership is the key to survival and many of these professionals communicate their opinion of equine behavior and how we should cope with this dynamic. The question now becomes, what form of leadership is right for us? 
 

In the human world, some people define leadership simply as getting people to work to achieve common goals and giving people a reason (motivation) to work (active leadership). Other people hold that leadership is the ability to influence the behavior of others, to set up goals, to formulate paths to those goals, and to create and guide toward good behavior (passive leadership).   To read the rest of the article.

  "Ask the Expert"  Northwest Horse Source

We are happy to announce that Randy is featured on "Ask the Expert" at Northwest Horse Source. If you have questions you would like have answered, just click on the link and Randy will be glad to answer it.

Randy's website article entitled "Ground Manners 6/6/09" will be featured in the "Trainer's Corner" of the August 1st issue.

Question:
My name is Briana. I’m training a 2-year old mare and she does not know her ground manners. What do I do and how do I teach her good ground manners?

• "Dates & Times" may very
• July 19, 2009 - Yelm, WA
• July 25, 2009 - Yelm,WA
• Aug 2, 2009 - Arlington, WA **
• Aug 8, 2009 - Yelm, WA
• Aug 15, 2009 - Yelm, WA
• Aug 22, 2009 - Vashon, WA **
• Aug 29, 2009 - Yelm, WA
• Sept 5, 2009 - Yelm, WA

Please e-mail me with your information if you want to attend Morning, Afternoon or Both sessions. Let me know if you will have any special needs or accommodations (trailer backing, trailer loading, or ??) for the clinic and I will do my best to make this a positive and safe learning experience for both you and your horse.

After 5 years of training, riding, and giving lessons, Lucy age 14, went to a great new loving home with Stuart Emery age 13.

This is one of those success stories we hear from time-to-time. Five years ago, Lucy was given to Randy because she was not producing colored babies and no one could ride her because of her bucking problems. She had been passed from one trainer to the next. After she sustained a devastating injury to her left hind leg, the breeder had considered the possibility of euthanizing her.

Over the last 5 years she have been through the John Lyons Certification program, ridden across the state of Washington on the John Wayne trail, rode one end of the Pacific Crest Trail to the other, she also was used as a lesson horse for the last year. After watching Stuart and Lucy, we know it is a "Perfect Horse match".

"DIAMONTE FINDS NEW HOME! 

Diamonte is a 3 year old APHA 14hn gelding that was neglected this last winter. When we found him he was infested with lice and was 15-20% underweight with rain rot throughout his coat; he alwo had sunken eye sockets, ribs sticking out, and hip bones extruding out. "He was a mess". Now he is in a loving environment.
After 6 months of rehabilitation and training, he went to a 13 year old 4H girl, Emily.