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Barbra Schulte is a personal performance coach for all riders, a cutting horse trainer, author, speaker, and clinician.  Visit her Blog and signup to receive her FREE monthly email newsletter, “News From Barbra”.  You will also receive the high performance secrets of great riders, inspiration, cutting strategies, news, and much more.  In addition, you will also receive via email Barbra’s special FREE report: “Five of the Most Important Skills of Riding”.  Go now to http://www.BarbraSchulte.com.

Greetings everyone...it's still hot and still July.  Nothing like a good warm humid day to start haltering colts.  I have to say I did start my 'friendly' game as soon as they were born.  I normally start the babies when they are a month or two old.  I was not able to do that this time as lots going on with my family and work and training, and oh yes...I have added training dogs to my horse world.  You can see the dogs for now on my Facebook page.   Anyway, let's get back to haltering big colts that are now 3 and 4 months old.  Yikes.  I had to get out all my savvy and get 'er done.  First as I said I was corraling them with my arms, rubbing and scratching.  They love their butts and tails scratched, so I worked my way into their hearts throught their butts.  Kind of funny.  In fact Pistol at first would whip his butt around at me and I thought he was coming to kick m... more

Good day everyone,
Getting started with my new blog...mainly will be stories, poems, issues, insights, and updates on what I am doing as a student of natural horsemanship.  I am grabbing up my camera to document visually all that will happen to include the training of my filly 'Bunny' as well as starting my two new colts born this year. One is named 'Gibby' and the other is 'Pistol'...nice performance bred colts.  Come and join me as I proceed.  You will also find stories of horses being saved from all kinds of madness.  There will be updates and information on the new horse sport out there with American Competitive Trail Horse Association and more!  Let's connect...learn from our equine partners, save those that cannot help themselve and unite this great nation through the love of horses...to me horses played and play a huge role in the success of humanity at large...for now I will focus on the United States.  Be blessed ... more

While you may know Julie as a horsewoman extraordinaire, you may not know that she is also a very talented photographer.

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