Rachel Kerr
How to go about buying a horse - a personal story of the highs and lows of horse shopping
The moment is here! You’ve done the math. You feel you can ride well enough that you want to move on from the wonderful lesson horses...
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Rachel Kerr
- Sep 22, 2021
- 1 min
Equine Behaviour Workshops, come and join us!
We've started running a series of workshops looking at equine behaviour. The first one started with 'How horses learn' and we looked at...
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Rachel Kerr
- Aug 28, 2021
- 2 min
How to start Clicker Training your horse.
A few months ago we published an article called 'How to start Positive Reinforcement through clicker training your horse. We are starting...
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Rachel Kerr
- Aug 28, 2021
- 1 min
Why do horse buck?
Last year during lockdown I was inspired to deepen my learning of equine behaviour, so I studied a module in Equine Behaviour from the...
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Rachel Kerr
- Jul 7, 2021
- 2 min
Meet Lisa, number one Buddy fan and super vet!
Tell us about yourself... I’m a veterinarian. I work with companion animals and exotics. I have a special interest in animal behavior and...
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Rachel Kerr
- Apr 18, 2021
- 5 min
The darling of the barn, meet Dale!
For those who have been fortunate enough to have crossed paths with Dale he soon becomes a firm favourite and has been a reliable member...
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Rachel Kerr
- Apr 4, 2021
- 6 min
Welcome to Lincourt Stables, Marilyn and Danilo
Marilyn started having lessons a few months ago and recently bought Danilo, a 10 year old Andalusian gelding. Tell us about yourself I’m...
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Rachel Kerr
- Feb 25, 2021
- 2 min
Welcome to Lincourt Stables, Peter & Diva.
Peter joined Lincourt Stables in the autumn of 2020 and started having lessons with Patricia. He has just leased his first horse,...
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Patricia Lincourt
- Feb 25, 2021
- 2 min
Release, Relief, Reward
The title of this essay is above. Release, Relief, Reward. As a rider I have not separated these terms in my head until recent years. I...
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Rachel Kerr
- Jan 5, 2021
- 5 min
Part 1: How to start using Positive Reinforcement through Clicker Training your horse.
Let’s start at the beginning, what is Positive Reinforcement (R+)? Have you heard of Positive Reinforcement? What about Clicker Training?...
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Patricia Lincourt
- Jan 5, 2021
- 5 min
Part 2: Getting started with Clicker Training - how to ‘Charge the clicker’
There are some very important steps to getting started with Clicker Training, one of which is getting your horse to associate the sound...
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Liparit Hambardzumyan
- Jan 3, 2021
- 3 min
Why are horses good for people?
This is a blog post guest written by one of our students at Lincourt Stables, Liparit Hambardzumyan. Liparit and his brothers have been...
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Rachel Kerr
- Dec 6, 2020
- 4 min
Lesson #6: Horses are horses, right?
Your horse is a horse, not a human. Obvious? Yes of course! Horses don’t remember things like humans do, they don’t think logically to...
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Rachel Kerr
- Sep 2, 2020
- 2 min
Lesson #5: A creative journey in finding new teaching methods
The past 6 months have been a challenge in many ways, but also an opportunity to try new things and be creative. One of the new elements...
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Rachel Kerr
- Aug 2, 2020
- 2 min
Lesson #4: We are always learning! What 2020 has taught me so far, in equine terms.
What 2020 has taught me so far, the view of an equestrian
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Rachel Kerr
- Jun 7, 2020
- 4 min
Lesson #3: Target practice - cones are your friend :)
We’ve moved on a little from your classic lunge lessons and on to using target practice on the ground and then in the saddle. The...
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Rachel Kerr
- Jun 7, 2020
- 4 min
Episode #2: Our first lessons, the lunge!
We start on the lunge, the idea being that this would be a good way for me to get the feel of a big moving horse like Bob while not...
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Rachel Kerr
- May 28, 2020
- 4 min
Episode #1: The Bob diaries...Positive Reinforcement from the heart of Los Angeles.
Before we start let me say a word about this diary…this is my experience of learning to work and use positive reinforcement methods to...
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Rachel Kerr
- May 22, 2020
- 3 min
Friday Thoughts - teaching tricks and having goals
Below are some Friday thoughts to ponder upon...and that I ask myself when there is time to reflect. Please leave a comment below, we...
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Rachel Kerr
- Mar 25, 2020
- 5 min
Motivating your equine partner (and yourself) with positive reinforcement
I wrote this blog several weeks ago, since then things have changed a great deal and we now find ourselves dealing with a new way of...
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