Horseman’s Corner Radio

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On-The-Air since 1994, providing horsemanship tips from the greatest trainers and breeders in the world. 

  1. 1d ago

    Saddle Fit - Van Hargis

    Is the saddle an important piece of the equation when it comes to overall horsemanship, Van?   "Yes sir, what I'm looking for in a saddle of course, you hit the nail right on the head and I want to find a top quality saddle made by a very reputable and very top quality saddle manufacturer. And the reason why is that they're generally going to work a little bit harder with the saddle tree manufacturers to make sure that all points of that saddle to be even. In other words, it's like everything else and you've got to start with a great foundation. That saddle tree is the absolute most important thing there. After that we want to make sure we're using top quality materials. The best leather possible, those are things I look for. But really what I'm looking for outside of those things, I'm looking for something that fits my task. I really have to ask myself, what am I going to be doing in my horse the most? If all I do is race, barrels and the barrel racer, then by God it might just pay for me to go find me a barrel race in the saddle as opposed to a cut and saddle. So I want to match the saddle to the task that suits my need."

    2 min

  2. 2d ago

    Saddle Fit - Becky Amio

    Here's horse trainer Becky Amio on saddle fit.   "What I was finding is I was struggling with saddle fit, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I was having a hard time with saddles going up Colt's neck, and I was also having a problem with side-to-side slip, and then I was having a problem with the seat itself on the saddle that I had been using for many years was putting me in a position that was too wide, so the access point where I could get a good hold with my legs around the barrel of the horse, it wasn't conducive to be able to support myself and support the horse. I called several different saddle makers, and a lot of them honestly didn't give me good answers or didn't want to answer my questions, and I ended up finding a saddle pad designer that helped answer my questions discussing saddle fit, because she showed me how to shim the saddle or the saddle pad to fit the saddle properly."   "From there, she directed me to a man named Mark Jones out of Georgia, and Mark was the first person to listen to me when I discussed all of the problems that I was having. I would say 98% of the saddle manufacturers out there, their general average bar spread is 13 1⁄2 inches, and that is too wide for these young Colts. That's why I was having a problem going up their neck like I was."   More from Becky Amio on our longer version of the Horseman's Corner Extended Podcast, all on horsemanscorner.com.

    2 min

  3. 3d ago

    Saddle Fit - Sharon Camarillo

    California horsewoman and barrel racing clinician Sharon Camarillo has designed a lot of saddles for years for the barrel racing industry.   What goes into designing a good barrel racing saddle?    "I never believe in just a saddle for barrel racing, even though, you know, we need a lighter weight saddle, but we still need a saddle that's a good tool that gives us good balance because barrel racing, as we know, is a high rate of speed event with three change of turns, and I'd like to ride two hands on my reins up into those turns and go to the horn on the back side. I want my feet underneath me, don't particularly like a real free swinging stirrup. I want my saddle, like I said, to be a tool to keep my feet underneath my pelvis so I can maintain balance, whether it's in a straight line approach or in the collection and position for the turn."   "Probably most important is that the saddle does that, I like a straighter swell so I don't get too far forward, and the cannel in today's world is a pretty stock four-inch cannel that helps you stay up when you leave those barrels, keeps your pelvis over that center of gravity, but that saddle's got to fit those horses."    California horsewoman Sharon Camarillo.

    2 min

  4. 4d ago

    Saddle Fit - JD Wing

    Howard asked J.D. Wing in an interview years ago whether or not it was important to think about your horse's comfort when selecting your equipment.   "Absolutely."   "I was guilty of it as anyone when I was younger and didn't have a whole lot of money, and never really worried about how my saddle fit my horse or anything like that. And then I had all these issues coming up. My horse would quit stopping."   "My horse would get hot in the box. My horse would duck in the arena. And once I started really spending time to learn about what a proper fitting saddle was, what the correct bridle was, how to properly adjust my tie down, that fixed a lot of the problems I was having in horses."   "It wasn't a training issue, it was a comfort issue. How many times do we go to a U.S. roping and put $2,500 up in fees, and our horse ducks or breaks a barrier or gets mad and puts us in a bad situation where we don't have a chance to win? We're just throwing money out the door, going to a roping with an ill-fitting saddle. You invest that money into a good saddle or into a good bridle, and now you're investing in your future."   "When we have a chance to run at a quarter million dollars at Vegas, to me that's a good investment."    Horse trainer, J.D. Wing, in an interview with the late Howard Hale.    That's going to do it for today's Horseman's Corner.

    2 min

  5. 5d ago

    Saddle Fit - Jeff Gollehon

    Jeff Gollehon is with us. He has Grizzly Saddlery at Great Falls, Montana. It's a full service shop, but they also make custom saddles, and he finds a problem with saddle fit that's a little bit different and kind of interesting.   "One of the things that is, to me, that I have found over my career that is probably one of the most important things, the stirp slot on the tree, on the underside of the tree where your stirp leather goes up over the tree and back down, and that's the part that has the holes in it for your stirp leather adjustment, that piece of leather has to go up over the top of the tree and back down, and it sits under the tree between your sheepskin and the wooden tree. And that's actually what holds the weight of the person when that person is riding. And what we are seeing in a lot of trees, whether they're factory-made companies that we carry in the store, or even some of the custom trees that we see come through, that bar slot that has to be relieved for that stirp leather, from my experience, is usually not deep enough."

    2 min

  6. May 21

    Timing - Vaughn Knudsen

    Join co-host Nelseena Lehmann as she asks our guest, Vaughn Knudsen about the keys to great horsemanship.

    2 min

  7. May 20

    Riding with Equal Pressure

    On this interview, the late Howard Hale had Ron Knodle, the unknown horseman, talking about his training methods. Let's check in on that conversation. Nebraska horseman Ron Knodle is our guest today.   Ron, give us some of your thoughts about how you ought to use your hands and your legs, particularly on that young horse that you're starting. The two-handed stuff, whether you're in a hackamore or a snaffle, the more that you keep pulling on one rein, the more that they fall to the outside, and you're not going to be able to, for example, make a reining horse when you need to push him through the turns. So one of the things that I've been doing really strong with most of my people that I've been working with in the later years is using almost equal pressure with your inside and outside rein and do more trying to push the horse through the turns than to pull him through the turns so that he was not as apt to fall out to the outside.   And what are your legs doing in that situation? I ride my horse as one-legged. For example, when I start a young horse, I open and close doors as a pre-signal. So if I'm riding a young horse along and I want to go to the ride, the first thing I do is my right leg comes off, the left leg comes on.   The right hand and the right leg work in unison. They come off of the horse and the left leg would come on if I was going to the right and vice versa. Trainer and clinician Ron Knodle with the late Howard Hale.

    2 min

  8. May 19

    When To Release Pressure

    The timing of the release is everything.

    2 min
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