At Melody Acres we specialize in Reining Horses as well as Paints. Our passion and focus involves starting young futurity prospects or re-making seasoned veterans. We have produced several Champions in the Paint, Reining, Pinto, Arabian and Warm Bloods. Our methods are modern and therapeutic and involve means of communication that produces quick results without stress.

 

 

 

 

Our Training Centre is supervised on a 24 hr basis.

Our Training Programs are designed around the horse and rider to ensure both progress at the same rate. We welcome all disciplines into our program.

 

Training Philosophy or Methods are not easy to explain as they may vary from horse to horse. So, in a few paragraphs I will share with you a little of our program that works for us.

First I like the horse to be responsible for themselves, by teaching them to do what they are supposed to do on their own. Let them find out themselves, which means keeping as much of the horse's natural ability as possible, while molding them into a finished product. I try to keep the "man-made look" out, which in turn keeps a horse happy doing their job.

I have worked with several older horses that had previously been trained in a discipline they were not suited for. So, in these findings the individual was never going to get where they were supposed to or be responsible for themselves.

Also, because of the Therapeutic work I do, some of these horses were not in for Training but for Therapy. They have been so misunderstood and after a little while in my program, they sigh in relief, as if to say..."FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS ME!". They get to be the INDIVIDUAL they were meant to be, not made to be something they mentally or physically can not handle. Again, they get the chance to find themselves and want to work at it naturally. 

The key is to understand how a horse thinks and learns. the whole idea in this program is communication. The rest is knowing how to apply those skills in a language horses understand.