 A couple of years back, Shane and I were out trail-riding a couple of colts
that we’d just freshly started, giving them trail time and generally enjoying the scenery.
We love to get the youngsters out and about as soon as possible, usually on their 3rd or 4th
ride, to explore the greater environment, move some cows around and generally expand their
confidence and acceptance of their new rider.
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 A few years back I was doing a couple of clinics in England, one of which was
at a livery yard where all the clinic participants either kept their horses, or leased one
of the horses owned by the yard itself. One of these horses was a little bay mare called
Willow.
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 I’d like to share with you a story about a little stallion called Marlin. Well ... that’s
not actually his name ... we called him that because when he first came to us, Shane put a
rope on him and he leapt around on the end of that rope like those huge fish you see on TV
leaping out of the sea. He had not had a lot of handling and we soon found out just how
little he’d had and what his experiences had been.
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 This week's extract from the Horseman’s Diary is a little different ... rather
than just a horse training story with a happy ending, I’d like to share with everyone the
first few weeks of Dirk’s stay here with us at QSSC.
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 Many years ago I had the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson in the
importance of ‘comfort’ to a horse. These days, many of us have heard of the principle of
‘comfort and discomfort’ when communicating with horses, however there is a still a major
focus on using discomfort to show a horse what we don’t want, or in other words to tell a
horse what to do, rather than understanding the value of having a horse going ‘to comfort’.
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