Victor Penner Natural Horsemanship
Clinics
Cowboy Trail Clinics are
all about advancing your foundation skills and then putting them in action, both on the ground and in the saddle. On Saturday we
usually start at 8:00am with visiting, coffee and some of Joy's homemade goodies. Around 9:00 to the arena on the
ground, to warm up and introduce our new skills. Then we add in obstacles and finish up with a rousing game of "HORSE"
to challenge your newfound skills. Time for lunch, watch the pictures and videos that Joy took and discuss
what we learned today.
On Sunday again at 8:00 for coffee, goodies and visiting about the days plans. 9:00 in
the arena for warm up then in the saddle to play with yesterdays skills in the saddle. Out to the obstacles and then
some strategies for getting and keeping your horses attention. We finish up our day with a group trail ride in the surrounding
desert. Back for lunch, pictures and video, and discussion of what we learned today.
Cow clinics These clinics will run basically
the same schedule as the cowboy trail clinics but with less ground time and more saddle time. In April we will start
by using your horse's natural curiosity to build his/her confidence in cows. May through July we will introduce the
games played in Ranch Horse Versitility.
Cost for the weekend clinics is $150.00 for Cowboy Trail clinics
, $250.00 for the Cow clinics. Auditing is $20.00.
Come spend a week immersing your
self in horsemanship. Spend
five days riding with me. Eating, sleeping, drinking and living Horsemanship. Then on the weekend participate
in a Natural Horsemanship Clinic. Cost $500.00 per person limited to three riders(groups by prior arrangement).
See the calender for availble dates.
Mounted
Shooting Workshops and Clinics are a great way to help your horse be
less reactive to loud sudden noises. This is particularly benificial for Cowboy Mounted Shooting, Television/Film Industry,
Law Enforcement, Parades... any horse can benefit by becoming calmer, smarter and braver out on the trail, at Fourth of July
or New Years
New Rider Workshop.
These class's last about two hours, and is scheduled in conjunction a California Desperado Practice. Topics include
Gun Safety and desensitizing horses to gun fire. Cost is $50.00 per rider (maximum fifteen).
Mounted Shooting Clinic
is designed for the horse and rider who still wants/needs more sensory training after the new
rider workshop. This would be great for law enforcement horses, television/film, or some one who wants to compete
in cowboy mounted shooting. With at least four sensory sessions over two days and course work in between the horses
are ready to shoot courses of fire by the end of day two. Cost is $300.00 per rider (maximum ten).
Intermidiate Mounted Shooting
Clinic. This is for the horse and rider who have accepted gun fire and are ready to improve their competition
skills(barrel turns, gates, marksmanship, course strategy). Cost $300.00 per rider (maximum five).
Training and Lessons
Training costs $800.00 per month. This includes $200.00 board and sessions five days a week. I find training to
be much more beneficial if the owner is involved(if you can come every day that would be fantastic). You are also invited
to participate in my monthly Natural Horsemanship Clinics at no additional charge as long as your horse is here in training.
Young horse education. I
don't generally start horses under three, but there is no reason that they can't learn their ground games, go out for
trail walks, be ponied, carry a light saddle, in hand trail obstacles... the more they are used to playing with and accepting
direction from their human, the smoother the transition to saddle work is.
Colt Starting usually takes about
three months(can be shorter with young horse education). The first month is spent on ground games and helping the
horse to accept the human as their leader and on their back. The second month the horses owner get much more involved
in the ground games, while I do more in the saddle and by the third month the owner should be doing the majority of the riding
with me as a coach. Of course this schedule varies horse to horse and owner to owner.
Other training topics can be discussed on an individual basis.
Lessons are $75.00 and are scheduled
for a few hours that way we're not trying to cram everything into one hour. If you purchase a package of ten lessons($750.00)you
will recieve two additional lessons free.
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