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**Please when you are asking questions include: your horse handling experience, your horse's training level, horse's age, horse's breed and horse's enviroment.** I am able to answer questions that are related to the following subjects: • Difficult or behavior problems • Fitting and preparing halter horses • Dressing properly for horse shows (AQHA, APHA, 4H) • Grooming, clipping and horse appearance for horse shows • Rodeo queen pageants • Ground work and lunging • Fear in both riders and horses • Western pleasure and English pleasure • Trailer loading. ---- My methods and advice are my opinions and may differ from others. I am human and make mistakes but I try my hardest to answer with honesty from what I know and I am trying to help the best way I can.

Experience in the area

I specialize in ground work and halter training from initial halter breaking, fitting and the finished horse. I also ride in western and english classes and can answer english and western questions. I am able to help people with riding lessons, horse troubles and showing. I also help children in 4H.

Organizations

I belong to AQHA, APHA, PtHA

Education/Credentials

I have owned, bred, shown and trained quality Quarter and Paint horses for 15 plus years. I have been successful in halter, showmanship, western pleasure, horsemanship, hunter under saddle, English equitation, trail, reining and rodeo queen pageants. I have shown AQHA and APHA for 15 years.

Awards and Honors

I have Superiors, Register of Merits, Grands and Reserves in AQHA and APHA.

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Sarah09/07/11101010Thank you tons! I'm gonna go work .....
caine05/10/11101010 
Linda05/09/11101010Thank you Sunny - very, very helpful! .....
Cindy02/22/11101010Very quick,detailed and easly understood response .....
Linda12/28/10101010Thank you so much, you were a .....

Recent Answers from Sunny

2011-09-03 Pony Training:

Hello and thanks again for your questions. Everything takes time and practice. You need to take Toughy out in the area that he will be ridden and start to "work" him in that area so he knows that that

2011-05-09 quiet and friendly horses respond to rider quickly:

Hello and thank you for your question. With every horse being an individual its hard to say that quiet and good horses respond to every rider well. A horse maybe a well natured horse but if the rider isn't

2011-05-04 Fixing problem:

Hello and thank you for your question.     There are a few things that could or are going on with you two. As an older horse I would like to see him have a physical. Sometimes they can have pain or stiffness

2010-12-28 I bounce when I ride:

Hello and thank you for your question. To be honest with you I myself am not a petit woman to say the least. There are a couple things that I can suggest to help you. First the horse you are riding. There

2010-11-11 24 yr old horse:

Hello and thank you for your question. I would recommend getting a vet to give him an exam just a check over to see how everything is. If the horse is well and sound enough for light riding and a light

 

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