Lauren has been teaching and training for more than 30 years. With her strong background in hunter/jumper and dressage with trainers of Grand Prix caliber and three years on a working cattle ranch in the mountains of Arizona, she can help you with all your horsemanship and riding needs.

Lauren's unique approach has developed through years of research and personal experience. She has a gift for connecting with horses, and they respond to her immediately. She works with all breeds and disciplines – from Arabs to gaited horses, competitive trail riders to barrel racers, TB's, hunters, dressage, throw in Quarter horses, Morgans, Mustangs and everything in between. Whatever you have or want, she can and will be able to help you make huge strides toward your goals.

Learn what you need to know to do what you want to do with your horse. And be assured that you will be able to apply what you learn. Lauren's goal is to empower YOU to enjoy your horse MORE!

PEQUEÑITA (PEKA)

"Would you take that one with you, too?", the owner asked me.

I made a face. I was there to see about a throw away (by them) horse for my daughter (Gryffindor is on the cover of my book with her). "No." I said. "That's like a large Great Dane. I don't have any use for a tiny Arab pony." But, the little bay horse whispered,  "I'll be your best horse ever." Believe me, I throw that up in her face every once in a while when she gets a hair up her butt and she's not being my best horse ever. She weighs about 200 pounds more than she did then. And with only about 175 rides in her, she's a phenomenal horse.

She's perfectly behaved galloping in the mountains bridle-less with just a string around her neck that I don't have to use. She's so smooth in her gaits. She jumps like a bird completely quiet and composed and we've started working on piaffe. I can put someone who's never been on a horse before on her with a halter and take them for a ride in the desert or mountains. She's also the one I'm on laying backward reading a book and in the un-spooky horse blog post. As to the reading picture, she had never been in the backyard, I had never laid backward on her. She didn't even have so much as a string around her neck for that photo shoot.

Very smart, but that's an Arab for ya. Tell her what you want and be clear about it and she'll give it her best try.

I'll keep adding blog posts featuring her and stories of old as we go.

BLACK DIAMOND

This girl is the most dangerous horse I've ever been around in my life.

considering how she is now... what did "they" do to her to make her so dangerous? And by dangerous, I mean: She allowed no one near her. Within range for her was anywhere she could reach or get to. She'd charge you, even lunging over the fence. Just hope you get through it and far enough away to live. She struck, but and kicked. Broke bones in several trainers bodies before coming to me at the ripe old age of three.

I was her last stop before the Alpo can. The trainers who owned her could not get within thirty feet of a fence without her trying to attack them. They had purchased her as a one-year-old at the World sale in OK and when the breeder went into the stall, she sent him flying and broke some parts. The trainer/owner had gotten on her, but she launched him and then like a bull, turned and attacked breaking his collar bone. She had to be removed from the stable where they trained because no one could even clean the stall. They sent her to a trainer whose business card USED to read "Problem horses a specialty". She launched him and attacked again with the same result. he told them to come get her, she was hopeless. They turned her out in a 100 acre pasture for six months hoping she'd settle down, but the other people who had horses in the pasture couldn't get their horses because she'd attack them.

Temporarily contained in a round pen of a mutual acquintance of mine and the owners while they tried to figure out what to do with her, they had the vet out to draw blood to check for hormone problems. If anyone even place a hand onher she'd squeal and kick and squirt pee. While in the stock for the vet to draw the blood, she managed to kick him and break his arm. Blood tests were negative.

The mutual acquintance said if they wanted to give her one more shot befoer they took her to the killers, she needed to go to Lauren's. (I keep a low profile. They didn't know me.) They said drug her, throw her in the trailer and get her over there.

AZABACHE (BACHE)

She was ten years old and had been kept in a pen for so long her legs hardly held up and sometimes didn't while she scrambled to bolt away.

A jet black Morgan, stunningly beautiful with black eyes, flowing mane and tail and crooked hind legs and strangely shaped hind hooves. Talk about spooky - I ducked between the rails of the pen she was in and she tried to jump out the back side. The guy who 'trained' her, well, he thinks standing in a round pen while she frantically runs so out of control that she's at a 45 degree angle with the footing flinging hither and thither 30 feet out. She was in a total lather and had to be blocked to stop. Her eyes were white with terror. He, meanwhile, stood there in the 'position' with his arm cocked leaning on his stick while she lost her mind. Then, he saddled her up and got on and kinda rode her. Meaning he stayed on at a very tense walk and trot with reins only a few inces long and couldn't get her any where near the rail or canter. A year later, after standing in that same pen the whole time, I brought her home amd turned her out with my herd. BTW she couldn't be caught.

What a lover puss. While she will come, she still has a thought that if you have a rope it may not go well for her. I've only been on her a handful of times and that bareback with a halter, but she's doing very well. Updates as I get around to them.