Ashley Schafer demonstrates her approach to teaching transitions and keeping a horse responsive for the turns.
Ashley Schafer describes the benefit of wearing spurs and the importance of knowing when to use your legs versus when to use your spurs.
Ashley Schafer shows us how she wants her horses to pick up their leads in between the barrels and why it is important.
Ashley Schafer explains how starting your colts right and finding the right trainer to break them can make all the difference when starting horses on the barrel pattern.
Ashley Schafer shows you her four-corner drill that she does to keep all of her horses soft and responsive.
Ashley Schafer talks about how there is a lot to be learned from other disciplines and horsemen when training a top barrel horse.
Ashley Schafer explains how she develops softness in her horses.
Ashley Schafer on how she helps a horse that is stiffer on one side than the other.
Ashley Schafer explains how she approaches transitioning a barrel horse from futurity competition to rodeo competition and the fundamentals a horse needs to do so.
Ashley Schafer shares how she starts her barrel horses and the fundamentals she wants her colts to have before putting them on the pattern.