Lucky Penny Tack Endorsements and Links
Lucky Penny Horsemanship Products are Used, Endorsed and Distributed by the following trainers.
Julie Goodnight
http://www.JulieGoodnight.com
Julie Goodnight is a full-time equine professional with more than a quarter-century of experience. Her varied background ranges from dressage and jumping to racing, reining, colt-starting, and wilderness riding. Julie is known for her upbeat and logical style of teaching, and for her ability to bridge natural ho rsemanship techniques with the principles of classical riding. Julie's extensive experience training horses and riders has earned her the moniker, “Communicating Clearly with Horses and Riders.” She travels coast-to-coast and beyond much of the year to horse expos, conferences and clinics to teach horses and people about each other. Her training and teaching techniques are frequent features of Western Horseman, Equus , Certified Horsemanship Association's The Instructor and many other excellent equine publications and websites.
Julie Goodnight is also the Program Director for Certified Horsemanship Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the safety and quality of riding programs. CHA offers instructor, trail guide, facility manager, and other certifications as well as facility accreditation and a wealth of resources for horse professionals. Julie Goodnight resides near Salida, Colorado, at her private horse ranch with her husband, Rich Moo rhead, the CEO of Monarch Ski and Snowboard Area.
Alice Trindle
http://www.tnthorsemanship.com
T & T Horsemanship is dedicated to the belief that the development of true horsemanship requires dedication of time and understanding to fully comprehend what the horse has to offer humans. That horsemanship is an art form, and should not be limited to specific disciplines, but rather the development of a willing partnership between the horse and it’s human. Then, the possibilities are endless!
Steve Edwards
http://www.muleranch.com
Steve Edwards and his wife, Susan, live on the Queen Valley Mule Ranch, in Queen Valley, AZ. where they offer clinics on understanding and training mules, horses and their owners. They focus on partnership with the mule, teaching how to drive wagons, pack mules and trail ride. Steve trains both mules and donkeys and educates humans through clinics, apprenticeships and individualized programs. He has also created a series of instructional videos that teach various mule care, handling and training topics. Steve has designed, developed and sells his own line of mule-friendly saddles and tack created with you and yo ur mule's comfort and safety in mind. He offers all the basic equipment used on mules for riding, packing and driving at various levels of training.
Steve has been a featured writer for numerous magazines including Western Mule, Mules and More, Rocky Mountain Rider, Trail Rider, and Bridle and Bit Newspaper. Steve has been featured in Western Horseman. He has also been instrumental in establishing the first Mule Training Apprenticeship Program in the newly expanded equine program at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California. In 1998 Steve began a project of training twelve mules for a riding and driving program at the Phoenix Zoo. He also trained zoo workers to present informational programs on mules, their history and their abilities.
Tom Curtain
http://www.tomcurtin.net
Tom Curtin grew up in the Big Sky State of Montana where his father had an outfitting and packing business. Tom was extremely fortunate to be around and work for some of the most famous ranches of the west; among them being The King Ranch, The Four 6's , Johnson Ranch and the 7D Ranch. Along with beneficial settings for horse training, Tom also had the chance to learn from many inspirational men in the horse world. Buster Welch, for example, had a significant influence on how Tom now views and trains the horse. Ray Hunt and his wife, Carolyn, also played an active role in the formation of Tom's horsemanship. Ray showed Tom how to look at things from the horse's point of view, an invaluable aspect of horse training that Tom still honors today. Along the way, however, a constant figure in Tom's life was his father who remains today an exceptional horseman and an accomplished teamster.
Jon Ensign
http://www.jonensign.com
Montana horseman Jon Ensign offers clinics all over the world to riders who want establish a connection and partnership with their horses without using force. With gentle patience, skill and more than 30 years experience, Jon trains riders to build a working relationship with their horses which comes from a deep understanding of equine thinking, instincts and behavior.
In decades of riding, rodeo, and breaking ranch and cow horses, Jon sensed there was “something better” to be learned about breaking colts and uniting horse and rider as a mutually beneficial team. Studying under Buck Brannaman and other notable horsemen, Jon developed a method of teaching that has helped thousands of riders improve their skills and sportsmanship.
Jon’s clients include riders committed to fine-tuning their horsemanship and those ready to give up on their horses and hang up their reins. Dr. Robert Miller commends Jon Ensign for having “The focus, the patience, the softness, the experience, and the empathy necessary for the optimum communication with the horse.”
. Dr. Robert Miller commends Jon Ensign for having “The focus, the patience, the softness,
Pat Hooks
http;//www.hookshorseranch.com
Pat Hooks still day-works as an American cowboy. Along with his wife Terri and son Zach, they own and work a ranch in Texhoma, Oklahoma, located in the North West panhandle of Oklahoma and Texas. There Pat teaches an apprenticeship program, raises, trains and sells their private stock of working ranch horses border collies, and black angus cattle.
Hooks' knowledge trickles down from the legacy of legendary horsemen, Bill and Tom Dorrance, and Ed Connell. Pat has been teaching colt breaking clinics since the 80s. He has given clinics at national horse expos, private ranches, universities and colleges. Pat has taught courses for 4-H, college, adult education, and prison reform.
Pat has written how-to articles for various equine newspapers and magazines for the past 20 years and presently is a columnist for AQHA's America's Horse Magazine, and High Plains Journal and Farm Talk. He has been a guest on RFDTV, Horsecity.com, and is participating on the new Equine web-cast site Nickernetwork. Pat Hooks is also the Author of Fix It Up For the Horse and 101 Ranch Horse Tips.
You may contact Pat through his email pathooks@ptsi.net. If you wish to write, the address is RR 1 Box 10 E Texhoma, Ok. 73949.
Paul Dietz
http://www.pauldietzhorsemanship.com
Paul Dietz is a humble horseman and not "just another" horseman/clinician. Paul's knowledge of horses is exceptional and he is gifted with communication and teaching skills reaching far beyond the average and into the handful of "top professional" horsemen today. He has figured out what he does best and is doing it: teaching people on a very personal level about the incredible journey that can lead to a oneness between horse and rider; developing an effortless, soft connection, the thoughts of the horse and rider becoming one and ultimately leading to directing the horses feet. Paul is in touch with the internal, invisible intent a true horseman must have which initiates the connection between horse and human before any external moves are evident.
Paul is based in Phoenix, AZ, but offers large and small clinics from coast to coast as well as demonstrations. His clinics are geared toward the ability and interests of the participants. He doesn't have a preference about whether the participants use English or Western saddles or what discipline they prefer. There isn't a discipline that doesn't involve moving the horses' feet. Paul directs the learning process creating the environment for understanding the importance of that control and how to achieve it effortlessly. Only with that control can we hope to hold the key to timing, placement and direction essential for the job at hand.
Patrick King
http://www.PKHorsemanship.com
Patrick King has been a student of the horse for as long as he can remember – growing up riding and competing with many breeds of horses in various disciplines, from jumping to driving to western pleasure. He has been fortunate enough to make friends and spend time with some of the industry’s top horsemen, including the master of communication, Ray Hunt. Sharing the knowledge that he has gained along the way, and continues to gain, is Patrick’s number one passion.
Patrick has the pleasure each year of working with a large number of incredibly varied horses. In any given month, he may have ranch horses, gaited horses, draft horses, racehorses, mules, and warmbloods all in the same barn to start under saddle, polish for performance, or solve specific troubles. He may climb off of a dressage horse to climb onto a roping horse, or a reining horse or jumper, and eventually finish the day out on a backyard trail horse. To Patrick, they are all great horses and his goal is to help develop them into the best they can be. They are all ridden like champions, whether they will ever enter a competition arena or not.
Throughout the year, Patrick travels with his wife, Nicole, helping people and their horses through his horsemanship clinics, seminars, and demonstrations. His clinics are attended by riders of varying levels, from backyard 4-H riders to Olympic-level Dressage riders. What he teaches is not so much an exercise or drill, as so many other clinicians and trainers teach, but a feel. It’s a feel that becomes a connection and a synchronicity of two minds and two bodies, the horse and the human.
Mike and Deannie Hosker - Information coming soon!
Barb Apple - Information coming soon!
Gary Biggerstaff - Information coming soon!
Raye Lochert - Information coming soon!