Scot believes that spending time with horses should be fun and safe.  Yet, so often, we as horse owners struggle with behavioral issues, disagreeable attitudes, and unpleasant vices in our horses.  His methods strive to decrease frustration in both the animal and the owner/handler and make our horses and the time we spend with them enjoyable again.  His goal is to help his students develop a pleasant, safe, and rewarding relationship with their horses.

Scot’s training methods are grounded in helping us understand how horses learn and think so that we can better communicate with them.  He believes that, by truly comprehending how the horses see their world, and how they see humans fitting into it, we can optimize each and every interaction.  As we learn how to help the horse relax and trust in us, the horses will be happier, more willing, more cooperative - more of a partner and a participant in our enjoyment, rather than simply an avenue to our fun.

Scot’s clinics and lessons help owners focus on teaching us how to make the right thing easy and the wrong thing difficult when we work with our horses.  By thinking like the horse, and by being ever vigilant and aware of our own behaviors and what they communicate to our horses, we can all become effective partners and trainers.  And the skills and behaviors we can teach our horses as a result are limited only by our own imaginations. Scot has a unique respect for the horse - and for the unbounded potential in the human-horse relationship.  His philosophies and training methods are based on fundamental horse behavior - applicable to every horse in every situation. 

Scot’s “HorseThink” methods have proven to be effective for all types of horses and riders.  Age does not matter, either in the human or the horse.  Nor does the breeding, or the type of tack used, or the equine sport undertaken.  His students consistently find themselves enjoying a newfound closeness with their horses - happy and rewarding relationships that produce unbelievable results.  Their investment in their horses and in themselves yields amazingly rich and lasting benefits for both horse and owner.