HORSE, FIRST - with Lockie Phillips

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In this episode of Horse First, Lockie Phillips is joined by horsewoman, educator, and movement specialist Jillian Kreinbring for a thoughtful conversation about the evolution of horsemanship.

Together, they explore the importance of discernment in an age of endless information, asking not whether tradition is right or wrong, but how we decide what is worth preserving and what deserves thoughtful revision.

Drawing on classical horsemanship, functional anatomy, modern science, and decades of practical experience, Jillian shares her perspective on the old masters, the lessons that continue to serve horses today, and the practices that may no longer withstand careful scrutiny.

Throughout the conversation, Lockie and Jillian compare their own approaches, highlighting the places where they overlap, where they differ, and why respectful disagreement is one of the healthiest forces driving horsemanship forward.

This is a conversation about curiosity over certainty, discernment over dogma, and the responsibility we all share to keep refining our craft in service of the horse.

Because good horsemanship isn't about preserving the past unchanged.

It's about carrying its wisdom forward with honesty, humility, and the courage to revise.
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A conversation about confidence, community, thoughtful training, and the next chapter of Emotional Horsemanship. From my first UK clinics to the launch of Homecoming 4.0, this episode explores why sequencing, training plans and purposeful practice are changing the way we develop horses—and ourselves.

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In this special episode of Horse First, Lockie Phillips reads a chapter from his forthcoming book exploring the origins of his professional objection to whips.

Part memoir, part reflection on horsemanship, this chapter traces the early experiences that shaped his understanding of fear, power, violence, and the complicated relationship many horse people have with training tools.

Far from being a discussion about equipment alone, this episode asks deeper questions about memory, conditioning, and the experiences that quietly shape our values long before we have language for them.

How do our earliest encounters with fear influence the horse people we become?

And what happens when we stop treating our reactions as weaknesses and start treating them as information?

A personal and vulnerable reading from a book still in progress.

Because sometimes understanding the horse begins with understanding ourselves.

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What kind of future are horse people building?

And perhaps more importantly, what kind of future are we failing to imagine?

In this episode of Horse First, Lockie Phillips sits down with horsewoman and thinker Kim Hallin for a conversation that moves far beyond training techniques and management systems.

Together they explore the uncomfortable reality that many horse owners have more faith in euthanasia than in society's ability to care for their horses after they're gone. From there, the conversation opens into larger questions about stewardship, extraction, community, and the place of horses in a rapidly changing world.

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What happens if the economic and cultural systems that currently support horse ownership begin to change? What responsibilities do horse people have to imagine alternatives? And what might horses themselves have to teach us about cooperation, leadership, resilience, and shared living?

This is not a conversation about answers.

It's a conversation about asking better questions.

Because if horse people cannot imagine a future worth leaving horses to, who will?
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When a horse develops a behavioural problem, most of us reach for training.

More lessons. More exercises. Better technique. A different method.

But what if the horse isn't expressing a training problem at all?

What if they're expressing a living problem?

In this episode of Horse First, Lockie Phillips explores one of the most overlooked realities in modern horsemanship: horses spend far more time living in their management systems than they do being trained within them.

From difficult-to-catch horses and separation anxiety to tension, explosiveness, and so-called laziness, Lockie examines how movement, forage, social contact, comfort, and predictability shape behaviour long before a trainer enters the picture.

This is not an argument against training.

It's an argument for looking at the whole horse.

Because before we ask how to change a behaviour, it may be worth asking what problem that behaviour is solving for the horse.

Sometimes the answer isn't a better technique.

Sometimes it's a better life.

And remarkably often, when the life improves, the behaviour follows.

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