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Hear Your Horse: With Kristi Newman
Welcome to Hear Your Horse with Kristi Newman.
What if the partnership you have always wanted with your horse is closer than you think? What if the resistance, the inconsistency, and the feeling that something is just not quite clicking — is actually your horse trying to tell you something?
This podcast is for riders who are ready to listen. Each episode explores the principles behind the RITE System — a training approach that layers on top of whatever method you already use and adds the one thing most riders are missing. A clear, precise way to tell your horse they got it right.
When the communication is clear, everything changes. The resistance softens. The partnership deepens. The rides you always imagined become the rides you actually have.
You are in the right place. Welcome.
Start by finding out what type of horse communicator you are — take the free quiz at theritesystem.com.
Hear Your Horse: With Kristi Newman
Why Your Horse Is Not Being Difficult (And What to Do About It)
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
In this episode, Kristi Newman makes the case for the core belief of the RITE System: your horse is never wrong. They are always answering the question they heard — not the one you thought you asked.
Kristi introduces the Pay Raise Principle — using a tongue click as a marker in the exact moment the horse gets it right, followed by a high-value reward. She explains the clear difference between bribery (showing the treat to get behaviour) and precision reward delivery (marking the moment of correctness), and shares the story of a young dressage horse who learned flying lead changes in just two asks.
Listeners leave with one clear thing to try in their next session: pick one thing, get clear on what right looks like, and mark the moment it happens.
Take the quiz at theritesystem.com to find your horse’s communication breakdown.
