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Hal Coker

For the last sixteen years Hal Coker has dedicated his life to learning from Buck Brannaman about how compassionately and effectively work with horses. A former professional farrier Hal is dedicated to starting colts and re-starting the older horses. He's a passionate horseman who defines success as doing exactly what you want everyday. His articles illustrate that success is an attitude.

"You need purpose, direction and focus to succeed whether you work with man or beast."

Visit Hal online at: http://www.HalCoker.com.

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When I started my journey to become a Horseman, I had what I thought was a very clear picture of what that meant. As I gained experience I realized my picture was very basic and needed to be refined. That basic picture, however, gave me the purpose and direction I needed to get started.


“Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are.”
  ~Old English saying

Have you ever had the feeling that what you were doing just wasn’t working? That's the feeling I had as I sat in the middle of the arena on Zane, the horse I was working. We just missed getting in a wreck and both of us were covered in sweat. My knee was throbbing from being run into one of the metal panels that make up the arena fence. I was getting frustrated. My progress with Zane wasn’t going the way I thought it should. Every time things started going well they would all seem to fall apart.

 

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