Ed's Background

Just to let you know a little of my background, I grew up on my Dad's horse farm where we raised and trained our own horses, taught riding lessons and boarded horses for other owners. My dad always had a gentle, natural way around horses and treated them well. He taught me, at an early age, how to ride with lightness and how to have the proper relationship of respect, trust and leadership with my horse.

As a teenager my brother and I spent countless hours on our horses exploring the countryside looking for challenging terrain for our horses. In high school and college I began traveling the rodeo circuit competing in bull riding until I got enough sense knocked into me to quit that crazy sport!

Throughout my adult life I've been blessed to have had a variety of experiences with riding and training horses. I have participated in Civil War reenactments with a cavalry company traveling around the country to put on battle reenactments and living history demonstrations. With horses I trained for movie work, I was cast in mounted action roles in seven motion pictures.

I operated a horseback vacation business taking guests on week long riding and camping trips in the Wyoming Rocky Mountains near Yellowstone. While living in Wyoming I had numerous opportunities to observe wild horses on the open plains. This gave me a much deeper understanding of their well developed social structure, instincts and communication.

I trained horses for several large ranches in Wyoming. On these ranches I had occasion to work with range raised colts, wild horses and problem horses. I did quite a bit of imprint training on new-born foals and weanling training. All my training was done with gentle communication and respect for the horse. My training techniques were somewhat unorthodox in the land of the "rough and tumble, old cowboy ways". Over time the results of my training techniques were evident in more dependable, calmer, smarter and braver horses.

In the spring of 2001 I moved to Georgia to escape the brutal Wyoming winters.

Since moving to Georgia I have enjoyed helping many horses and owners have a more safe and pleasant life together by establishing a relationship of mutual respect and trust through the use of gentle communication. I was honored to have been selected to teach the Horse Training course at the University of Georgia for the spring 2003 semester.

Twenty years ago I made a decision to trust in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Since then I have committed my life, my family and my business to His glory. God’s word has given me hope, guidance, and peace in my life.

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not unto your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path." Proverbs 3:5-6

-Ed Dabney