2Rein Horsemanship

2Rein Horsemanship Californio Horsemanship | Where Tradition Runs Deep and Standards Stay High

Teaching in:
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📍Argentina
📍Belgium
📍Canada
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The next step in our interns' training has begun: pushing cattle on young horses and putting the first rides on c**ts, b...
13/06/2026

The next step in our interns' training has begun: pushing cattle on young horses and putting the first rides on c**ts, building confidence and experience for both horse and rider

Courtney getting to touch one of the wild horses. If that wouldn’t put a smile on anyone’s face I don’t know what would ...
10/06/2026

Courtney getting to touch one of the wild horses. If that wouldn’t put a smile on anyone’s face I don’t know what would 💚

Lilly's feel and timing are improving every single day and she got to put a first ride on her mustang c**t this week
07/06/2026

Lilly's feel and timing are improving every single day and she got to put a first ride on her mustang c**t this week

Seek to be worth knowing Rather than well known
10/05/2026

Seek to be worth knowing
Rather than well known

𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐘𝐎𝐔There’s been a lot of new faces here lately, so it felt like a good time to slow down for a second and say welc...
09/05/2026

𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐘𝐎𝐔

There’s been a lot of new faces here lately, so it felt like a good time to slow down for a second and say welcome, and THANK YOU.

Some of you have followed this page since the very beginning. Back when it was just a handful of posts, rough ideas, long days, and a deep belief that horsemanship still matters when it’s built on feel, timing, stockmanship, and honesty.

2Rein was never meant to be about chasing trends or putting on a polished performance for the internet. It’s always been about the real thing:
good horses,
good stockmanship,
hard miles,
mistakes learned from,
and trying every day to become better for the horse.

To the people who have supported quietly from the beginning — thank you. Truly.

And to the new folks finding us recently: we’re glad you’re here.

There’s a lot more coming.
Wild horses.
Colts.
Cattle work.
Pack trips.
Long thoughts around horsemanship.
The ugly parts, the beautiful parts, and all the in-between.

We’re just getting started.

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Photo of Kutsah, one of our personal c**ts in the beginnings of learning how to load up in a stock rack of a truck

A reminder that horses are made outside, through real work.Yes, a safe and controlled environment matters. The arena is ...
07/05/2026

A reminder that horses are made outside, through real work.
Yes, a safe and controlled environment matters. The arena is where a horse learns to move correctly, track a cow, and heel a calf. But none of that training means much if the horse falls apart the moment it leaves the fence and faces the real world.
How many “well-trained” arena horses become liabilities outside because they cannot handle a barking dog, a tarp, or any unfamiliar situation? Then comes the endless list of excuses: it is too windy, too rainy, the bugs are out...
Don't get me wrong, I have a deep respect for classical dressage. But dressage becomes an empty exercise when it never leaves the arena.
Nothing replaces long days in rough country. Crossing rivers, scree, and heavy timber. Feeling a calf bawling and fighting on the end of a rope. Dogs barking while you tie a runaway cow to a tree. That is where a horse learns to think, adapt, and become dependable.
An outdoor horse without refinement is just a desensitized trail horse with little education. On the other hand a dressage horse that never applies its training to real work becomes little more than a sheltered sports tool.
The two should go hand in hand. They were never meant to be separated.

𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐒 — 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓We’re considering putting together a few horsemanship clinics in the area ...
06/05/2026

𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐒 — 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓

We’re considering putting together a few horsemanship clinics in the area and wanted to see who might be interested.

Our focus is practical, ranch-based horsemanship: building horses that are usable, thoughtful, and reliable outside of an arena. Our work aligns with Californio Horsemanship.

Clinics we’re looking at offering:

• Ranch roping (big loop, practical application)

• Cattle work (reading cattle, positioning, timing)

• Riding horsemanship (shaping a solid working horse, problem solving)

• Groundwork (can be combined into any of the above)

This isn’t about perfect circles or over-polished horses that can perfect a handful of motions. It’s about feel, timing, and building something that holds up in real situations. Between the two of us, our background is rooted in starting young horses, working with untouched/wild horses, and developing practical ranch horses with a strong foundation and quiet mind. A background in classical horsemanship and years of specializing in "problem horses" has shaped our work.

If this is something you’d be interested in attending — or hosting — comment below or send a message. We’ll build the clinics based on interest.

— Ashley & Arthur

2Rein Horsemanship

𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬One of the harder truths I’ve learned over the years:I would much rather start a 7 year old, wild, untouch...
29/04/2026

𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬

One of the harder truths I’ve learned over the years:

I would much rather start a 7 year old, wild, untouched mustang or a well-bred horse with zero handling than take on a horse that has been “rescued and loved on” without structure.

That surprises people.
It sounds backwards.
But here’s why.

The most dangerous horses are often not the ones that have had a hard life. The reality is that the dangerous ones are the ones that have never had a hard day.

They’ve been scratched, hand-fed treats, allowed in our space, and never told “no.” It feels like kindness in the moment. It feels like love. But love without boundaries is not preparation… it’s indulgence. And indulgence creates insecurity.

We see this in dogs all the time: “killing them with love” by overfeeding and over-coddling until they’re unhealthy and unbalanced. We see it in children when they’re protected from every challenge, only to be overwhelmed when the real world finally asks something of them.

Horses are no different.

A horse that has never been asked to yield, to wait, to search for the right answer, or to handle pressure in a fair way doesn’t learn confidence. They learn that the world revolves around their comfort. So when training finally begins and someone says, “No, that’s not okay,” their world falls apart.

That’s when you see the rearing.
The bolting.
The pushing into people.
The emotional blowups.

It’s not because they’re bad.
It’s because they were never shown how to cope.

Good horsemanship isn’t about being harsh.
It’s about being clear.
It’s about preparing them for reality in small, fair doses so reality never has to hit them all at once.

Real love builds a horse that can handle life.
Not one that has to be protected from it.

Underdogs with HorsesWe weren’t born into it.No horse folks. No family ranch.No string of horses waiting in the pasture....
06/01/2026

Underdogs with Horses

We weren’t born into it.
No horse folks.
No family ranch.
No string of horses waiting in the pasture.
Just two kids from places where horses weren’t part of daily life, and yet — somehow — we both chose them.

And that choice carried us farther than we ever imagined.

The American West — Arizona, Wyoming, Montana — deep in wild areas and waking up to grizzlies in camp. Running into them out on the rocky cliffs where it’s too close for comfort and not safe to flee if they charge. Work so tough that sore muscles and rope burn became a norm on the pain scale.

The Canadian prairies, endless stretches of grass and sky, (and slews) where wolves and elk shadowed our rides, and black bears and coyotes were as common as fence posts. A constant fight of coyotes taking calves. You started dreaming of waspy cows coming at you it happened so often. Calves bawling as you tagged and vaccinated.

The wild pampas of the Argentina campo, where the sun baked the land so fiercely that we crawled into rock crevices just to steal a moment of shade. Horses nearby, tying was just placing the rope under a rock. Sweat running off both man and beast alike.

We saw smugglers take horses across the Peruvian border, and we bathed in glacial streams so cold they stole the breath straight from your lungs. Our lips so chapped they bled. The skin of our hands cracked. A day didn’t go by where breakfast lunch and dinner wasn’t an offering of goat meat and days old bread.

We lived out of the saddle and bedroll, day after day, until the horse was no longer “a job” or “a hobby.”

The horse became life itself.

It’s not glamorous. It’s not easy. But it’s real.
And it’s the life we chose — from nothing, from nowhere, from being the underdogs who simply couldn’t turn away from the call of the horse.
- Ashley Willmarth

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