Welcome to raylacroix.com and the ACCEL® Horsemanship training system.

If you are an amateur and ride horses for pleasure or competition and your horse is hard to control, has a 'heavy' or one sided mouth, has poor transitions, or lacks the 'finish' that you've always wanted …. Read on!

If you are already a professional horse trainer and would like to take your training skills up to the 'next level'…..Read on!

My name is Ray LaCroix and I would like to personally welcome you to a decidedly different world of horse training."

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Ray LaCroix is a horseman who has had 25 years experience and show ring success in getting horses to willingly, and predictably perform to their best abilities, winning over 200 National Championships in every major discipline along the way. While almost any horse of any breed will happily perform beautiful, collected movements at play, Ray has built his career on training horses to transfer this joyous spirit to their performance in the show ring- not for just a few strides, but for an entire event, time after time for both professional and amateur riders.

In 1991, Ray became interested in accelerated learning techniques in order to speed up the "learning curve" for his amateur riders. After taking two years of advanced communication courses from the country's top sports psychologists, not only did Ray dramatically change his style of teaching, he began to apply the principles of accelerated learning models to horsemanship techniques as well. The results of these efforts have been much more far-reaching than even Ray had imagined; the results being the creation of the ACCEL® Horsemanship Seminar Series designed to benefit all horse people who desire to learn, and accomplish more with their horses.

Today, Ray LaCroix is making his twenty-five-year-long learning curve available to other riders who want to avoid years of trial and error, and move directly into effective, successful communication with their horses. ACCEL®'s goal of giving each rider the knowledge to be responsible for his or her own ride has enabled many ACCEL® graduates to compete successfully without a professional trainer.

Whatever your goal in the world of pleasure horses, show horses and competition, Ray is available to help on a one-on-one basis through personalized consultations. Horses and riders trained by Ray can account for over 200 National Champion and Reserve Champion wins, and literally hundreds of National Top Tens. Of Ray's amateur clients, over 50% won either National Champion or Reserve National Champion titles.

If you are an amateur rider, a trainer, or need assistance with breeding decisions, marketing or promotion, Ray has the experience and credentials to help you accomplish your goals.

• Individual coaching
• Trainer consultation
• Locating the right show horse
• Herd evaluation
• Marketing
• Stallion promotion

You can also get help by reading the Training Tips column. Solutions to common training problems are found here, and you never know when your horse's special quirk may be discussed in detail. Check back often, print out the tips and circulate them among your friends. Or, check out articles written by Ray LaCroix published in major publications on training, rider psychology, judging trends, and other topics important to the horse industry. We'll also publish information about events in the horse world you might find interesting, educational, or just great travel destinations.

To a large extent, our enjoyment of horse sports depends on finding the right horse. The right horse for you needs to be a horse that is first of all sound, and secondly built to do the job you plan to ask of him. Thirdly, he needs to have the mentality to be a good partner. Sound like a tall order?

Ray LaCroix numbers among his clients many of America's top breeding farms and show horse barns, and has the opportunity to evaluate horses long before they come on the general market. He's also worked with many of the top seasoned show horses in the US. In the near future, Ray plans to publish a photo directory of quality show, breeding and pleasure horses available for sale, updated monthly. Only good, honest horses will be listed, and only after Ray has evaluated them personally to make sure they are as represented. Ray will also work with individuals to find a that special horse.

Just click on the topics listed at left for more information. Seminar Schedule / Signup will tell you where Ray will be teaching for the next few months. If you need to schedule individual consultation or commission a horse search, you can contact Ray via e-mail at ray@raylacroix.com

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