Positive Reinforcement
Specialist Horse Trainer
THE EOHIPPUS ONLINE COACHING PROGRAMME
Create a Brave, Calm, Confident Horse — Without Fear, Force, or Flooding
If you've ever looked at your horse and thought, "I love you — but sometimes I just don't understand you," you're already in the right place.
Perhaps your horse walks happily into his stable every single day, but loading on the horsebox sends him into a spin. Perhaps he's become tense, nappy, or spooky. Perhaps you're starting a youngster and want to get it right from the very beginning. Perhaps you've simply hit a wall and aren't sure which way to turn.
Whatever the challenge — from undesirable behaviour to confidence issues, from loading problems to young horse starts — EOHIPPUS is where you’ll find the key to confidence and change.
EOHIPPUS is Connie Colfox's signature online coaching programme: a twelve-week immersive journey into horse-centred, positive reinforcement training that transforms not just how you train, but how you and your horse understand one another.
This isn't about fixing your horse. It's about understanding them — and building the kind of mutual trust that lasts a lifetime.
12 weeks of live, expert-led coaching with Connie Colfox ·
Next course: April 2026
ENQUIRE ABOUT THE APRIL COHORT NOW
Does any of this sound familiar?
"Why will you walk into your stable but not onto a horsebox?"
"Why do you spook at the same thing every single time?"
"I've tried everything. You're getting worse, not better."
"I love you — but right now, I genuinely don't know how to help you."
These are the conversations Connie's clients bring her every day. Spooking, napping, bucking, biting, rearing, refusing to load, separation anxiety, difficulty focusing, shutdown, freeze, panic — and underneath almost every one of them, providing pain has been ruled out as much as possible, the same root cause: a horse who doesn't yet feel safe enough.
EOHIPPUS addresses training challenges and undesirable horse behaviour at its source. Not through correction, suppression, or flooding — but through understanding, trust, and building genuine emotional resilience from the ground up.
EOHIPPUS is designed for owners with:
✦ Young horses, first-time starters, or horses they are re-starting
✦ Sensitive, anxious, or reactive horses
✦ Horses who spook, nap, buck, bite, rear, load badly, or struggle to focus
✦ "Problem" horses who have been to trainers and come back worse
✦ Horses who freeze, shut down, or panic
✦ Owners who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or quietly frightened — and are ready to admit they need proper help
If your horse's behaviour leaves you confused, frustrated, or quietly frightened — you are not alone. And you do not have to keep guessing.
EOHIPPUS is one of the UK's leading online horse training programmes for owners dealing with problem horse behaviour, anxious horses, and the challenges of starting young horses using ethical, science-backed positive reinforcement methods.
MEET CONNIE COLFOX
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT SPECIALIST · 40+ YEARS OF HORSE WISDOM
Connie has spent more than four decades working with young horses, fearful horses, sensitive horses, and horses who have been pushed past their emotional limits. She has started hundreds of young horses using her gentle, horse-centred approach — and helped countless more who had been written off by conventional methods.
She's been filmed by FEI TV. She's worked with Chris Burton for Horse and Country. But what matters most to Connie isn't recognition — it's results. Real ones. The kind where a vet arrives to do a horse's teeth and is speechless at the change.
Connie isn't here to dominate your horse or force compliance. She's here to teach you to listen — because your horse will always be your real teacher.
Connie's approach combines:
✦ Ethical positive reinforcement and thoughtful use of food rewards
✦ Choice-based learning and emotional-awareness training
✦ Gentle exposure to pressure and release
✦ Trust-building, confidence-building, resilience-building
✦ The latest insights from neuroscience — applied in a wholly practical, hands-on way
This isn't rope-swinging, flag-waving 'respect training.' It's real relationship-building — grounded in safety, understanding, motivation, and positive emotion.
When horses feel safe, understood, and capable — they choose to stay, try, and trust.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
EOHIPPUS gives you the skills, the language, and the confidence to become the partner your horse needs. By the end of twelve weeks, you will:
✦ Read your horse more clearly — understand body language, recognise subtle emotional signals, and know how your horse is truly feeling
✦ Use food rewards safely and effectively — introduce treats without creating a muggy, grabby horse; teach your horse when food is part of training and when it isn't
✦ Build trust, resilience, and emotional strength — create a sense of security from which your horse can genuinely grow
✦ Use pressure with fairness and transparency — incorporate negative reinforcement ethically, so your horse always feels they have a choice
✦ Work through frustration — for both of you; learn to recognise and defuse training stress before it becomes fear or shutdown
✦ Start your young horse the kind way — a soft, empowering approach that builds a confident partner from the very beginning
✦ Break through training plateaus — if your horse feels stuck, defensive, spooky, or seems to be getting worse not better, Connie will guide you through it, step by step
This course gives you clarity, structure, support — and a horse who trusts you, because you listened.
HOW EOHIPPUS WORKS
A 12-WEEK IMMERSIVE PROGRAMME — LIVE, PERSONAL, AND DEEPLY PRACTICAL
EOHIPPUS isn't a collection of pre-recorded videos you watch alone at midnight and forget by morning. It is a live, cohort-based programme with a real community, real accountability, and real results.
Your personal 1:1 call — before the course begins
Every prospective participant begins with a personal one-to-one conversation with Connie herself. This is your opportunity to share your horse's history, your challenges, and your goals — and Connie's opportunity to ensure the programme is the right fit. This isn't a sales call. It's the first step in understanding your horse.
11 live Zoom sessions — in an intimate group
The heart of the programme is eleven live Zoom sessions with Connie, held across twelve weeks. Each cohort is deliberately kept to no more than seven participants — small enough that every single person receives Connie's genuine attention.
In each session, Connie walks you through her approach using videos of actual horses she has trained, so you see the method working in real life, with real animals, with real results. You'll watch, ask questions, and learn alongside a small group of equally committed owners.
Crucially, you'll also have the opportunity to share videos of your own horse and your training practice as you go, receiving Connie's personal feedback and guidance week by week. This is where the magic happens — tailored advice, in real time, for your specific horse.
A WhatsApp group and a lifelong community
Between sessions, your cohort stays connected through a dedicated class WhatsApp group — a warm, active space for sharing wins, asking questions, and supporting one another through the inevitable bumps along the road.
You'll also gain access to Connie's private Facebook community of all past and present EOHIPPUS participants: a growing network of thoughtful, welfare-minded horse owners who share your values and your commitment to kindness.
People often say the community is one of their favourite parts of the whole programme.
Backed by neuroscience. Built for real horses.
The EOHIPPUS programme is grounded in the latest understanding of equine neuroscience and learning theory. But Connie is resolutely practical. You won't find dense academic
lectures here — you'll find hands-on, immediately applicable techniques that work in the field, in the stable yard, and in the moment.
