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“Broke” is a term that is used to describe
a horses training level and their

willingness to accept cues from riders!

Horses can be:

Green Broke
Really broke
Kid broke
And A personal favorite HUSBAND BROKE!

Here is how IPHDA describes a broke horse!

A broke horse will:

Wait for its rider’s cues
Willingly accept and follow those cues

Thing to consider when talking about a broke horse:

Training went into creating that broke horse.
Broke does not imply what type of training or training method was used to create the broke horse

It is the training that goes into developing a

Broke Horse

that the PHD patterns are based on!

The IPHDA levels are designed to test a horses level of how broke in a progression. this allows every horse and rider to advance their knowledge without skipping any basics education that can cause problems down the road in their quest towards better horsemanship!

When a person says that their horse is broke enough to pass a certain level of PHD, that means they can perform specific basic skills needed at each level of a horses training, while satisfying the IPHDA description of a Broke Horse!