Why Sensory Soundness and Behavior Matter as Much as Pedigree explores the missing dimension in modern horse breeding: the internal life of the horse. Kerry examines how sensory processing, emotional regulation, and herd-wired behavior influence trainability, performance, longevity, and welfare—completing traditional breeding practices by asking not just what a horse can do, but how it experiences doing it.

This reflective year in review explores patience, awareness, and growth shaped through meaningful work and lived experience. Rooted in the principles of Sensory Soundness, it reflects on understanding before action, depth over urgency, and the importance of honoring individual experience, weather in horses or in ourselves. A personal reflection on becoming, presence, partnership, and the quiet process of true understanding. ~Daphne Thomas

We invest heavily in what  a horse is. Pedigree. Conformation. Movement. Talent. Discipline suitability. And rightly so. But how much is truly invested in who  the horse is? Because regardless of breed, discipline, or goal, who the horse is determines everything they can become, and just as importantly, how safely, confidently, and sustainably they can get there. Before you drive a new car, you want to know more than how fast it goes. You want to know how it handles corners,

After every trip, on that quiet drive to the airport or while watching the clouds drift beneath the plane, I find myself reflecting. I ask whether I gave everything I had. Whether I showed up fully, learned with humility, taught with heart, and left others inspired to continue their own journey of discovery. This work is my passion, a calling that matters deeply to me, and I carry that responsibility everywhere I go. If you come to an event, you get all of me, all of the time

Case file Geronimo. Sharing his profile. Discovering the Operating System Geronimo’s sensory system functions like an array of over-tuned antennas, brilliant at reception, less efficient at filtration. His forward-directed focus (*Sensory Zone 1) gives him incredible athletic honesty but also leaves him vulnerable to emotional fatigue when too many inputs arrive at once.

Horse Connection Tour in the Netherlands this November, I wanted to share a cross-section of updates and a few core principles deeply woven through all of my work: the books, clinics, workshops, keynote talks, and lectures.

This is not a training manual. It is a journey into the unseen. It has been 13 years since my last book. For more than a decade, the words of Herd Wired  lived scattered across notebooks, loose pages, and case studies collected from wild herds and private evaluations around the world. With the encouragement of my wife, Daphne, who urged me not to let those observations and philosophies be lost to time, I began the daunting task of pulling it all together. Now, I can finally s

There are moments in life that don’t announce themselves—they just happen. You step into a quiet pasture. The horse lifts their head. And before a word is spoken, you realize they’ve already read you. They see something. Not what you show the world…but what you carry beneath it. That’s the moment I call the mirror.

A “first-person” journey into the hearts and minds of the 2025 Belmont Stakes contenders... The Belmont Stakes in Their Own Words There is an entire world that exists between the ears of a horse. These big, beautiful creatures are driven by emotion—they feel, respond, anticipate, communicate, and carry both stress and comfort in ways that can often go unseen unless you know how to look. In my work, I’m constantly searching for new ways to explore and share the inner workings