Author: Tom Locke
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Working your groundwork
In my view there are three main reasons for doing groundwork 1. To desensitize a horse safely; 2. To exercise a horse; or 3. To prepare a horse to be ridden. If I am trying to desensitize a horse from the ground it is usually to objects that the horse might be led over, such…
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Train a horse in two minutes
Yes, you read that right, you can train a horse in two minutes. If you do a good job of training a horse in two minutes, it only takes seconds to reinforce that training in the future. But, once the horse is trained you might discover that’s not how you meant to train it or…
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How not to fall off a horse
As far as I know there is only one guaranteed way not to fall to fall off a horse – “don’t get on one”. If you have been around horses for a while you will realize that, like us, they are not only living, breathing creatures but they also have feelings and ideas. Like us,…