People notice when a horse yawns, blinks, changes the position of its ears, or swings its tail. There are so many tiny observations to make that tell a tale about the emotional and mental state of a horse.
One friend asked me which of her horses I thought she should bring to the clinic. I replied that it didn’t matter to me because clinics are not about training her horses ….
When we make it about how a horse feels and how we best prepare their thoughts and emotions for the barrels, canter half-pass, or six-bar, we know we have evolved into a person worthy of the title “horse person”.
One of the things I have heard coming from the mouths of other trainers, instructors, and clinicians is, “I learned it from the horse,” or “Everything I know was taught to me by the horse.”
