I am far more impressed by a trainer who can ask a horse to offer a relaxed and balanced trot or canter irrespective if the horse is wearing gear or not than I am of a trainer who has taught a horse fancy movements that are incorrect and accompanied by worry, but with no gear.
Challenges Make For Better Relationships
If we truly want to develop the best relationship possible with a horse it does not come from protecting them from trouble. It doesn’t come from allowing the no-go areas of our relationship to linger. It comes from facing the things that create anxiety and stress in a horse and ensuring the horse comes out the other side with a good experience and feeling better. Then we look like the good guy and the best friend he could ever have. The best relationships are born from human and horse solving problems together.
Reward From a Horse's Perspective
What Is There To Learn From Everybody?
Evasion Or Yielding
First, there is the adage that people quote over and over again, “make the right thing easy and the wrong thing difficult.” For many people, the emphasis is on making the wrong thing difficult and the “right thing easy” is merely a matter of removing the pressure. This attitude is too simplistic and guaranteed to cause problems along the line.