It’s easy to kid ourselves that when we ask a horse a question and we reward for the answer we want, that we are teaching the lesson we want our horse to learn. That’s because we know the end game. We know why we asked the question. Horses don’t have that advantage. They don’t know the ultimate goal
Blocking A Horse's Thought
Connecting The Reins to the Hindquarters and Forehand
Teaching Responsiveness To Pressure
Learning and Un-Learning
Trust and Obedience Discussed Further
The thing that separates good horse people from second-rate ones, is this idea that the best horse people are always working on expanding the ‘contract of trust’, whether it is a first-time experience or the horse has done it a thousand times. The second-rate horse people are just satisfied with obedience and are okay with a horse working to simply avoid trouble.