5 Days to a Calmer Horse!

You'll be sent your next issue of my horse-training newsletter in the next week or so - but first...

Question: "How do you stop a bolting horse when you can't even control it's speed?"

Answer: "You don't."

My downloadable book "Rein In Your Horse's Speed" gives you detailed, step-by-step training and tells you how to:

- get control of the nervous or "bolting" horse
- turn and stop on a dime
- get easy lead departures and changes
- build a smooth trot and fluid lope
- create a winning partnership

Read the reviews or get more info right now.

This course is broken into five segments or "days" and features the easy, proven methods of John Lyons. Save it to your computer, print it out in two minutes, be training in five!

Why do you need speed control? Because a horse that ignores your request to slow down is dangerous, will catapult into its leads, will turn left ten feet after you ask, will trot like a jackhammer -- and may not stop for a mile or two!

Here's a glimpse at our "curriculum":

- Day One, Instant Training Success: "Specific Request, Specific Response"
- Day Two, Stop Being A Nag - Jump Start Your Training: "Snaffle Bits And Change"
- Day Three, A Top Five Training Concept: "Perfect The First Time"
- Day Four, The Coolest Training Trick John Lyons Ever Taught Me for "Ginormous Results"
- Day Five, A Horse To Brag About: "Build Your Horse On A Loose Rein"

Learn more at Horsemanship101.com/Courses!

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Other Available Courses

Want to see big changes in your horse? Here's a partial list of Horsemanship101 study courses:

• "Stop Bucking"
• "Trailer Training"
• "Round Pen: First Steps"

Simple, how-to guides let you do the training yourself — at your own pace. It's like having your own John Lyons trainer!

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Study Course Giveaway!

"Stop Bucking" and "Rein In Your Horse's Speed"

- Get one for $4.99 or
- Get 2 FOR NOTHING!
- Print out in 2 minutes, be training in 5!

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"Get Your Horse's Attention"

Here's a favorite horse-training tip, excerpted from the article "How To Get Your Horse's Attention":

"You've all heard that you want to get your horse's attention first. That's nonsense. We don't care about the horse's attention; we really don't. When I ride, I don't expect the horse to think about me before he does something. Have you ever been on the trail with your horse when he did everything you wanted him to do? What were you doing? You were looking around, talking to people, enjoying the ride. Did you care for even one moment what your horse was thinking? No, you didn't, because he was doing exactly what you were asking him to do. You didn't care what he was thinking because there he was, walking down the trail, turning right when you asked him to turn right, stopping when you asked him to stop. You didn't care at all what he was thinking. You care when the horse either does - or does not - stop when you ask him to stop or turn when you ask him to turn. Getting his attention is a bi-product of training, of improving his performance. The better your horse stops or turns when you ride out on the trail, for instance, the more of his attention you get and the more control you have...."

Read the entire article when you visit Horsemanship101.com/Articles. You'll find it listed under "Riding Training."

Thanks for reading!

Keith Hosman, John Lyons Certified Trainer
Horsemanship101.com

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Here's a sample from "Snaffle Bits vs Shank Bits"

"The snaffle bit allows me to work his head side to side and get him to begin to utilize his neck. The difference is that, with a snaffle bit, if I pick up the reins and I putt ten pounds of pressure on the rein, that's exactly what the horse feels, ten pounds of pressure. It's pound for pound. If I pull a pound here he feels a pound there. With a leverage bit, if I pull 1 pound he feels 10 pounds down there. That's a big difference. When I train my horses, I'm always using a snaffle bit. Do I ever ride in a shank bit? Yes, because I show my horses and when I show it's required.

"What a leverage bit does is give me the feeling of having more control than I actually have. But it doesn't. The leverage (or shanked) bit doesn't give me any more control than any other bit."

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