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From the How to Train a Horse Series:
"How many times do you think you've ridden your horse? A thousand? Five hundred? Just guess. What if every time you got on, you improved something, no matter how small? If you could just see some little improvement for each of those thousand times you've been on that horse, that's a thousand percent improvement. After all, you can't get the horse trained all at once; the key is to make some small improvement every time you get in that saddle. Your mindset, when you get in that saddle, is that something is going to get better. Now, it might not be what you'd planned on working on because it's not a matter of what you want to work on that day – your horse decides for you. You may want to work on your right lead, but the horse says "No, I'm just going to run away." So you may not work on leads at all; you may just work on..."
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"Again, your goal is to keep the horse in one place, to not scare him so much that he takes off, but to get a little reaction out of him each time. But what to do if he scoots away? If he moves off just a few steps, you'll simply ask for an inside turn, bring the two eyes back onto you and start again. Be on the lookout, though, for the horse that moves off then pauses as if he's thinking "maybe I should stay." That's a very good sign. Our lesson is starting to sink in; he's thinking. When that horse returns to you make sure you praise profusely. If he takes off and makes it a quarter turn or more around the pen ask for an inside turn and be careful to bring him back in the direction from which he took off. (That is, if he takes off to your right, don't allow him to return from the left following a run around the ring. Make him turn inside and come back from your right.) If he tears off at a million miles an hour, let him go, but push him through several rotations. Make him understand that dodging off is not the answer, in fact, it means more work. Dissuade this with a handful of laps around the pen. Be very careful to not allow your horse to get in the habit of simply running a lap, then coming back to you. That's not going to force change in his mind.
The idea is that we raise and lower the horse's emotions like a rubber band being pulled then released. Each time he looks at the object and keeps his feet in one place, he finds a release. With repetition, his reactions become less severe and we find that we can expose him to an object that just the day before terrified him.
When you can dance about, wave your arms and holler holding object number one – with little or no reaction from the horse – it 's time to up the ante, so' to speak. Pick up object two and repeat the process: Expose the object to the horse, increase the intensity in your voice or body language until you get a small reaction from your equine partner, then drop the pressure and pet your pet. Don't use an object once the horse is no longer reacting to it. The purpose of this is not to "deaden" him to a particular something, it's to condition his response." - Print out from home
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