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"Four Things You Need to Train Your Horse," from my FREE monthly newsletter
From the Young Horse Training Series:
"Training a horse is pretty simple. It's four things: motivator, spot, direction, reward. That's all training a horse is. First, motivation. Do you have a job? What if I asked you to quit your job? What if I said I was going to hire you and give you two bucks an hour. Would you do it? Working with a horse is very similar. You're asking the horse to quit his job and come work for you. His job as you begin training is to get out of that arena as fast as he can, or to get back to that stall or to a buddy horse or find food. They have all kinds of jobs – and their jobs keep changing.
Our job is to create a motivator that causes the horse to quit his job and come work for us. Quit trying to get out of the gate; quit trying to get to the other horse. Quit trying to pick up your left lead and come work for me. Some horses you can hire for two bucks an hour and some will cost you forty. That's just the way it happens. Some horses you really gotta motivate; you gotta say, "No, I really want you to come work for me.""
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"If the horse just stalls out, (slows down, perhaps stopping dead) then move to your right, concentrate on the hips, driving them forward. Ask the horse to move off (again to the left) and take a quick beat before asking for the inside turn again.
Oftentimes, the inside turn can be a real pain to get at first. If you're really having difficulty at this, then the odds are excellent that simply changing the way you carry your hips will help out. Again, carry your hips sideways, don't walk directly at the horse's neck when you want him to turn in. (You walk directly at the head when you want an outside turn.) It will also speed things up immeasurably the quicker you are with your corrections. If the horse turns outside, (when you're thinking "inside") jump like you've been shocked to get him going back the correct way. Finally, pay attention to how fast you "back off" when your horse does something right. Anytime he completes the inside turn correctly, for example, it'll help for you to release your pressure immediately and walk away.
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