Knowing Your Horse: A Guide to Equine Learning, Training and Behaviour

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You can achieve the challenge awards at your local Approved Centre where they will match you to a horse to ensure your lessons are suitable to your experience. Courses are delivered by an Accredited Professional Coach. Your coach can come to your livery yard or British Riding Club grounds. If you understand how your horse learns and why your training is effective, you can train faster, more ethically, and more sympathetically. Knowing Your Horse will be a key resource if you want to better understand your horse’s behaviour and make the most of that understanding to improve your training techniques.

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When they come in from the field which parts of them are dirtiest; that usually means they’ve spent extra time rubbing that spot in the mud! Here’s a pop quiz. Let’s say you’re riding along the trail on your horse, and a deer startles in the brush ahead of you. What is your horse feeling in that moment, and how is he reacting? Imagine if you could predict how he might respond in that situation, and in that split-second between the startle of the deer and his reaction, your mind, your body, and your cues are already moving one step ahead of him. If you could do that, wouldn’t you feel confident? When you always know what’s about to happen next, and how you’ll respond to it, you can feel self-assured in any situation, whether you’re holding the lead rope or the reins. Developing a signature drill can help you regain control of your horse’s body and his mind when things don’t go according to plan. Spend Your Time Intentionally Your horse should be getting the idea now. Move the object around into difficult places for your horse to reach. Ideal time to try some stretches. Horses are very emotionally sensitive animals so whatever you’re feeling they probably already know, even if you’re not sure yourself! It is one of the reasons that horses make fantastic therapy animals. My boy is 4 and 3 mnths now, and I've had a hell of a job with him, but the last week he has been an angel! I've been wondering whats going on?! Is it "the lull before the storm"?Understanding your horse takes time, and there’s no substitute for that. But just putting in the time is not necessarily enough. People can spend years and years with their horses and never improve their abilities or confidence at all. It’s how we spend that time, rather than how much time we spend, that makes the difference. Be consistent and clear. A confused horse is an anxious horse. Be consistent with the behaviour you reward or ignore. It’s helpful to think of or even note down a set of rules for your horse and how you would like them to behave.

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Eat and relax together: in their herds horses spent all day together munching away. Take your breakfast, lunch or dinner with you and eat with your horse when they are either grazing or enjoying their feed. Nothing is nicer than a picnic with your pony on a sunny day. Would recommend this to experienced and novice owners alike and anyone who may have lost their confidence. Or just wanting to do more with a retired horse. I ride an imaginary horse any time that I’m traveling. If I’m in the car, or on a plane, I spend a great deal of time riding an imaginary horse through various scenarios. When I do that, I’m preparing myself mentally for the next time I’m in the saddle and that scenario occurs. That kind of mental preparation—and immersing your brain in “horse”—is key to building confidence. Mutual/selective grooming: Take a couple of brushes and a handful of treats into the field or school and allow your horse to roam freely. When they come over to you reward them with a treat and give them a groom. In this way they can decide when they are feeling overwhelmed and walk away. This reduces tension as the horse is not struggling to get away from you. This exercise will also encourage your horse to come up to you in the field and be easier to catch.

Thanks to all of you, I am sort of hoping that we get into a good routine in the winter when he is coming in on a night and out in the day etc and I guess its all about good experiences, and reinforcing what is acceptable and what is not I guess in some ways we have come on, I can catch him LOL