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Horse Training Facts And
Maxims
by: Andy Curry
To the uninitiated horse owner,
there are timely facts about horses they should know. In fact, when
someone first gets a horse these timely facts should be studied and
learned.
These timely facts come from
the Jesse Beery horse training manual. Jesse Beery was a famous
horse trainer from the 1800's. Interestingly, Beery's training
methods are as powerful today as they were when Beery was alive.
Timely Fact #1:
Make your horse your friend,
not your slave.
Timely Fact #2:
Almost every wrong act of the
horse is caused by fear, excitement or mismanagement. One harsh word
will increase the pulse of a nervous horse ten beats a minute. Hoses
know nothing about balking until forced into it by bad management.
Any balky horse an be started steady and true in a few minutes. I
never found one that I could not teach to start his load in fifteen
minutes and usually in three.
Timely Fact #3:
Intelligent horsemen have
learned that kickers, biters and balkers are natural results of
abuse, that not one horse in a hundred is vicious until made so by
cruelty; that whipping a horse is as mean and senseless as whipping
a baby, and that the most useful, obedient and long lived horses are
those treated from birth with kindness and common sense.
Timely Fact #4:
The whip is the parent of
stubborness, but gentleness wins obedience. There is no such thing
as balkiness in a horse that is kindly treated, and that gets an
occasional apple, potato or sugar from his master's hand.
Timely Fact #5:
When a hose is afraid or
excited, quiet him by kind words and caress. An excited horse is
practically crazy and to whip him is dangerous, foolish and cruel. I
have known a single blow of the whip to balk a spirited horse.
Whipping a balky horse is barbarous and only increases balkiness.
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