horse training
“You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper”
-Dagobert D. Runes
There is no better feeling as a rider than bonding with your horse when it has been trained properly — especially when the process of training has not been rushed. When a horse is anxious, unruly and won’t listen, it’s clear the horse has not been properly trained.
This can result in the horse, and its owner, getting seriously hurt. Breaking a horse is the process used by humans to get horses to let themselves be harnessed and ridden. However, when a horse has just been broken to ride, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be friendly and approachable.
However, in modern-day horsemanship we desensitize a horse with behavioral training groundwork, using positive reinforcement. It’s essential when training a horse to unfamiliar stimuli to create associations to the horse that new sights, signs, and smells are good things. This, in turn, builds confidence and boldness in a horse who is fearful of novel situations.
If you have any questions or would like additional information about Jesse’s horse training services, please reach out!
Jesse and The Colonel
Jesse’s uncle Refugio (Cuco), as he was called, doing some groundwork with one of his horses.
Jesse and Sioux
SUCCESS STORY:
Winter was a “Nervous Nellie” as they say. She would get agitated and bite people when they came too close to her. Jesse helped her owner work though Winter’s nervousness by doing the groundwork that was needed for a nervous horse like Winter. Winter was sold and now belongs to a little girl and her family.