Horse Training Facts And Maxims author:Andy Curry source_url:http://www.articlecity.com/articles/recreation_and_sports/article_293.shtml date_saved:2007-07-25 12:30:16 category:recreation_and_sports article:
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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