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Understanding Your Horse’s Response to Pressure

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Horses Learn Conditioned Responses It begins with pressure. Your horse can respond only to pressure. You press with your leg, your horse moves. You pull the reins, your horse stops. Your horse is motivated to do this in order to make the pressure go away. You begin by working with pressure on the ground. You [...]

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Bomb Proofing Your Horse with a Rope

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Bomb-proofing Your Horse – Part Three You've mastered sacking out your horse with the saddle pad, and your horse is doing well. Next move on to a equine rope. All horses need to be sacked out with a rope. Do not even think about getting on your horse without sacking him out with a rope [...]

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Sacking Out your Horse

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Sack out your Horse – Part Two When working with your horse, make sure your horse has a good equine halter and lead on, but keep your horse untied. Why? Your horse needs to know that if things get too scary for him, he can leave. This reduces your horse's anxiety. If you tie your [...]

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Bomb Proofing your Horse

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Sacking Out Your Horse – Part One The best thing you can possibly do for your horse, no matter what their age, is to sack them out. This is a little harder with older horses as they have already developed a set response to things that "spook" them, however, it can be done.

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Longeing Your Horse

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Longeing Horses Be sure to longe your horse with the right equipment, splint boots with bell boots and wraps, a properly fitted halter, a lightweight longe whip and a longe line. Boots will protect horse’s legs from injury if they happen to have an over reach. The longe whip by the way, is used as [...]