How To Cure A Barn Sour Horse or Herd Bound Horse

How To Cure A Barn Sour Horse

Safe and Effective Training Methods Used
To Overcome A Very Frustrating Problem

Introduction

You saddle up and mount your horse.  You flex your horse a little and do a few exercises then head away from the barn for a relaxing ride.  As you head away your horse’s head raises, he pins his ears back and you can sense his body getting tense.

Your horse slows against your will, perhaps throwing his head and comes to a stop.  He’s worried and he balks.  He won’t move forward.  What do you do now?

Depending on how you handle this situation, your horse might spin around and take off back to the barn, possibly rear or start bucking.  It’s a dangerous situation that too many horse owners have experienced.  Many have been hurt when they can’t control their horses and end up getting thrown.

Fence Posts Go Whizzing By….

Another common problem is the horse that will ride away from the familiar barn or buddies okay but once you turn for home he bolts.  He takes off like he’s possessed and doesn’t want to stop for anything.  This is a very dangerous situation for green or inexperienced riders as they try to hold on for dear life and their horse won’t stop with the normal methods.  So they freak and start yanking the reins making things worse.

Frustration….

As a rider, this situation is very frustrating.  You want nothing more than to enjoy your horse and ride him, not only around the barn, but also on trail rides and events.

What do you do?  How do you overcome these problems and get to the point where you can start enjoying your horse away from the barn or his stable buddies?

What in the world makes your horse act this way?

In the following chapters we’ll examine the cause and the solution to these nagging problems!  Barn Sour, Buddy Sour and Herd Bound are all problems related to each other and the solution is almost identical for all.

Want the whole book?

Get the book:  How To Cure The Barn Sour Horse

Horse Training Tips - Prof Jesse Beery Experts

Horse Training Tips - Prof Jesse Beery Experts

I talk, read and write about horse training every day.  I send out horse training tips to thousands 4 - 6 times per week.

One of the most important parts about horse training and probably one the most important horse training tips I could convey to you is the importance of understanding how a horse thinks and learns.  Too many folks, who are new to horses or who haven’t studied horses much, attempt to apply human emotion and understanding to their horse training and it just doesn’t work that way with horses.

Horse can’t reason.  They react to stimuli around them.  They aren’t capable of processing multiple inputs and reasoning a response to them.  They are prey animals and will escape danger if at all possible.

So, if you’re having difficulty trying to figure out why your horse is having problems understanding what you want, then you could do no better than to start studying about how horses learn first.

One of the most famous horse trainers in history was Prof. Jesse Beery.  He wrote Prof Jesse Beery’s  Illustrated Course In Horse Training back in the early 1900’s.  He was a master at getting problem horses to do exactly what he wanted and did so in shows and fairs all over the country.

I have to laugh at those who look at his course today and make comments like “that was over 100 years ago - it can’t be any good today”.   Well folks, such thinking is very limiting to your understanding about horses and how they learn.

It was Jesse Beery who figured out how to handle different horses of different dispositions.  It was he who formulated training methods that made him famous and are still used by tens of thousands of horse owners and trainers today.   Most successful professional horse trainers today use methods developed by Jesse Beery - whether they acknowledge it or not.

If you have not read any of the works that Prof Jesse Beery has written, then I suggest you pick up a copy now.

Here’s one of my horse training tips that you can take to the bank: if you read the Jesse Beery Course and strive to understand what he teaching you about how horses learn and then study each of his methods with an open mind, you’ll improve your horse training and understanding 10 times.  Jesse Beery also talks about teach horses to drive (wagons, etc.) which may not apply to what you do with horses today.   But don’t scoff at that - there’s tons of things to learn in that alone whether you ever drive a horse or not.

Horse Training Resources is the undisputed leader in offering all the Prof Jesse Beery products.  We offer:

1. The full Jesse Beery Course as a spiral-bound printed book or as PDF downloads.

2. The Jesse Beery Course in MP3 Audiobook format (on CD or as downloads).

3. The Jesse Beery 4-Way Bit for riding and training

4. The Beery Pulley Bridle - which helps you cure problems in hours, not days or weeks.

5. We also have many of these products put together as a Jesse Beery Bundle to save you lots of  $$

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Horse Training Tips: Horse Training Starts With You

Horse Training Tips: Horse Training Starts With You

Do you have things you need to work on with
your horses?  (who doesn’t?)

Training horses starts first with the trainer.  Unless
you are already experienced and know what to do, you’ll
need to learn some handling and training skills prior to
understanding and teaching your horse anything.  This
winter time is an excellent time to do that.

Understand The Mind of the Horse:

Ask any experienced horse trainer and they’ll tell you
the one most-important secret in their bag of tricks
is understanding the mind of the horse.  If you can
understand how the mind of a horse works, how they learn,
and how they will react to a given situation, then you
can quickly determine how best to train and shape your
horse’s brain to perform as you want.

No one understood this better than Prof. Jesse Beery.
Beery’s course has been so successful over the years
because he teaches you these secrets.  Even though the
course was written over 100 years ago and even though
some don’t agree with him at times, his methods do work,
are humane and, if you take the time to understand the “WHY”
of what he does in his training methods, then you, too, will
become a much better horse handler and trainer yourself.

You can see Jesse Beery’s course here:

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/beery.html

Couple his course with the professional techniques and
expertise of the trainers we offer through our DVDs, and
you have the basis for building a huge arsenal of horse
training bag of tricks of your own that will last you
a lifetime.

You can see all our professional training DVDs here:

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/DVD.html

Proven Methods and Repetition - The Key To Success:

I would challenge you to do this:  whether it is a DVD
you already purchased or one you get in the near future,
re-play that DVD 2 or 3 times and take notes.  Don’t simply
watch it as if you were being entertained by a movie.  But
rather be mindful of what the trainer is teaching and why
he/she is using the methods they are.  I assure you, there
are many, many “gems” of knowledge to pick up in each DVD
and some may be so subtle that you don’t even realize it.

Listen to what they say as well as what they do.  It’s like
when I would listen to my grandfather, and in later years,
my father, as they talked about something.  They said so many
things that were priceless but I often missed it until they
said it 2 or 3 times or replayed their words in my mind.

Listen and watch actively - as if your training and horse
depended on it.  I guarantee you - you will be enriched as
you strive to learn the tips, secrets and methods these
trainers are teaching.

Prioritize your horse problem areas, pick the top one,
learn through our books and DVDs and make a plan on how
you want to approach the training.  You’ll be amazed at
how you make progress if you focus on one thing at a
time.

You will have clarity of purpose and your horse will
appreciate it more and not be so confused.  Don’t
go onto new things until you are satisfied with the
result from the first problem.  Then check that one
off and go on to the next thing.

In 30 days you’ll be amazed at the progress.

Try it - commit to it.  You’ll start enjoying your
horses a lot more.

No go out and do it.  But please do it all safely.

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2. Old Horse Movies Website Up and Running!

Yesterday we finished our new website launch of:

www.OldHorseMovies.com

Thanks to all of you who signed up.

Our launch was to run Monday and Tuesday only but
we had to delay opening the doors until Monday afternoon.

http://www.oldhorsemovies.com/membership-signup/

ALSO - I had a couple folks who asked if they could send
a check instead of signing up online.

The answer is yes.  You can mail your check or money
order to us and still get the special pricing if you
do it today.  We’ll send you your login information
and the links to the bonus books as soon as your
check arrives.

Mail the checks to:

Horse Training Resources
Attn: Charlie
12702 S 124th Ave
Papillion, NE  68046

Be sure to include your email address with a note
for what the check is for.

Here’s the link to sign up now:

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Horse Training Videos: 5 Rules of Building Respect With Your Horse

Horse Training Tips: 5 Rules of Building Respect With Your Horse

You’d be surprised.

Respect from your horse isn’t just about making him move and keeping him out of your space.

Like a recipe for a cake, getting respect from your horse is made up of different ingredients.

Brad Myers says this in his DVD:

“You have to earn the horse’s
respect…you cannot demand it.”

Demanding your horse’s respect is a way to get yourself hurt.

No one, not even horses, like to be ruled by an iron hand.

Thus, says Brad, “you get the respect by being the leader, by educating your horse, by showing them, by preparing them, and  having feel.”

Horse Training Videos - Brad Meyers

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-meyers.html

Let’s go over these one by one.

First, being the leader.

Being the leader means just that.

You never allow him to get in your space
but you can go into his.

Being the leader means when you tell him
he can eat…then he can eat.

And here’s something people miss.

When he’s eating…

“Leave Him Alone!”

That’s his time - not yours.

Besides, there’s a little-known yet powerful
“Respect Destroyer” that happens when you’re with
your horse when he eats.

It’s one of the greatest tips ever revealed
by a trainer and I give Brad total credit for it.

Onward.

Next, educating your horse.

He needs to know what you want.

When he knows what you want, he’s not
confused and therefore has more confidence.

When he has confidence around you, he feels
good about you.

How do YOU feel around people when you feel
confident when being with them?

Don’t you have more respect for them?

Also, when you educate your horse, you’re
getting them to move their feet and that builds
respect for you in their mind.
(As long as you’re fair)

Next, showing them.

This is much like educating them.

Show them they can trust you.

Show them you are the leader and you will
take care of them.

Show them they don’t have to freak out
over a plastic sack.

Preparing them is the next.

An example is giving them a cue before
you ask them to do something.

Don’t just demand it without a prompt.

Preparing also comes in the form of
warming up before exercising.

Lastly, and very important, have feel.

Feel is kinda hard to explain but is
critical.

The best definition of “Feel” I ever
heard was from Brad Myers.

If you want to know more about Brad,
click the following:

Horse Training Videos - Brad Meyers

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-meyers.html

Brad says “Feel” is:

1. Timing
2. Balance
3. Release

Timing is knowing “when” to ask your
horse something.

Balance is knowing, for example, if you
need to apply more pressure…or less.

How much is too much?
How much is not enough?

Release is, of course, releasing the
pressure so the horse seeks the release and
therefore learns what to do.

No doubt there’s a lot to know about
respect. There’s far more to it than what I
just told you - but I couldn’t explain it
better than what Brad does.

Frankly, if you don’t own this DVD yet
then you should.

It’s one of the most important ones we
have available.

Horse Training Videos - Brad Meyers

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-meyers.html

I would suggest, that anytime you watch any of
our DVDs or read our books, that you study what’s
going on.  These professional trainers have developed
and revealed dozens of tips, methods, techniques and even
some of their “secrets” that they are teaching you.

Please don’t watch them to be “entertained”.  They are
not for that purpose.  But if you will watch each one
multiple times - at least 3 times - you will pick up
all these training “gems” that you can put into your
bag of tricks to use for years to come.

Our training materials should be considered an
investment in you - and ultimately in your horses.
But it all starts with you.

Study what they’re showing.  You’ll be surprised at
how much more you can pick up if you’re actively
looking for the principles they want you learn.

That’s it for today…stay safe out there.

Charlie

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Or perhaps for your kids or grandkids to share?
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If you were thinking about getting one you might
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It is an investment in both you and your horses.

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Do You Suffer From “Horse Training Information Overload”?

Do You Suffer From “Horse Training Information Overload”?

I received a letter from one of my readers (I’ll call her Jill)
who has been on my email list for over a year.  She has
issues with her horses while riding outside of the round pen.
Jill is fairly new to horses and is still trying to figure things out.

Jill has spent tons of money on clinics, DVD sets by big
name trainers, books, etc.  I don’t know the actual amounts but
knowing the prices some of these folks charge I’d guess
it would be in the thousands by now.

In fact, she mentioned that she’s thinking all this horse
training stuff is a scam.  [It’s sorry, but there are some
pretty low-life characters in every profession.]

Jill’s issue?  What makes our DVDs and Jesse Beery products
that we sell any different than what she already has sitting
on the shelf?    She’s frustrated.  She hasn’t achieved the results she
wanted so far even though she has tons of good (and some
not so good) products and attended some big name clinics.

What Jill really wants is a product that will solve all
her issues that happen with her horse while she’s riding.

She wanted to know specifically about the Jesse Beery course
and our other professional trainers featured on our DVDs.

Want to know what I told her?

“Don’t Buy Our Products”

As a company that sells horse training products and
is the primary income that feeds our family and pays the
mortgage…well, you might think I’d say something else.

I could have - but I think I’d be doing Jill a disservice
by doing so.  You reap what you sow.  It’s a principle
we live by.

I don’t doubt for a minute that if Jill sent the same letter
to some of the big names selling the $1,000 + DVD sets, that
they’d suggest she buy their products.

But I think Jill already has all the information she needs.

You see, I think that Jill’s problem is lack of
focus and understanding.  In reality, the real issue is:

“Information Overload”

It is so easy today to buy books, DVDs, courses, go to
clinics, etc…..all while lacking focus.

We tend to jump from one thing to the next hoping the
magic bullet will appear.  But it doesn’t.

[You’ve heard me say this dozens of times: Horse
training takes lots of time and patience.  You MUST
understand how a horse thinks and how he learns before you
can adequately train him.]

At times we read about some special way of doing things, or
someone puts a spin on something that was real common
years ago but calls it something else now.  So, we drop
what have only to run over to get this neat, new thing.

Sound familiar?  I must tell you, I’m just as guilty as
anyone else in one of my interests.  I can spot it ‘cuz
I live it.  We can get distracted too easily.

So, that’s why I told Jill to put everything on her
shelf except a specific trainer’s stuff.  Take that
one thing, study it intently, and then go apply only
his methods to her horse.

Focus.  Understand what the trainer was saying and why.
Understand why he is teaching the horse in a specific way
due to the way the horse learns.  Understand the nature
of the horse and then go teach.

Train the trainer first.  Stay focused.  Work on one
thing at a time.

I’m anxious to hear back from her to see how it goes.

Don’t get me wrong - I think diversity in training
and learning various methods from proven, professional
trainers is good.  In fact, it’s frequently needed since
not all horses respond to the same training methods
as others.  Some horses have different dispositions -
just like my 5 kids.  What works on one may be less
effective on another.

So we go into our horse training bag-o-tricks and
try something else.  But we have to have a clear,
solid foundation built first.

The foundational stuff, especially for someone
who is green and just starting out, is important.
In that case, learning from a multitude of trainers
can be confusing and you find yourself bouncing
around like a pinball looking for an out.

So, did I do the right thing?  Perhaps I should have
sold Jill the books and DVDs and let her continue in
a state of confusion.  She’s read my free training email
tips for over a year so she probably has some level of
trust built up based on what I’ve written.

But, I couldn’t do it.  I want to sleep at night.  I want
to do the right thing.  We didn’t build our business
on the practice of selling something to folks that they
didn’t need or that might hinder their training efforts.

It’s like our Pulley Bridle.  We’ve had lots of questions
from folks who ask if it will help them with their horse
that has a an issue with _____.  Many times we’ve had to say
NO - sorry.  It’s only meant for ______.  It’s not a
bridle to be used while riding.  It’s only meant to be
used from the ground.  But it’s very effective for the
things it is designed for.

Some companies would sell it to them anyway.  And then
wonder why they don’t have many repeat customers.

OK - I’m rambling.

Onward…..

   If you have a shelf full of tapes, DVDs and books
and still aren’t sure what to do, the please skip
over this next section.  It’s not for you.

I’m going to do something simple.  I’ll only let two
of these bundles be sold.  If you’re the third person
to purchase before we can change the offer then we’ll
cancel the order and issue a refund.

We sell a complete collection of ALL our DVDs.  It is
titled, “The Entire Horse Training DVD Library”.

Catchy title, eh?  I named it myself ;>)

   Anyway, if you are one of the two folks who buy this
26 DVD set, we’ll include a one-year subscription to
The Horse Library (normally $198 for the year).

You can see the Entire DVD Library here:

Entire DVD Library

http://horsetrainingresources.com/WholeLibrary.html

You can read about The Horse Library here:

The Horse Library 

http://horsetrainingresources.com/TheHorseLibrary.html

If you’re one of the first two, you’ll get it all.  Note
The Horse Library includes all our books, including the
Jesse Beery books and audio books, dozens of articles,
other audio books, old-time Western movies, etc.

It not for everyone, but for those who can afford
it, it’s an excellent investment in furthering your
horse training understanding and skills.

But please, do me a favor.  Don’t buy it if your
shelf is already full of other trainer’s stuff.  Maybe
you should dust off some of those other books and DVDs
you already have and go through them again.

If you can share our DVDs with others and help others
along the way then this is a great way to justify
this set.

Entire DVD Library

http://horsetrainingresources.com/WholeLibrary.html

Now - go do the right thing.  But please do it safely!

Charlie

P.S.  The Sue Robertson Trick Training DVD is on sale for
$20.00 off and you can buy the Trick Training DVD along
with the Jesse Beery course (book 8 is all about teaching
tricks) for only $99.00.  But this special ends Monday
evening.

See the DVD (and the bundle) here:

Sue Robertson Trick Training DVD

http://horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-tricks.html

An email from Mare:

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“You have helped me in more ways than one.
I can’t thank you enough.

Thank you…. Mare”

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Horse Training Tips: Calm Your Horse - Use A Goat

I ran across this video earlier and think you’d enjoy it a lot.

Here’s a calm horse laying down in the pasture with a baby goat climbing all over it!

It’s common knowledge that goats and horses make great friends - and this proves it.

Watch it - it’s well worth the 2 minutes!

Horse Training Tips: 7 Never Do’s With Your Horse

  1. It’s Jesse Beery Week - Get 20% off and

      Watch The Jesse Beery Special show on RFD-TV Sunday

2. “7 Never Do’s With Your Horse”

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 1. It’s Jesse Beery Week - Get 20% off and
Watch The Jesse Beery Special show on RFD-TV Sunday

Catch the Jesse Beery Special show on the Rick Lamb show
on RFD-TV on Sunday morning.  Record if you must - it is
well worth watching to better understand Jesse Beery and
his many years of horse training expertise and wisdom.

His course has sold over 300,000 copies world-wide and
are the only ones in the business selling a full collection
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and 4-Way bit.

Prof Jesse Beery Course

In celebration, we are having a Jesse Beery Special this
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Bit on sale for $15.00 BEFORE the discount (so you pay $12
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Beery 4-Way Bit for Riding and Training

If you have a colt to start or have behavior problems with
your horses then the Jesse Beery course is an excellent
investment.  You’ll learn not only his methods but
also understand how a horse thinks and learns.  The result
is a better relationship with your horse that is well-controlled
and safe.

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2. “7 Never Do’s With Your Horse”

Have you ever wished you could have a fast-path to
success with something you love doing?

I do.

I think the fast food industry and
microwaves have ruined us.

They’ve taught us we can have stuff
quickly without waiting too long.

We want what we want and we want it
now…thank you very much.

When it comes to horses, you can’t
get instant results.

But you can learn things you should and
shouldn’t do very quickly without getting hurt.

That being so, I wanted to give a
quick list of “Never Do’s” with your horse.

I pulled these from JJ Rydberg’s
DVD which you can see at:

J.J. Rydberg DVD

(Shhh - don’t tell anyone but I’ve taken $20.00 the price
of the J.J. Rydberg DVD when you add it to the cart.  You’ll
only see the discount if you add it to your cart.  This is
only for my email readers and not announced on the website)

Here they are:

 Never Do #1:

Never constantly pull.
Take and give a loose rein.

   Never Do #2:

Never teach anything past the trot that’s new,
he won’t learn it and it’ll frustrate you both.

Never Do #3:

Never keep working your horse without periodic
breaks during the session because he needs to
have control to feel good.

 Never Do #4:

Never fight with the horse.  You won’t win. If
he gets mad, back WAAAAY off.

   Never Do #5:

Never keep pushing your horse when you run into
problems. Go back to the basics and soften up on
the way you ride.

   Never Do #6:

Never quit a horse when he’s mad.  You’ll pick
up right where you left off.  Better to leave
him feeling good so you pick up from there.

   Never Do #7:

Never forget to spend lots of time teaching your
horse to give.

There you go.

7 valuable “Never Do’s”.

These are so important, I encourage you
to print them out, stick ‘em in your pocket, and
review them while working with your horse.

Again, these came from JJ Rydberg and you
can see more about him by clicking on the following:

J.J. Rydberg DVD

(Shhh - don’t tell anyone but I’ve taken $20.00 the price
of the J.J. Rydberg DVD when you add it to the cart.  You’ll
only see the discount if you add it to your cart.  This is
only for my email readers and not announced on the website)

That’s it for today - Please stay safe out there!

Charlie

P.S. Take advantage of the Jesse Beery Specials this week:
Get 20% OFF ANY Jesse Beery product and bundle.  Use the
Coupon Code BEERY20 on the checkout form and click Apply.

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Also - get the Beery 4-Way Riding/Training Bit for only
$15.00 (BEFORE the 20% off - so it’s only $12.00 when you
use the coupon).

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in Horse Training about a year ago, and I refer
to it all the time!

I also LOVE getting your tips via email! Thanks!

Keep up the good work!

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Prof Jesse Beery - Horses: Creatures of Habit

 Prof Jesse Beery - Horses: Creatures of Habit
Part of the secret to horse training is understanding how horses think and why they react the way they do to the things in their environment.

Take, for instance, the great strength a horse has.  If a horse was fully aware of its own strength and he could reason, then he wouldn’t be able to be controlled by a voice command or reins.  The horse would always know he could over power the handler whenever he wanted.

[Be thankful the horse cannot reason!  I’m guessing we’d be using a lot fewer horses if they could!]

Fortunately, that isn’t how a horse thinks.  If he has been allowed to get away with things due to lack of proper training then he’ll know, for that situation, he has strength that can be used to over power you.

You see, a horse’s brain can be programmed and the horse can be controlled through a series of proper training techniques.  For any given situation, the horse should provide a fixed response.   Put the horse into that situation - such as the command WHOA, and the horse should know to stop.  Right NOW! Not when he wants to or feels like it.

But take a horse who has been allowed to get away with something - like running back to the barn out of control as fence posts go whizzing by - and he’ll do it every time until you teach him otherwise.  He can form bad habits just as easily as good habits.

The object of your training is teaching good habits.
You take one thing at a time so you don’t confuse your horse and work him on it until he gets is.  It may take one or two times - it may take multiple times - but you don’t introduce him to something else until he gets it.

You are establishing, encouraging and rewarding good habits. If done properly, he’ll react the same way time, after time.

You may have inherited bad habits when you bought a horse, you may have allowed a horse to form bad habits because you didn’t know any better or know how to fix it or, your horse may have had an accident and now has a negative reaction or habit to overcome.  Whatever the reason - you need to understand that until you can teach him and coach him to do the RIGHT thing and enforce that with positive feedback and praise when he does, he’ll react the same way each time.

Each bad habit can be overcome.  Specific techniques can be used to overcome each of the common bad habits horse owners normally face.  Some are more difficult than others but all can be solved.

Prof Jesse Beery

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/beery.html

Prof. Jesse Beery details ways to not only train a horse starting from a colt but to also fix a couple dozens of the most common problems.  He was a master at and personally trained hundreds or horses.  Through his books and School of Horsemanship, his methods have successfully trained thousands of horses.

Take advantage of these methods…still 100% accurate for today, even though they are 100 years old.  Horse just haven’t changed or progressed in their thinking in that time!
Prof Jesse Beery

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/beery.html

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All the best with your training,

Charlie

Horse Idioms

Horse Idioms

Over time I have gathered a list of horse idioms I’ve read or heard people use.  So, I keep adding to list as I come across them.

Get the updated Horse Idioms and Sayings list on our site.

 Here’s my list:

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

Straight from the horse’s mouth.

A charlie horse

A horse of another different color

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

A one-horse race

A Trojan horse

Straight from the horse’s mouth

I could eat a horse

He eats like a horse

Don’t back the wrong horse

Don’t beat a dead horse

Don’t change horses in midstream

Don’t put the cart before the horse

Don’t spare the horses

He/she eats like a horse

For want of a nail the shoe is lost,
for want of a shoe the horse is lost,
for want of a horse the rider is lost.

Get off your high horse

Get it straight from the horse’s mouth

Hold your horses!

Stop horsing around

That’s a horse of another color

A dark horse

Horse sense

Horses for courses

If two ride on a horse, one must ride behind

If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

This is a one-horse town

Play the ponies

Put a horse out to pasture

Don’t put the cart before the horse

Shut the stable door after the horse has bolted

He’s strong as a horse

Wild horses couldn’t drag him away

That’s horseplay

Get on one’s hobby horse

 We’re constantly adding to the list of  Horse
Idioms and Sayings list on our site.

Horse Training Methods - Is Your Horse Half-Brained?

“Is Your Horse Half-Brained?”

I remember being called ‘half brain’ when I was younger.

The reason for that was my ‘not so smart moments’ in life like when I forgot to shut the front door as I left the house or a dozen other things.

[With my kids in the 12 - 18 year old range I call  it the “teenage minds of mush” syndrome.  Relate?]

Believe it or not, horses are half brained much of the time and it can work against you if you’re not aware of it.

Here’s what I mean.

As you know, horses have an eye on each side of their head.

The right eye can see what’s going on towards the front of him, to his right, and behind him on the right.

His left eye takes care of the other side.

Thus, one eye can see what’s happening on one side of his body ‘independently’ of the other eye.

Us humans do not have that ability.

Do you know what that means?

That means ‘half’ of his attention is assigned to one eye.  The other half of his attention is assigned to the other eye.

That means half of his brain is with one eye and the other half is with the other eye.

Why is that important?

Because when you’re working with your horse and you’ve only got one of his eyes on you…

You Only Have
Half Of His Attention!

If you don’t have his attention, you don’t have the horse.

What’s curious to me is a lot of people don’t understand this.  Or if they do, they don’t seem to mind the horse doesn’t give them full attention.

But it’s crucial to have it if you’re going to teach your horse something.

Not only that, I find it totally disrespectful to NOT have someone’s attention when I’m talking - and that goes for horses too!

Have you ever had a conversation with someone and as you talk they look away, or act uninterested, or keep looking at their watch?

That’s rude!

Although I can’t do much about a person being rude, I certainly can with a horse.

And when a horse isn’t giving me his attention, it’s rude.

After all, I’m not asking them to give it to me all day.

They have 23 hours a day to eat, meander, run, etc….but when it’s my time - I want ‘em giving me attention.

And if I only get one eye, then I’m not getting ALL their attention.

Now there are many times you won’t always get both eyes.

After all, if you’re lungeing a horse you’ll only get one eye because he’s circling around you.

BUT!!!

He can still focus most of his attention on you while lungeing.

And he should.

But remember, a horse’s attention span isn’t all that long and they have to be reminded to give it to you.

The younger the horse, the shorter the attention span. (Generally speaking)

How do you get your horse’s attention back on you if you lose it?
Make ‘em move.

Create a little pressure.

Now why is this important?

Well, a horse ignoring you is bad manners for the horse.

A horse, like kids, must have good manners. Giving you attention is part of good manners.

But also, to train a horse you must have his attention.

If he’s going to be responsive to what you ask him to do, you have to have his attention.

What I just told you about how the horse’s brain works and how getting both eyes gives you both sides of his brain…which gives you his attention… is a significant part of understanding the horse.

If you have ever wondered to yourself, ‘Why does my horse do X ? ‘, then it may be there’s something about his nature you don’t know…but should.

In all my encounters with horse trainers, there’s one thing (among others) that we consistently agree on.
And that is…

‘To be successful with horses,  you must understand their nature.’

Makes sense, really.

After all, if you’re going to be a surgeon, you must know how the body works so you can repair damage and keep it working.

If you’re going to be an auto mechanic, you must know how engines work to fix them.

If you make engine repairs that are inconsistent with how an engine works, you will fail.

Training your horse is much the same way.

You MUST know how it works, thinks, acts, reacts, and so on.

There are lots of books on the subject if you want to read and study up on it.

Jesse Beery figured this our real early when he was learning horse training and developing his training methods.  You can see more about his training course here:

http://horsetrainingresources.com/beery.html

Or, you can take advantage of many of our excellent training videos by one of our professional trainers here:

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Remember…

The more you know about your horse, the better you’ll be.

That’s the big difference between people who are mildly successful versus those who can get their horses doing amazing things.

Knowledge.

It begins with understanding the nature of your horse.

Ok… that’s it.

Stay safe out there with your horses.

Charlie