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"How about an article about highway shyness (fear) in horses?"

 
 

Dear Keith...

Monday, January 15, 2007

How about an article about highway shyness (fear) in horses? Fear of cars and 18 wheelers.

 
 
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Suggested Article: "How Do I Get My Horse's Attention?"
"I could walk by my horse all day and he doesn't have to even recognize that I'm here – and it would be a waste of my time to ask him to do anything. But if I took a stick and started poking him, then all of a sudden it becomes a whole lot more...
from our Ask a Horse Trainer series > read more

 
   

Suggested Article: "Solve Every Horse Problem"
This exercise, Hip-Shoulder-Shoulder, has become a "classic" exercise for one very big reason: It gives you control of your horse's stop. Every horse-related problem you can think of comes down to "going and stopping." "I can't get my horse to...
from our How to Train a Horse series > read more

 
   

Suggested Article: "Steering Your Horse"
"If you get too much of a slingshot action with the horse's head, where you pull it back and they give but immediately throw it forward, then you need to move your hands a little slower. Hold on longer, move slower to give back. Make them hold a...
from our Young Horse Training series > read more

 
   

Suggested Article: "How Do I Get My Horse's Attention?"
"I could walk by my horse all day and he doesn't have to even recognize that I'm here – and it would be a waste of my time to ask him to do anything. But if I took a stick and started poking him, then all of a sudden it becomes a whole lot more...
from our Ask a Horse Trainer series > read more

 
   

Suggested Article: "Horses That Want To Bolt, Buck or Blow Up"
"So I ride back to the other spot, and I just keep changing directions. I keep asking and he keeps saying "Alright, alright, we'll have our wreck over here." I just keep moving him around and pretty soon, he decides it's too much trouble to blow up....
from our Learning to Ride a Horse series > read more

 
   
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