Desensitizing a horse to the flag, to the rope or to the hand is a basic exercise that would actually considerably reduce the number of injuries caused by horses suddenly fleeing because of a plastic bag, a car, wind in branches, etc. The first objective is security.
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Books: On Horsemanship by Xenophon / quote
It is quite interesting to observe that most of the major principles on which modern Natural Horsemanship is based were already well known more than two thousand years ago in Greece and around the Mediterranean Sea. Indeed, the philosopher Xenophon clearly deals with the following concepts:
- Desensitizing;
- Gentleness and patience;
- Timing and harmony with horses;
- Diversity in training;
- Making the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy;
- Getting the soft feel and avoiding riding gimmicks;
- Rewarding the slightest try.
Horses minds are jigsaw puzzles / quote
This is our responsibility to make sure that we did not tear or lose a piece of the puzzle.
Wild horses have left European plains and 99.9% of our horses have been bred in farms, handled as weanlings, started between their second to fourth birthdays, and sold to private owners, professional stables or riding schools.
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Horsemanship is a full-time job
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- Name: Etamoor
- Breed: Arabian
- Age: 3 ½ years old
- Genre: gelding
Video: Starting a Spanish horse / video
- Name: Finito
- Breed: P.R.E.
- Age: 3 ½ years old
- Genre: gelding
Video: Foundation groundwork and saddle work with a Quarter Horse / video
- Name: Brego
- Breed: Quarter Horse
- Age: 4 years old
- Genre: gelding