Horse Training Facts And Maxims All Horse Owners Should Know !

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.