Horse show setback? Rebuilding horse training piece by piece.
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Who hasn’t hit a training snag at a horse show? Don’t panic – rebuild.
I remind my students to break it down into the simplest pieces.
I love this quote by Shawna Karrash:
“By focusing on small, low-pressure tasks, we can build a massive amount of credit in his emotional bank account for when things get difficult.…from a horse’s perspective, everything we ask is essentially a trick:
Loading into a trailer is a trick, jumping an oxer is a trick, and performing a piaffe is a trick.
These actions don’t have inherent meaning to a horse, yet we often attach intense importance to them, sometimes to the detriment of their well-being. “
