4 Chapters from the larger book "What Is Wrong with My Horse?" (Training & Re-Training the Basics)
Whoever Moves First, Loses Discipline problems vanish when your horse sees you as boss; here's training for a rainy day that puts you back in charge.
The First Thing I Do Here's the first thing you should do with your horse today - and with any horse that's "new to you."
When You Get On, Do This First Here's one small thing you can do to keep your horse's attitude in check - and prevent mount-up problems from taking root.
Is My Horse Hard to Train... Because of His Feet? If your horse stumbles, cranes his head to the ground, takes halting steps, doesn't want to "move out," or has grown irritable, it might be that his feet are hurting him. Here's how to tell.
This material was pulled directly from the book mentioned, with no changes made to it whatsoever. It is published in this way to aid folks who find themselves facing a single issue and who do not feel the need to purchase an entire book.
Note before you For the most part, chapters included here do "stand alone," but due to their nature, they may occasionally refer to chapters which must be purchased separately (or by buying the entire book, of course).
To purchase the entire book, please search Amazon.com for "What Is Wrong with My Horse?" You'll get another sixteen chapters for just a couple dollars more.
John Lyons Certified Trainer Keith Hosman lives near San Antonio, Texas and divides his time between writing how-to training materials and conducting training clinics in most of the United States as well as in Germany and the Czech Republic.