"Day Five" will show us how to bathe our foals. Know that your horse's ground manners today correspond directly to his quality as a riding horse tomorrow, so time invested solidifying any manner of ground training is time well-spent. (That is, if he drags on the lead now, he'll ignore your reins entirely later.)
This is a one-chapter excerpt from the book "Your Foal: Essential Training"
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 purchase: For the most part, this chapter does "stand alone," but due to its nature, it may occasionally refer to chapters which must be purchased separately (or by buying the entire book, of course).
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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.