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Foal Training Explained: The First Two Years
Mare owners, if you'd like to get your colt or filly started out with a proper foundation, I would suggest the investment of $5.99 in my foal-training course.

 

- Download and print from your home computer
- 5 days, 5 chapters
- Learn at your own pace

 

Start being very much aware of when your horse is trying and when he's not. Know that "trying" might include him making a mistake or series of mistakes over and over for days. Mistakes are great. Mistakes show us the horse is trying and they show the horse what not to do. Blundering upon the answer doesn't signal an understanding. Be happy he's making mistakes; they signal that he's running through a learning process. Horses (babies, adults, all of them) that are trying deserve tons of patience and all the time in the world to figure something out. If I ask my colt for an inside turn and he repeatedly turns outside instead, I'll ask myself if it's due to my body language. Can I improve my communication and make something clearer. Is it something I'm doing? Or is he just being a turd? If I sense a lack of try or overt rudeness, as evidenced through his turns by him ignoring me and whinnying to his buddies or by a marked laziness or by a "Who do you think you are?" look, I'll amp things up.