Barrel Horse Training
Barrel horses are mostly stubborn, ringy, and they hardly listen to their riders. Because of this, many horse trainers have second thoughts in training them. If you were given a chance to train barrel horses, will you take up the challenge?
Well trained barrel horses have a cutting edge, ready to run barrels, and [...]

In horse training, it is not a good idea to use force. Even if the horse will follow you, it is not a reliable move. There isn’t one ‘best’ training approach. As mentioned earlier, horses are unique animals and you must identify the best approach that suits the horse’s personality. Some of the famous horsemanship [...]

When you’re into horse training, you need to find the best approach suitable to your horse. Some approaches work better than others and it all depends on the horse’s learning capacity. The learning pace of each horse varies; some learn faster than others and there are also those who are too stubborn to learn. Studying [...]

Go to the pasture and walk around the whole herd quietly, and at such a distance as not to cause them to scare and run. Then approach them very slowly, and if they stick up their heads and seem to be frightened, hold on until they become quiet, so as not to make them run [...]

When starting to train a horse for the first time, it helps to have an understanding of how horses think and react in the wild.

Horses are naturally herd animals. One stallion generally is the head a herd of mares, but the “lead mare” determines the direction the herd goes.
Horses naturally fear other animals [...]