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Training a Horse: Patience and Time Will Tell

Published by GHC • Dec 19th, 2007 • Category: Horse Advice, Junior Blogger Archives

by horsejo, age 11

Even the smoothest and most calm horse you have ever seen started off untrained. All horses are at one time or another. When horses are born, they only lean natural things like how to walk and how to eat. Once a horse gets old enough, we have to train them everything else. From not spooking with tack to how to gallop with a rider on your back. Horses may take time to learn, but you have to be patient.

Training

At one time or another, you will want to give up. The horse isn’t learning. It isn’t doing what you want to do. I know it may be hard, but you still have to keep training. You shouldn’t give in for one minute. The horse is just testing you. If you don’t give up, over time, the horse will learn what you want it to learn.

Patience

All horse’s ancestor were once running free. No humans ever rode them or troubled them. They were wild. All horses are wild at first. It takes time and patience to tame a wild horse. But after you tame them, your patience will be rewarded with a new friend to be with and ride on. Nothing can beat that.

The key when training a horse is this: be patient and time will tell.

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  1. This is an awesome blog, horsejo! You really know how to make true things sound interesting!

  2. I think patience is a really important part of training horses, great blog horsejo! :)

  3. Excellent Horsejo! This blog has told me about things I’ve never thought about before. I loved reading it! Keep it up!

  4. Thank you very much!

  5. What inspired me was a not trained horse at my stables, Chester.