Our Connection With Our Horses
The affiliation relating your horse and you is a continuing one. But immersing yourself with horses is normally simpler and more enjoyable when you enjoy empathy and awareness. To be able to link to your horses, you will need to comprehend their mindset, in order to pre-empt horses' behaviours you have to comprehend just how their minds work and why they act in certain ways. A decent knowledge also builds confidence on each side-horse and human.
When a horse is faced with a threatening position, the horse's natural reaction is to run, and therefore its view on life is one of defenselessness as supposed to confrontation. As human beings, how we react and feel in differing situations can depend on our upbringing and experience. This is also the case with your horses, so therefore meticulous early handling and instruction are highly important.
We should never count on a horse to go against its intincts, i.e., not to be cautious or uncertain - however with good training we can be in charge of these instincts and show to your horses, in a more positive manner, that a unique situation or thing needn't be feared.
Horses by nature are gregarious herd creatures, who welcome the addition of other horses, and also other creature companions and people. Furthermore, even broken stable horses will develop their own order of command.
Sometimes the older stallion down the bottom of the row neight more loudly at feed time or, as many top riders report, their retired star kicks the wall demanding attention first when a rider walks into the stables in the morning.
It is a well known fact that horses will react better to positive encouragement from you or your trainer when trying to overcome their natural flight intincts. 'Breaking-in', a expression formerly associated with a younger horses first conditioning to carry a rider, is now swapped with phrases similar to 'starting', which convey far less the implication of supremecy.
From therapeutic sessions with horses and children to the most successful of competition riders, a common association - that of trust and love between rider and horse - is blossoming.
Your horse will view its human contacts as part of its 'herd' in the herd hierarchy, It is both the rider and trainer's joint intellectual capacities which let them have the advantage. This is why the man/horse association has developed very well for hundreds and thousands of years, and is the reason why human beings can control an animal that are far stronger than themselves.
All riders in their early lessons will usually be told not to be nervous. However at this early stage the new rider should be introduced to riding on a more steady, experienced horse and therefore should be able to relax, the point that horses need encouragement and protection is something to take note of and encourage from the start of a life of riding.
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