How To Use Smart Horse Training To Stop Your Horse From Bucking

•Horse Training For Napping Horses
   by Andy Curry© 2004 Andy CurryAll Rights Reserved If you ever rode a horse that would stop and refuse to go forward then you would know how absolutely annoying it is. Why do they stop? Because that's their reaction to a worrisome or unpleasant situation. Even nervous and timid horses can stake themselves to the ground because they are apprehensive about leaving the herd or the barn. What other reasons are there for napping? One is the horse simply doesn't know what to do. They'd rather...

•The One Minute Horse Training Manager
 by: Andy Curry If your life is so busy you literally only have a minute or two a day to spend with your horse, then here are 5 smart training tips you can use to keep your horse tuned up when you have just minutes a day. Smart Tip #1: Practice Backing Up Suppose you just fed your horse some hay and he's eating. Assuming you have enough room to get beside him, put your finger into his chest and get him to back up. Getting a horse to back up is a basic and essential lesson horses should...

•Horse Training Gets A New Face Lift From A 108 Year Old Horse Training Manual
 by: Andy Curry If you have a passion to learn all you can about horse training, then you will want to know about a 108 year old horse training manual recently revived from a dusty old book shelf of a used book store. This horse training manual was written in the late 1800's by a then world famous horse trainer named Jesse Beery. In Beery's manual he explains the different steps it takes to train a horse to be gentle, safe, reliable, and valuable. Although this is a very basic example,...

•Horse Training 101
   by Andy Curry Horse training is an art. But it also has rules that govern how to work with and train a horse. For instance, when you're training a horse to do something, you don't want to drill him with it so much that he becomes sour on it and unwilling to do it next time. The trick is to get him doing what you ask, then asking him to do it a few more times, then stop asking. You can ask him to do it more for you the next day but you should stop asking for too much. Here's a human view on...

•Horse Training Techniques From The 1800 s
 by: Andy Curry Was he the world's greatest horse trainer of all time? Would his picture be in the horse trainer's Hall Of Fame? Perhaps. His name was Jesse Beery. Before he was twenty he became a world class horse trainer. He was so well known, there were more people who heard of him than didn't. Jesse Beery learned how to train horses almost entirely on his own because there were few people who knew how to train a horse. Beery's parents discouraged horse training as a career but...

•Horse Training Facts And Maxims
 by: Andy Curry To the uninitiated horse owner, there are timely facts about horses they should know. In fact, when someone first gets a horse these timely facts should be studied and learned. These timely facts come from the Jesse Beery horse training manual. Jesse Beery was a famous horse trainer from the 1800's. Interestingly, Beery's training methods are as powerful today as they were when Beery was alive. Timely Fact #1: Make your horse your friend, not your slave. Timely Fact...

•How To Use Horse Training Thinking To Solve Dang Near Any Problem With A Horse
 by: Andy Curry Horse training can be a relatively mysterious subject to people who have not studied it. Even more mysterious is a behavioral problem a horse has that causes his owner stress and frustration. What many horse owners don't understand is often the handler, not the horse, is causing the problem. That being said, that is the first consideration in unscrambling the horse's ill behavior. For instance, a common problem riders have is a horse being spooky. In layman's terms,...

•The TOP 7 Mistakes Horse Owners Make
 by: Andy Curry Mistake #7 – Assuming You Can Get On Any Horse And Simply Ride Not all horses are the same. Some you can get on and easily ride. Some are so green that you could be easily injured if you have little or no riding experience. The ones easy to ride are typically older horses. They have been ridden the most and will be the most forgiving of a beginning rider’s mistakes. The younger horses will be the hardest to ride unless they have been thoroughly broke. Mistake #6 –...

•The Importance Of Habit And Repetition During Horse Training
   by Andy CurryPicture this. You're out feeding your horse. You're petting her, talking to her, and admiring how beautiful she is. Suddenly, you get the urge to get on her and go for a ride. The only thing is, you don't feel like getting the saddle and bridle - so you just jump on...bareback. Now you're sitting on her. Her head is high, her ears are twitching, and she's wondering what's going on. It's boring just sitting on her. You want her to move. So you boot her forward. She moves....

•How To Stop Your Horse From Rearing And What To Do If He Does It Unexpectedly
 by: Andy Curry There is a dangerous problem that horse owners should be very aware of. It’s when a horse stands up on his back legs. It’s called “rearing.” This problem can be quite dangerous and cause severe injuries to the rider and/or horse. Rearing is perhaps a horse’s most effective defense against the rider. It is dangerous in that the horse can fall over backward onto its rider. Because of a horse’s enormous weight this can cripple and even kill the rider. Thus, it is good...