{"id":21,"date":"2008-03-10T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-03-10T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T16:44:09","slug":"you-cant-blame-it-on-your-horse-buying-the-right-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/you-cant-blame-it-on-your-horse-buying-the-right-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You Can&#8217;t Blame It On Your Horse&#8221; + &#8220;Buying The Right Horse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/authover.css\" media=\"screen\" \/>\r\n\t       <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/simplemodel.css\" media=\"screen\"\/>\r\n\t          <script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n\tsrc=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery-1.7.2.min.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery.simplemodal.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/authover.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\t\t\t\tvar jq = jQuery.noConflict();\r\n\t\t\t\tfunction openPopup(url,width,height,delay,useajax,iframe,exitt){\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\talert(url);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\tauthover.configure({\r\n\t\t\t\t\tiFrameAttribute : {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"name\" : \"autFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"id\" : \"authFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"src\" : \"http:\/\/wikipedia.com\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"height\" : \"100%\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"width\" : \"100%\"\r\n\t\t\t\t},\r\n\t\t\t\tmodalContent : url,\r\n\t\t\t\twidth : width,\r\n\t\t\t\theight : height,\r\n\t\t\t\tdelay : delay,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupUseAjax: 0,\r\n\t\t\t\ttargetUseIframe: iframe,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupIsRedirect: useajax,\r\n\t\t\t\texitAlertText: exitt\r\n\t\t\t\t});\r\n\t\t\t\tauthover.triggerModal();\r\nreturn false;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/script><p>In This Magazine Issue:<br \/>\n******************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>1. You Can&#8217;t Blame It On The Horse (All The Time)<\/p>\n<p>2. How To Know You&#8217;re Buying The RIGHT Horse<\/p>\n<p>******************************************************************<br \/>\n1. You Can&#8217;t Blame It On The Horse (All The Time)<\/p>\n<p>My friend and horse training guru Andy Curry gives us this report:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s common.<\/p>\n<p>A horse won&#8217;t do somethin&#8217; and it&#8217;s their fault.<\/p>\n<p>Or is it?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You know, a horse is basically perfect in every sense.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean is&#8230;before we get our hands on &#8217;em, they can already do what what we want them to do. (for the most part).<\/p>\n<p>They already know how to back up, move forward, turn, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But when you throw the human in the equation,&#8230;look out.<\/p>\n<p>Everything&#8217;s different.<\/p>\n<p>We think the horse oughta do what we ask because we know what we want&#8230;so why doesn&#8217;t the horse do it?<\/p>\n<p>The lesson is, he &#8220;CAN&#8221; do it, but we just haven&#8217;t explained what we want and how we want it done.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s bascically what training is all about.<\/p>\n<p>First, the horse has to know what you want.<\/p>\n<p>And when you&#8217;re sittin&#8217; there kissin&#8217; to &#8217;em, they&#8217;re trying to figure out what you want.<\/p>\n<p>To make it clear what you want&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do everything you<br \/>\ncan to set your horse<br \/>\nup to successfully do<br \/>\nwhat you asked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That means if you want him to, say, lunge to the left then you better give him a big, convenient opening so he can move that direction.<\/p>\n<p>Make it so danged easy for him to go to left that he does it.<\/p>\n<p>And when he does, let him do it.<\/p>\n<p>Stop kissing to him so he &#8220;clearly&#8221; knows that&#8217;s what you wanted.<\/p>\n<p>This is the case whenever you work with a horse.<\/p>\n<p>Early on, horses don&#8217;t know their leads, don&#8217;t know how to balance under you, so it&#8217;s up to us to stay centered and squared so they can do their job.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the points Kenny Scott reveals in his DVD about controlling all four corners of your horse.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know more about Kenny, click on the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-kennyscott.html\" title=\"Kenny Scott DVD\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kenny Scott DVD<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We must remember that if the horse didn&#8217;t do right,&#8230;\u00a0 whose fault was it?<\/p>\n<p>Did we explain it well enough?<\/p>\n<p>Does he really know what you&#8217;re asking?<\/p>\n<p>Did you get in his way?<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s to blame here?<\/p>\n<p>Our human egos get in the way and fool us into believing the horse is dumb.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He should know that!&#8221;, we angrily say to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;should he?<\/p>\n<p>If it was explained to him day after day through repetition&#8230; then yes!, he should know it as long as he&#8217;s been doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, if your horse isn&#8217;t doing some- thing, it&#8217;s high time we look at ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna tell you something you may not wanna hear.\u00a0 And that is this.<\/p>\n<p>If your horse is doing something you don&#8217;t want him doing, or doesn&#8217;t do something you want him to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The First Place To<br \/>\nLook To Correct The<br \/>\nProblem Is Yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a for instance.<\/p>\n<p>I got an email from a subscriber who said her new horse was &#8220;great for the first 2 weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Slowly and steadily he became pushy and pinned ears at her, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>After checking into it, this horse owner was not taking the leadership role.<\/p>\n<p>She did a few things to kill her position as her horse&#8217;s boss and now the horse was boss.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this horse owner should have read up on her subject and learned as much as she could.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I ain&#8217;t sayin&#8217; a horse&#8217;s problem is always the owner&#8217;s fault.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217; that&#8217;s the first place to look to correct the problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-kennyscott.html\" title=\"Kenny Scott DVD\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kenny Scott DVD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>****************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>2. How To Know You&#8217;re Buying The RIGHT Horse<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been around horses for years, handled many, trained some, took care of &#8217;em, etc&#8230;. then you most likely have a pretty good idea of what to look for in a horse.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve seen many different horses with different dispositions and attitudes, seen sick ones, and probably rode many breeds and have a good deal of understanding about ones you&#8217;d like to have for your own.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; knowledge and experience is invaluable.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you&#8217;re a little green and don&#8217;t know horses that well but you want to get your own&#8230;.\u00a0 how do you choose?<\/p>\n<p>Even a better question&#8230;\u00a0 what questions do you NEED to ask and what considerations are there for picking the right horse?<\/p>\n<p>My Dad used to say &#8220;You can make the right decision, the wrong decision or do nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buyin&#8217; a horse should not be a snap decision if you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re doing.\u00a0 Between less-than-honest sellers, lack of training, bad dispositions, sickness or lameness, etc&#8230;\u00a0 there&#8217;s LOTS of ways to make the wrong choice!<\/p>\n<p>And, if you don&#8217;t know the costs involved beyond buyin&#8217; the horse, you just might be in for a real surprise.\u00a0 Keeping horses isn&#8217;t cheap&#8230; even if you already have your own place to keep them.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you&#8217;re a parent and your child keeps asking for a pony.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve decided to go ahead &#8211; how do you choose?<\/p>\n<p>So how do you know you&#8217;ve found the right horse for your situation?<\/p>\n<p>You start with some basic questions &#8211; asking yourself first why you want a horse, what you want to do with it, where you&#8217;re going to keep it, how much time you have in your schedule to care for it, etc.<\/p>\n<p>You really need to answer those questions honestly before you proceed.<\/p>\n<p>You then move into the next phase of gaining knowledge about horses, breeds, basic care, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230; owning horses can be great.\u00a0 Millions have horses and love them.\u00a0 But a good percentage of the first-time horse owners wouldn&#8217;t make the same decision if asked.\u00a0 Mostly because they rushed the decision to buy and didn&#8217;t check the horse out enough before they brought &#8217;em home.<\/p>\n<p>If you have your heart set on buyin&#8217; a horse then do it.<\/p>\n<p>Just don&#8217;t do it blindly and hope things will work out.<\/p>\n<p>The worst thing you could do is choose the wrong horse and be disappointed &#8211; or worse either broke or hurt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/HowToBuyAHorse.html\" title=\"How To Buy A Horse\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How To Buy A Horse<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We wrote our new book to help you along the way.\u00a0 This is no hard sell for the book.\u00a0 Buy I promise you that you won&#8217;t be sorry you bought it.\u00a0 Either you get 10 times the value from the book that you pay for it or I&#8217;ll refund your money.<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How To Find, Select And Buy Your First Horse&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/HowToBuyAHorse.html\" title=\"How To Buy A Horse\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How To Buy A Horse<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s it for today&#8230; have a good week.<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe around your horses,<\/p>\n<p>Charlie<\/p>\n<p>**************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>Just learning, or want to learn, to ride?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the best way to start before you mount for the first time.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll learn more in just a few hours than many times the cost of the book in lessons.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a substitute for lessons &#8211; it just gets you started before you start.\u00a0 Your instructor will be impressed with your knowledge&#8230;\u00a0 a nice position to be in!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/RidingBook.html\" title=\"Horseback Riding: The Complete Beginner's Guide\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Horseback Riding: The Complete Beginner&#8217;s Guide<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**************************************************************<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In This Magazine Issue: ****************************************************************** 1. 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