{"id":82,"date":"2008-10-31T11:19:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-10-31T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:19:54","slug":"what-baseball-and-horses-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/what-baseball-and-horses-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"What Baseball and Horses Have In Common"},"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><strong>&#8220;What Baseball and Horses Have In Common&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The World Series is over and the Phillies just won&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Ahh..good ol&#8217; American Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s as much an American heritage<br \/>\nas apple pie.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something that occasionally<br \/>\nhappens in baseball that happens with horses.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called balking.<\/p>\n<p>In baseball, the pitcher balks when<br \/>\nhe kind of pauses and stops in the middle of a throw.<\/p>\n<p>Probably happens from being confused<br \/>\nabout something.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, horses balk when con-<br \/>\nfused too.<\/p>\n<p>It also happens from mismanagement,<br \/>\nexcitement, and not knowing how to move or pull.<\/p>\n<p>Balking &#8216;rarely&#8217; happens from unwillingness<br \/>\nto do what the horse understands.<\/p>\n<p>What kind of horse is most likely to balk?<\/p>\n<p>High spirited ones.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because their riders (or drivers) don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nhow to properly manage them.<\/p>\n<p>I like to drive my horses when I train them.<\/p>\n<p>I also like to hitch &#8217;em up to a cart or<br \/>\nwagon and teach them to pull.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great way to get them in shape and train them.<br \/>\n(But not totally necessary)<\/p>\n<p>But when you drive a horse either from the<br \/>\nground or hitched, you have to manage them carefully.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, if you have a free horse in a team,<br \/>\nhe may be so anxious to start that when he hears &#8216;step&#8217;<br \/>\nhe may move with a jump.\u00a0 He won&#8217;t move the load he&#8217;s<br \/>\npulling but give him such a jerk on his shoulders<br \/>\nthat he&#8217;ll fly backward and stop the other horse.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t you just see that happening.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re driving a horse from the ground you could<br \/>\naccidentally achieve the same effect by holding<br \/>\nthose reins too tight and blocking forward movement.<\/p>\n<p>So be careful not to get in the horse&#8217;s way.<br \/>\nAsk him to do what you want and let him do it.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find nearly every horse is willing to do<br \/>\nwhat you ask.\u00a0 But if we get in his way,<br \/>\nhe&#8217;ll get confused.<\/p>\n<p>And if he gets confused, we sure can&#8217;t be hollering<br \/>\n&#8216;GET UP!,\u00a0 GET UP!&#8217;.\u00a0 We have to manage the situation<br \/>\nand realize he&#8217;s just not gettin&#8217; it.<\/p>\n<p>So,&#8230;we help him get it.\u00a0 We talk to the horse<br \/>\nlike we&#8217;d talk to a gentleman.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what the body language of a<br \/>\nbalking horse looks like?<\/p>\n<p>They turn their head and look back at you<br \/>\nas soon as they&#8217;re confused.<\/p>\n<p>Why do they do that?\u00a0 Often it&#8217;s because they<br \/>\nare afraid of what is behind them.<\/p>\n<p>This is either from being whipped, chastised, or<br \/>\nother ways of mishandling.(such as being yelled at)<\/p>\n<p>So how do you fix this?<\/p>\n<p>Chill out, for one.<\/p>\n<p>Use kind treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Caress him kindly.\u00a0 And if he doesn&#8217;t understand<br \/>\nwhat you want him to do, he won&#8217;t be so excited<br \/>\nas to do the wrong thing from fear.<\/p>\n<p>As long as you keep calm and keep his<br \/>\nexcitement down, he&#8217;ll soon forget about it and<br \/>\nlearn to pull a wagon or cart or drive on the<br \/>\nground just fine.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a horse training principle<br \/>\neveryone should understand.<br \/>\n(This comes direct from the Jesse Beery Manual):<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Almost every wrong act the horse<br \/>\nmakes is from mismanagement, fear,<br \/>\nor excitement.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And it is those three things that we as their<br \/>\nowners can control and can work through.<\/p>\n<p>JJ Rydberg and Diana Quintana both show in their<br \/>\nvideos how to keep the horse&#8217;s excitement level controlled.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more about JJ and Diana if you like<br \/>\nby clicking on the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-dianaq.html\" title=\"See Diana Quintana's DVD HERE\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>See Diana Quintana&#8217;s DVD HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-jjrydberg.html\" title=\"See J.J. Rydberg's DVD Info HERE\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>See J.J. Rydberg&#8217;s DVD Info HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of their common rules is: Teach them at the<br \/>\nwalk &#8211; they learn easier at the walk.<\/p>\n<p>Then you can move to the trot.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, stay calm.\u00a0 Go slow.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no hurry&#8230;right?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s is for today&#8230;\u00a0 stay safe with your horses.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie<\/p>\n<p>P.S. 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