Ride the Right Horse by Yvonne Barteau

Author:Yvonne Barteau
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Published: 2007-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

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Horses can’t learn anything if there is no reward.

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So what was the solution? Should I not soften or reward him when he complied, for fear I could not regain his attention? That didn’t seem right. Horses can’t learn anything if there is no reward, and it doesn’t have to be treats: it just has to be something that remains consistent and reliable. If I couldn’t soften when he obeyed a rein aid, I would certainly be heading down the wrong road. He seemed almost to want me to bully him, and while this is necessary when a horse is trying to bully you or you are correcting misbehaviors, it is not advisable as a daily training practice and was therefore not an option.

The physical work of the FEI movements was much easier for Angelo than the required mental discipline; many horses that I had worked with were completely the opposite. I had trained and known numerous horses by this time, and none as talented as Angelo, so why had they all made more progress than he?

At this writing Angelo is still with us. Kim graciously decided to jump in and put more miles of basics on him. Kim is a much more methodical and systematic trainer than I am, and this tedious and at times unrewarding routine work does not frustrate him the way that it does me. Angelo has continued to make progress; in fact my daughter Kassie will debut him at Grand Prix this season. Angelo is a case of a super-talented horse who will never reach his full potential. If we had acquired him as a five-year-old, however, I suspect that things would have been different.

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