Partnering Your Horse by Susan McBane, Maggie Raynor - 9781910016466

Partnering Your HorseAuthor(s): Susan McBane, Maggie Raynor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Quiller Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Kenilworth Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781910016466, 978-1910016466\nSynopsis\nPartnering Your Horse is a guide to horse-appropriate training techniques and the development of mutual trust between horse and rider. The book imparts effective, humane training and conditioning in handling and riding, and combines newer, scientifically proven methods plus long-established 'kinder' techniques. Horses are an enigma. Big, strong, fast prey animals, they are sensitive, lightning reactors to danger. If they connect that danger to us, they can lose their faith in us forever. Despite this, they are 'trainable', capable of forming strong bonds with humans they trust, and welcoming us into their society as associates and even friends, although not as bosses or masters as previously believed, a concept alien to them. However, we need to work at maintaining their wel.