For starters, they’re beautiful and graceful and a bit mysterious. But there’s more to it than that.
Riding a horse is freedom, power, and speed. It’s sitting high above the world, looking down. And when a girl has a special horse who thinks she’s special too, it’s a friendship and a bond that no human relationship can match.
Some people feel power and freedom by driving a fast car – or a huge truck. But to control a powerful animal who has a mind of its own and can choose to obey or disobey, is an indescribable feeling. They know that the key to success is its reliance on the horse, and his trust in you.
If you learn to communicate with a horse and his co-ready, you've accomplished something that not everyone can win.
Not all girls want to be admitted for another reason, a bit hidden, and this: Sometimes it's also the joy of being able to do better than boys. It is an "up" on children – because horsesrespond to kindness, gentleness, slow movements and soft speech. Some boys can master that, but only some. Usually it’s the girls who can calm a frightened horse or teach him to respond to subtle commands.
This is a sport where size and muscle don’t really matter, so girls can beat boys and young people can beat adults. It all depends on the individual person and their love of horses.
You may watch old Western Movies and think that horses are trained by tying them down, putting on From a chair and went to the horse gives the fight. What used to be. I am sure that many cowboys suffered broken bones in the process, and against a role for the big horses that are strong and brave he was. Or maybe stupid, I'm not sure.
Maybe because we do not hurry more, and perhaps because horses generally not wild populations that have grown to take, but it's not like the horses are often not trained. If you've read the man Whisperer "Horse, you know" thatsome of the old time horsemen resisted the change from “breaking” to gentling a horse, and you also learned that the new way is better.
Now, a young horse is trained almost from birth. He or she is handled by humans, taught to wear a halter and walk quietly alongside a person. Later, training includes working on a long line and learning to walk, trot, gallop, and stop on voice commands. Patience and persistence have become more important than brute force in horse training.
When the horse is old enough, he’s taught to carry a saddle and wear a bridle. Some people use ground driving to teach the horse to respond to commands from the reins before anyone ever gets on its back. To do this, long reins are attached to the bridle and run through stirrups or a special apparatus around the horse’s barrel. That keeps the reins up closer to where a riders hands will be once he is ridden.
So, before the horse ever carries a rider, he is used to the equipment, knows something about what is expected, and is not afraid of humans – the time it has been treated gently and quietly.
If the horse is mounted to start the complexities of training, and that's where the sweetness of payment, the patience, really. Sometimes you have a lesson, dozens of times before the horse "is repeated." Do not yell or even brute force will get it quickly.
I'm trying to say that children can do – I say that what really counts in Equestrian Art is yourattitude – not your gender, age, or size. If you can be patient, and gentle, and soft spoken, and persistent – you can learn to train a horse so that he will trust you, and you can trust him.
And then you can ride like the wind!
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