Vascer Quarter Horses

When people see something that looks on the surface to be a great trick, it takes away from the real needs and quality of what should be going on. I don’t want to bag anybody, but you go to any horse expo or demonstration and there’s a lot of bridleles, liberty riding going on, and all this sort of stuff – but you still don’t see those horses any happier than if you had the biggest bit and biggest pair of spurs you could ride in. Their feelings about what’s going on would be the same in those horses. And I think when you present these things that make people go: “Oh WOW isn’t that amazing!” it overshadows the real horsemanship that’s meant to be going on underneath all that. It muddies the waters in people’s minds what is the difference between good horsemanship and what’s good showmanship. That’s always bothered me so we’re deliberately avoided the expos.


Ross Jacobs, www.goodhorsemanship.com.au

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Snow, American Quarter Horses and Australian Cattle dogs…

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Some more ol’ cowboy wisdom:
Every path has a few puddles.

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… bi postavili svojih 12 pravil za treniranje nekako takole:

12. Bodi objektiven

Ko delava skupaj, upoštevaj, kaj vidiš; ne razlagaj si stvari po svoje. Če me po zadnjih nogah oplazi trebušni jermen, bom seveda dvignil nogo. Prosim, zavedaj se, da sem to storil, ker sem se ustrašil. Ker ne vidim, kaj je pod mojimi nogami, bom brcnil v tisto, kar je napadlo moje noge. Gre za refleksni odziv. Potrebujem minuto, da spoznam, da mi nič ne grozi; potem noge seveda ne bom več dvigoval. Če se boš razjezil, ker boš mislil, da hočem brcniti tebe, imava težavo. Ko me boš bolje spoznal, boš razumel zakaj počnem določene stvari in mi boš pomagal premagati moje strahove.

Cherry Hill, How to Think Like a Horse (Storey Publishing, 2006)

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Z veliko potrpežljivosti in predvsem spoštovanja konjevih pravil za treniranje se tudi najbolj “plašen raček” razvije v “samozavestnega laboda” ~ in v procesu pridobljene izkušnje obeh so neprecenljive za osebno rast vseh, ki se jih zgodba dotika

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