The secret to training a horse is absolute trust. Being a prey animal, horses, by nature, fear humans. We are predators and, without trust, a horse will always be “on edge.” They are big, powerful and quick, and more concerned with their welfare than yours.
I first became interested in the Spanish vaquero’s horse training methods when I was a teen in the early 1950s and read Ed Connell’s “Hackamore Reinsman” series of articles in Western Horseman Magazine. The articles made a
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