Articles about training horses

First Lessons
by Ron Meredith
President, Meredith Manor International Equestrian Centre

One of the reasons it's so hard to write about training horses is that everyone wants a recipe. Do this, then that, then this other thing. Use such and such equipment, do so and so exercises a certain number of times. Follow the right steps and you're guaranteed a trained horse.

The problem is that the main ingredients in the recipe--the horse and the handler--are never the same. Horses have different personalities. People have different personalities. Even the same horse and the same handler can be different from day to day. So the only way a recipe can work is if a particular handler has enough common sense to adapt the recipe to where a particular horse is on a particular day.
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