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Happy Halloween! Four Ways to Conquer FEAR On and Around Your Horse
“From time without beginning,” writes Douglas Puterbaugh in his chapter on FEAR in THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF DRESSAGE, “man and horse have shared something in common: an ancient and deeply rooted emotion called fear.” Interestingly, although mankind evolved as a predator and horse hung on in the role of prey, both rely on fear…
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There Are Lots of Things to Fear on Halloween…Don’t Let Your Horse Be One of Them
When you’ve worked with and ridden horses long enough, you can usually easily summon at least one metallic-tasting memory of an instance when you were completely and utterly afraid—afraid of getting kicked, bitten, thrown, hurt…afraid of losing control…afraid of not knowing what to do…afraid of where you were in that moment and where you’d be…
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