Desensitizing a horse isn’t about shaking a flag until the horse doesn’t move anymore....

Anyway I don’t like that word. I much rather like to talk about teaching my young horse how to be brave. To overcome his/her innate flight instinct. Think, rather than react. The key is to be able to read your horse’s body language and to know precisely when to quit. This is a little moment of today’s session with Tara where I showed her for the first time the flag. Now, she already knows quite a bit about how to be brave. If you want to know more about how to get your scared youngster to this point, check out my video training “Roadmap for Foal to Dream Horse“ where you can find 12 real life trainings sessions with a quite reactive Arabian filly. If you want to know more about how to get your scared youngster to this point, check out my video training “Roadmap for Foal to Dream Horse“ where you can find 12 real-life trainings sessions with a quite reactive Arabian filly. In this video training you can see the real time process of how even a very reac