Essential Tips for Building Trust with Your Horse

A woman wearing a cowboy hat and smiling while petting a gray horse, with a brown horse and a child on horseback in the background. The scene is set during sunset with an outdoor ranch setting, celebrating National Horse Day. Various cowboy boots, sunflowers, and a horseshoe are displayed at the bottom.

Happy Horse day

This post good to read for both National I love horses and National Horse Day.

🌼 Teaching Tips for Kids or New Riders

👋🏼Introducing

  • Walk up to the horse from the front
  • Let the horse get a good look at you.
  • Let it smell your hand  pat it on it Neck
  • Show it that you are not frightened of it.

🏇🏾Quick tips for riding your horse

  • When start to get to know your horse talk to it well riding it.
  • When riding you should trust your horse.
  • When you feel like you falling Lift you push your wight to the
    right, falling right push your Wight to the Lift.

🐎 Around horses & ponies

  • Walk quietly, do not run around the stable and paddock when
    they are around!
  • Never lose your temper around they or get angry. Try to stay
    Calm around them.
  • Speak quietly to them, so they don’t get scary.
  • Walk up to them confidently. If you are nervous, they get nervous
  • Don’t walk behind them.!  
    • If You have to walk behind them talk to them & put you hand on it, slide it down it tail as you go around, so they know you are there.


🐴Horse’s body language.

  • Interested
    • Ear Pricked forward show that the horse is interested in
      Someing or that the horse is expects someing Good.
  • Distracted
    • One Ear to the side show that the horse is distracted by Someing. other than his main object of interest.
  • Anger/Fear
    • Ear laid back show anger or fear. The horse is warning you, or to another horse, that it may kick or bite.

🏃🏼‍♀️‍➡️How fast do a horse go?

We only have three ways of moving Walking, walking fast and running. Horses have four Walking, trotting and cantering and golloping.

Horses on the move

  • Horses walk about as fast as you do, about 4miles per hour (6km/h.)
  • A trotting Horse does about 9 miles per hour (14km/h)
  • A cantering horse can avrage as much as 10 to17 miles per hour(16-27km/h)
  • A golloping horse can tavre 30 miles per hour (50km/h)

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