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Most Equestrian Coaches Don’t Understand Training

Researchers are unimpressed with what Australian equestrian coaches know about training horses.

At Times Horses Simply Can’t Remember

New understanding of what horses can remember offers insights for training horses.

Horses Inspired More With Tasty Rewards

Research by equine scientists in Japan has found that horses can get picky about their rewards.

The Natural Horsemanship Dichotomy

The philosophy behind natural horsemanship poses an incongruous tension between control and freedom, maintains a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Chester in Britain.

Teaching Horses to Keep Calm

Theories abound on how best to help a horse overcome its natural instinct to fear unusual things. Research is now demonstrating which training methods produce the best results.

Positive Reinforcement Has Its Rewards

Does rewarding a horse during training make a difference? Scientists recently sought to answer that question by comparing how horses respond when trained with and without positive reinforcement.

Height Matters to Horses

When learning to recognize something new, how high an object is affects how quickly horses learn.