HORSE OWNER'S PRACTICAL HORSE TRAINING COURSE

The Horse Owner's Practical Horse Training Course is a must for the beginning professional and the serious horse owner. You will learn effective, safe ground breaking using proven, gentle, time tested methods anyone can learn. This program is designed to build a solid foundation for your horse's future and your own. If you are already training horses, you can incorporate these methods into any program you may now be using. If you are shoeing horses, this course will help you maintain a long, safe, happy career.

This course is hands-on training. You will have pointed demonstrations, after which you will perform each task demonstrated under the close supervision of your instructors. You will absolutely learn to take a completely unbroken/unhandled horse through all steps necessary to produce a gentle, tractable and willing equine partner, capable of moving on to any training discipline.

LENGTH: 2 WEEKS (60 hours of instruction) 15% classroom, 85% hands-on-work
TUITION: $1,500.00
CLASS DATES: A new class begins every Monday throughout the year
SCHEDULE: Monday though Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

CURRICULUM:

Lectures: (10 hours)

Personality Types of the Horse

Stages of Colt Training

Principals of Horsemanship

Responsibilities of Training - Safety

Diseases and Parasites

Practical Application (50 hours) -
Training previously unhandled horses through:

Halter Breaking - Teaching a horse to lead, load in a trailer, and stand calmly when tied.

Gentling and Sacking Out - Teaching a horse to be unafraid of people and strange objects, noises, the weight of the saddle, bridle, etc.

Teaching a horse to yield to pressure - forward, backward, sideways.

Working at liberty in the round pen - 30ft., 60ft. and 100ft.

Collection - teaching the horse to properly accept the bit and teaching him to properly flex, vertically and laterally.

Driving - Teaching the horse to go forward, turn, stop and back up with the use of long reins before the horse is ridden.

Rehabilitation of Spoiled Horses - Correction of bad habits, determining the source of the horse's problem.

Health Care - An understanding of the basic health care of the horse and how to work out a complete health care program with your veterinarian.

Required Supplies: None. The school will provide horses for the program. If students enrolled in the Horse Owner's Practical Horse Training Course wish to bring their own unbroken horse, they are welcome to do so at no extra charge for the length of their horse training class. Please notify office staff upon enrollment.